Re: Open access: a must for Wellcome Trust researchers

["Anthony Watkinson" <anthony.watkinson@btopenworld.com>]

I think many reading this posting will be interested to learn from Mr.
Kiley whether authors are being compelled to deposit the accepted version
of their paper or the final version as published.

The Position statement suggests the former version is what is wanted from
authors - see http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/doc_wtd002766.html.

The grant conditions uses the word "final manuscript" which one might
assume would refer to the final version, i.e. after further editorial
alterations and copy editing, that the publisher of the journal actually
makes available on publication. However the relevant clause (6 iii) points
to the Position statement.

Perhaps the word "manuscript" is the key?

Anthony Watkinson

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kiley ,Mr Robert" <r.kiley@wellcome.ac.uk>
To: <liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu>
Sent: Monday, October 03, 2005 2:37 PM
Subject: Open access: a must for Wellcome Trust researchers

> The Wellcome Trust has become the first scientific research funder to
> insist that papers emanating from its grant awards are placed in an open
> access repository.
>
> >From the 1st October 2005 it will become a condition of funding, that
> papers will have to be posted on PubMed Central (PMC)- the free-to access,
> life sciences archive developed by the National Institutes of Health - and
> made accessible within 6 months of publication. To facilitate this, the
> Wellcome Trust has - with the help of NIH - established a manuscript
> submission system, through which papers accepted for publication in a
> peer-reviewed journal can be deposited in PMC.
>
> >From the 1st October next year all existing Trust grant holders will have
> to deposit future papers into PubMed Central. This delay will allow
> existing grant holders time to adjust to the new policy and let us know
> what problems - if any - they may experience, affording us time to
> overcome them. During this time the Trust, working in partnership with
> other UK life sciences funders, plans to establish a UK version of PubMed

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