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Re: Open access: a must for Wellcome Trust researchers

Not so.

Many worried authors have pointed out to our members that, despite what
the Wellcome Trust says on its website, it has in fact contacted existing
grant recipients requiring them to deposit their articles; many of these
authors already have articles in press or published. I am advising
publishers to tell these authors that they are not obliged to comply, as
the retrospective policy does not come into force for a year. However, I
think this is in very bad faith (particularly given the assertions below)
and I call on Wellcome to desist and indeed to contact all the pre-1 Oct
grant recipients they have already approached, retracting this apparent
requirement.

Sally

Sally Morris, Chief Executive
Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers
Email: sally.morris@alpsp.org

----- Original Message ----- From: "Kiley ,Mr Robert" <r.kiley@wellcome.ac.uk>
To: "David Goodman" <David.Goodman@liu.edu>; <liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu>; <liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2005 11:58 AM
Subject: RE: Open access: a must for Wellcome Trust researchers

Re: Sally's comment that the Wellcome Trust "appears to be inciting
(nay, forcing) its researchers to breach the terms of the contracts some
of them they may have signed with publishers."

The simple fact is that the Trust's grant conditions apply to
researchers and their institutions long before any subsequent decisions
are taken about where to publish the results or what the copyright
arrangements for publication may be.  It is not possible to breach the
terms of contracts that do not yet exist: in what way, therefore, is the
Trust forcing its researchers to breach copyright agreements?

Robert Kiley

Head of Systems Strategy & Acting Librarian
Wellcome Library.
210, Euston Road, London. NW1 2BE
Tel: 020 7611 8338; Fax: 020 7611 8726; mailto:r.kiley@wellcome.ac.uk
Library Web site: http://library.wellcome.ac.uk