RE: Open access: a must for Wellcome Trust researchers

["Kiley ,Mr Robert" <r.kiley@wellcome.ac.uk>]

Anthony

Thanks for your comments - let me try to clarify the Wellcome Trust
position:

1. The policy applies to peer-reviewed, original (primary) research
publications that have been supported, in whole or in part, by the
Wellcome Trust.  The "final manuscript of an author's research paper" is
the final version that is accepted for journal publication, and includes
all modifications from the publishing peer review process in a final
version as edited by the author.  This version may be in, say, a Microsoft
Word or Word Perfect format.  This is the minimum standard that is
acceptable to fulfil the Wellcome Trust Grant Conditions.

However, authors should note that journals' own SGML/XML and PDF versions
would be the preferred version to be deposited, where authors' agreements
with journals allow this.

2. To this end, we encourage authors to publish their research in open
access journals, which would allow the deposition of the final journal
copy edited version in PMC. Articles published in OA journals (for example
the BMJ or the "author/funder pays") should be made available in PMC at
the time of publication and in most cases the journal will automatically
make the deposition into PMC.

3. In cases where the journal is in a "hybrid mode" - some articles are
OA, and some are not (e.g. journals in the Springer Open Choice
programme), we would insist that on those occasions where the Trust had
met the OA costs, then the final, journal copy-edited version, should be
deposited in PMC.  In such cases, access to these papers should not be
embargoed for 6 months.

Robert

Robert Kiley
Head of Systems Strategy & Acting Librarian
Wellcome Library.
Library Web site: http://library.wellcome.ac.uk

-----Original Message-----
[mailto:owner-liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu]On Behalf Of Anthony Watkinson
Sent: 04 October 2005 22:50
To: liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu
Subject: Re: Open access: a must for Wellcome Trust researchers

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