Publications Policy |
Open Access Archiving |
 | Whether to Archive: |
* Requires deposition in Open Access archives |
| What to Archive: |
* Peer-reviewed publications
* Publisher's version and/or Author's final version
* PDF file (Preferred) |
 | When to Archive: |
* When accepted for publication
* Acceptable embargo: up to 6 months after publication |
| | Where to Archive: |
* In named repositories...
* PubMed Central (Alternative)
* Europe PMC (Required) |
| | Archiving Conditions: |
* The Wellcome Trust [2006] encourages authors to retain their copyright of their publications |
Open Access Publishing |
| Whether to Publish: |
* Encourages publication in Open Access publications |
| | Where to Publish: |
* as an article with immediate paid-for open access (Optional) |
| | Publishing Conditions: |
* Costs of open access publication may be reimbursed by the Wellcome Trust [2006] |
General |
| | General Conditions: |
* Effective for all new projects from 01-Oct-2005
* Effective for all current projects from 01-Oct-2006
* The Wellcome Trust [2006] encourages compliance for all earlier projects
* Applies to all projects funded totally or partly by the Wellcome Trust [2006]
* Submission must be made via Europe PMC plus
* Wellcome Trust strongly encourages the use of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (CC-BY)
* Encourages authors and publishers to license research papers so they may be freely copied and re-used (for example, for text- and data-mining purposes), provided that such uses are fully attributed
* Wellcome Trust prefers Publisher Open Access Options over archiving the author manuscript |
| | Policy Links: |
* Policy information
* Grant Conditions
* Authors' FAQ
* CC-BY FAQ |
Data Archiving Policy |
| Whether to Archive: |
* Requires deposition in Open Access archives |
| | What to Archive: |
* Research data |
| When to Archive: |
* Immediately after publication of results |
| | Where to Archive: |
* Not specified |
| | General Conditions: |
* Applies to research where the generation of datasets could be shared for added benefit
* Users of data are expected to acknowledge sources of data and abide by terms and conditions under which they accessed the original data |
| | Policy Links: |
* Policy
* Q&A Document |
