Wellcome has published a set of requirements for open access publications, which will come into force next spring.
The policy outlines what is required of publishers in order to receive article processing charges (APCs) from the charity. These include uploading articles to PubMed Central (PMC), making updates available to PMC if they are corrected or retracted, publishing content under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence (CC BY) and offering a reimbursement policy for APCs.
Publishers are requested to sign up to the requirements by December 16, 2016, and they will come into force on April 1, 2017. Wiley, Springer Nature, OUP, Royal Society and PLOS, who combined publish almost 50% of Wellcome funded research outcomes, have all committed to signing up to the requirements.
Charity Open Access Fund (COAF) members Cancer Research UK, British Heart Foundation and Parkinson's UK will also apply the same requirements for outcomes of research they have funded. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation introduced the requirements in their Open Access Policy in January 2015, which come into full effect in January 2017.
Since 2006 Wellcome has worked with the publishing and research communities to champion unrestricted access to research, and accelerate the rate at which new discoveries can be applied to improve health. Its open access policy aims to ensure publications can be accessed, read and built upon.
The move to produce a set of publisher requirements came following an analysis by Wellcome of the number of articles which were non-compliant with their open access policy.
Sector bodies and research associations Jisc, SCONUL, UKCoRR and RLUK are also supportive and will help to promote these requirements amongst the research community.
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