Wellcome Trust Funds Open Access
The Wellcome Trust has taken a number of major steps to promote open access. The Trust (an independent biomedical research funding charity which currently spends over £400 million each year) announced that it was working with the National Library of Medicine in the U.S. to establish a European site for PubMed Central. It also announced a new policy whereby “Wellcome Trust grantees will be required to deposit an electronic version of their peer reviewed research articles in PubMed Central (or the European PMC, once established) no later than six months after the date of publication.” (For further information: http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/doc_WTX022827.html)
[SPARC e-news, October-November 2004, http://www.arl.org/sparc]
