| Name: | Wellcome Trust - (2005) |
| Type: | Funder |
| Institution/funder website: | http://www.wellcome.ac.uk |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Open Access policy: | Requirement |
| Policy link: | http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/doc_WTD002766.html |
| Effective date from: | 2005-10-01 |
| Open Access, how?: | Green route (deposit in repositories), Gold route (recommend OA journal publication) |
| Can requirement be waived by funder?: | No |
| Scope of policy?: | Whole or partial funding |
| Funder pays for publication fees: | Yes, through supplemental funding |
| What must be deposited?: | Articles, Data |
| Versions of papers that may/must be deposited: | Author's peer-reviewed final draft, Publisher's version of record |
| When are accepted peer-reviewed papers to be deposited?: | At time of acceptance |
| Duration of permissible embargo prior papers being made freely available: | 6 months after publication |
| Copyright reservation (funders): | Retain copyright whenever is possible |
| Copyright terms...(text extracted from the policy): | "...(WT) Expect authors of research papers to maximise the opportunities to make their results freely available and, where possible, to retain their copyright..." |
| Where to archive?: | Central or subject repository |
| Name of specified archive: | UK PubMed Central (UK PMC) |
| URL of specified archive: | http://ukpmc.ac.uk/ |
