Wellcome and COAF open access spend 2015-16 | Wellcome
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Summary:
"This is our analysis of the spending by organisations that received a grant from the Charity Open Access Fund (COAF) between October 2015 and September 2016.
We ask all institutions in receipt of a grant from COAF to provide details about their open access (OA) publications and their associated article processing charges (APCs). It covers research funded by:
- Arthritis Research UK
- Breast Cancer Now
- Bloodwise
- British Heart Foundation
- Cancer Research UK
- Parkinson’s UK
- Wellcome.
This summary provides details of the costs of OA publishing incurred by COAF and the extent to which the published articles comply with the COAF OA policy.
Overall, full compliance with the COAF policy – articles freely accessible through Europe PMC and made available under a CC-BY licence – has risen to 91%. This is a significant improvement on last year’s 74%, which we are delighted to see.
The cost of OA publishing continues to rise. While hybrid journals remain more expensive than fully OA journals, the increasing popularity of several high-cost fully OA journals from traditional subscription publishers is contributing to the growing cost."
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