Wellcome Trust extends open access policy to include scholarly monographs and book chapters -- [Library Technology Guides]

"The Wellcome Trust today announces that it is to extend its open access policy to include all scholarly monographs and book chapters written by its grantholders as part of their Trust-funded research. Since 2006, the Trust's open access policy has required that all original research papers funded in whole or in part by the Trust be made available via the Europe PubMed Central repository as soon as possible, and in any event within six months of the date of publication. Last year, the Trust announced that it had strengthened its enforcement of its open access policy. However, key research findings - particularly in the medical humanities - are also often published as scholarly monographs or book chapters, which until now have not been included in the open access policy ..."