The Reckoning: An Analysis of Wellcome Trust Open Access Spend 2013-14 | Wellcome Trust Blog

"To help make the costs around open access more transparent, the Wellcome Trust has published details on how much it spent on article processing charges in the year 2013-14. The data also shows to what extent the services the Trust has paid for – i.e. that the final, publisher-formatted versions of articles are freely available in Europe PubMed Central with a CC-BY licence – have been delivered. Robert Kiley, Head of Digital Services at the Wellcome Library, provides an analysis of what the latest data reveals... Once a year we ask all those institutions in receipt of an open access (OA) grant from the Trust to provide details on how the grant has been spent. In addition to simply calculating the total spend, and the average article processing charge (APC), we have, for the first time, done an analysis of the licence types that have been applied to these articles. The licence analysis was undertaken to determine to what extent articles had been published under the Creative Commons Attribution licence (CC-BY), in line with our OA policy ..."