Wellcome Trust welcomes UK funding bodies' open access policy | PressReleasePoint

"Commenting on the policy announcement, Dr Jeremy Farrar, Director of the Wellcome Trust, said: 'We believe that providing access to research outputs maximises the resulting benefits to society. This development - which follows the RCUK open access policy - means that virtually all UK-based researchers in receipt of public funding are now operating under an open access mandate.' The funding councils' policy also recognises that subject repositories are an acceptable place of deposit. This feature is especially welcome, as the Trust (along with 24 other research funders) supports the life sciences open access subject repository Europe PubMed Central. The policy was developed following two public rounds of consultations, and inevitably there are some elements which may need to be reconsidered if the full benefits of this policy are to be realised.  The Wellcome Trust welcomes the policy statement from HEFCE and the other three UK higher education funding bodies that requires research outputs (journal articles and conference proceedings) arising from their funding to be made open access in order to be eligible for submission to the post-2014 Research Excellence Framework ..."