Funding Body Requirements for Wellcome Trust OA Policy
Delve into Wellcome Trust's OA policy, focusing on compliance, costs, and sanctions. Explore the key challenges of Open Access and the rationale behind Wellcome's commitment to maximizing research impact through unrestricted access. Learn about compliance rates, gold vs. green OA preferences, and enforcement measures in place.
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Funding body requirements UKSG Webinar 26th March 2014 Robert Kiley Wellcome Trust r.kiley@wellcome.ac.uk @robertkiley
Agenda 1. Discuss the Wellcome OA policy, including compliance, costs and sanctions 2. Look at key challenges relating to OA
Wellcome OA policy any research papers accepted for publication in a peer-reviewed journal, and are supported in whole or in part by Wellcome Trust funding, to be made available through PubMed Central & Europe PMC as soon as possible and in any event within six months of final publication Wellcome Images, CC-BY, L0026422
OA policy why? To maximise the impact of our research spend Wellcome believes that the full research and economic benefit of published content will only be realised when there are no restrictions on access to, and reuse of, this information Wellcome Images, CC-BY, L0038828
Compliance with the Trusts policy % of papers in PMC 80 70 60 Compliance (%) 50 40 % of papers in PMC 30 Linear (% of papers in PMC) 20 10 0 Month
Gold or green? Trust supports green and gold OA, though with a strong preference for gold Gold version of record, zero embargo, re-use rights Green embargoes, author manuscript version limited re-use rights, and reliance upon subscription model and wasn t the point of OA that we want access now with licences that facilitate re-use? Wellcome Images, CC-BY, L0040558
Enforcing compliance Specific sanctions for non- compliance: withholding final payment on grants, until assurance papers listed on final reports are compliant discounting non-compliant Trust-funded papers as part of a researcher s track record requiring previous Trust-funded papers to be compliant before any funding renewals or new grants awards are activated Sanctions have been used
The CC-BY requirement OA policy now specifies that research articles, for which an OA fee is paid, must be licenced using CC-BY Trust believes that full research and economic benefit of published content will only be realised when there are no restrictions on access to, and reuse of, this information Requirement introduced from April 2013 All major publishers now offer CC-BY .though some publishers experiencing some problems in fully implementing this .
Supporting open access Providing dedicated funding to meet OA costs including books and monographs Developing Europe PubMed Central repository with 24 partner funders Funding eLife a top tier, open access journal Advocacy: working with researchers, institutions, and publishers to make OA easier
Funding open access (1) View dissemination costs as an integral cost of funding research Estimate that cost of paying for all Trust papers via the gold route would be 1% to 1.5% of total research spend Average APC 1826 (based on 2012-13 data) 5000 papers a year (5000 x 1826) = 9.13m Research spend (2012) 726m 1.35% but is it a functional market ? Wellcome Images, CC-BY, L0030379
Funding open access (2) Range of APCs paid (2012-13)* 800 685 700 600 491 500 401 Number of articles 350 400 300 200 91 61 100 38 24 2 0 0-1000 1001-1500 1501-2000 2001-2500 2501-3000 3001-3500 3501-4000 4001-5000 5001-6000 Range of APCs paid OA fees paid through block grants, by Wellcome grantees 2012-13 2144 1826 1837 2011-12 1690 1872 1889 2010-11 1301 1808 1875 No. articles Mean OA paid Median OA paid *Data available at: http://goo.gl/uHMJho
OA - key challenges Developing infrastructures linking subject and institutional repositories; systems for paying APC s; determining publisher OA policies Addressing concerns around licences, especially for humanities and social sciences scholars And cost . Wellcome Images, CC-BY, L0026444
Meeting the costs of OA Growing concern that hybrid publishers are being paid twice (subscriptions and APC s) Concern exacerbated by recent study which showed that average APC in a hybrid journal was almost twice that for a born-digital, full open access journal ($2,727 compared to $1,418)
Encouraging a functional OA market: policy options 1. Funding APCs for full OA journals, and only funding APCs for hybrids that offset APC revenues by reducing subscription charges at a local (institutional) level 2. Setting multi-tier price caps for the maximum they will contribute towards an APC for particular journals, based on the quality of services they provide 3. Covering only a fixed percentage of the APC once the APC exceeds a threshold with authors (or institutions) covering the shortfall Trust looking to work with funders to explore these options
Further information http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/openaccess email@ openaccess@wellcome.ac.uk
