The new Wellcome Trust Open Access (OA) Polic y will apply to any article that includes original, peer-reviewed research and is submitted for publication from 1 January 2021. Changes in a nutshell No embargoes accepted All research articles must be openly licensed Wellcome no longer providing funding for Article Processing Charges (APCs) in subscription/hybrid journals UNLESS they are part of a transformative agreement New grant condition added, namely, that all WT grant holders automatically grant a CC BY public copyright license to all their future Author Accepted Manuscripts (AAMs) This means that from 01 January 2021 a ll research articles supported in whole, or in part, by Wellcome must be: Made freely available through PubMed Central (PMC) and Europe PMC by the official final publication date Published under a Creative Commons attribution licence (CC BY), unless they have agreed, as an exception, to allow publication under a CC BY-ND licence Guidance and routes to compliance WT h
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