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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

Library Services over the Xmas Break Most of the Library Research Services Team will out of the office after Friday 18th December and will be back in on Monday 4th January. Online library resources will be available as normal over the Xmas break including the library search for ebooks, books, journal articles etc., A-Z Databases for literature searching and the Figshare Leicester Research Archive for open access research publications, data and theses. The Library Building will be closed on bank holidays but open on other days. Check the Library Opening Hours for full details. You will still be able to browse and borrow books, and book study space s on the days the building is open.  Please remember that the library building is still operating under COVID-19 restrictions , so please: wear a face covering (unless exempt) use the sanitising stations and clean down your study area before and after use bring your University ID for entry no food and drink apart from bottled water the win

Four Leicester academics feature in this year's list of Highly Cited Researchers, compiled by Web of Science.  To be in the list of Highly Cited Researchers you must have published multiple highly-cited papers that rank in the top 1% by citations for field and year in the Web of Science. The four Leicester academics are: Melanie J. Davies, Professor of Diabetes Medicine. Kamlesh Khunti, Professor of Primary Care Diabetes and Vascular Medicine. Alex J. Mitchell, Honorary Professor of Psycho-oncology and Liaison.  Gary B. Willars, Associate Professor, Department of Cell Physiology and Pharmacology. You can read the full list and further explanation here .