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Wellcome Trust Open Access (OA) Policy: significant changes from 01 January 2021

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The new Wellcome Trust Open Access (OA) Policy will apply to any article that includes original, peer-reviewed research and is submitted for publication from 1 January 2021.

Changes in a nutshell

  1. No embargoes accepted
  2. All research articles must be openly licensed
  3. Wellcome no longer providing funding for Article Processing Charges (APCs) in subscription/hybrid journals UNLESS they are part of a transformative agreement
  4. 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 all 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 have produced practical guidance on compliance for all WT grant holders and this includes:
  • A summary of the 3 publishing routes to compliance (WT preferred routes are 1 and 3)
  • You need to check with the new journal checker tool to see if your preferred journal enables you to comply with their new policy and if compliant, provides guidance on which publishing route to use, see image below

  • How to ensure compliance by applying a CC BY licence to journal submissions
  • All research articles must include a data availability statement explaining how other researchers can access your data that underpins your publication

PrePrints

Wellcome encourage the following:
  • Posting preprints of their completed manuscripts 
  • Publishing them under a CC BY licence on a platform that is indexed in Europe PMC
Further information and FAQs on their new OA policy can be found in their revised OA guidance document.

Local support 

The University Library manages the University of Leicester Wellcome Trust Open Access Block Grant and we are happy to come to any team meetings or other events and provide further guidance on the new WT OA policy. 

Please apply for GOLD OA funds via the application form, until further notice.

From 04 January 2021 please use the open access helpdesk <openaccess@leicester.ac.uk> to post any queries you may have.

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