Wellcome Trust
Wellcome Trust funded authors must make their research articles freely available through PubMed Central (PMC) and UK PubMed Central (UKPMC) as soon as possible, and in any event, within six months of publication. If an author chooses to publish in a journal offering a paid open access option, the Trust advises authors funded by it to use this option rather than self-archiving. The Trust will pay the article publication charge in order to make the final article fully open access upon publication under a Creative Commons Attribution license (CC BY) which permits broad re-use (including commercial uses) subject to appropriate acknowledgement of the author and title of the original work. Wellcome Trust funded authors can comply with the Trust’s open access policy when publishing in the majority of journals* in Wiley’s open access program (including OnlineOpen) which offer authors the opportunity to publish their articles under a Creative Commons Attribution CC BY license on the payment of an article publication charge. In addition, Wiley will deposit the final PDF and XML of the article to PMC upon publication; this is the final, authoritative version of the article, after peer review, editing, any final corrections, online and print formatting, and publication.
See Authors' FAQs on the Wellcome Trust open access policy for more information.
RCUK
RCUK are seven different research bodies: MRC, BBSRC, AHRC, ESRC, EPSRC, NERC, STFC.
The Research Councils UK's new open access policy states that compliant journals must offer a “pay to publish” (gold OA) option. When an article publication charge is paid the policy also mandates the use of the Creative Commons Attribution license (CC BY).
The majority of journals* in Wiley’s open access program (including OnlineOpen) will offer authors funded by RCUK the opportunity to publish their articles under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license. This will support authors in complying with RCUK requirements. If an author funded by RCUK chooses to publish in a Wiley journal but doesn’t select and pay for OnlineOpen the author will be able to self-archive the accepted version of the article after a 12 month embargo period (starting with first publication online), or after a 24 month embargo for authors funded by AHRC and ESRC. If a journal does not offer an open access option the embargo period is reduced to 6 months (RCUK’s STM Councils) or 12 months for authors funded by AHRC and ESRC.
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*A limited number of society-owned journals have opted out of this new license policy - for more information see Terms and Conditions for OnlineOpen articles not published under a Creative Commons license.
Telethon Italy
Telethon has implemented an Open Access Policy requiring that all grant holders must deposit their research papers in UK PubMed Central (UK PMC). Authors can comply with the Telethon open access policy when publishing in any Wiley Open Access journal or by choosing the OnlineOpen option which is available for the majority of Wiley journals.
For Telethon-funded authors payment for OnlineOpen or Wiley Open Access publication charges will be paid directly by Telethon with no charge payable by the author.
If an author submits an article to a journal that is not currently included in the OnlineOpen program, and the author wishes to opt for OnlineOpen, Wiley will be able to give immediate open access to the published version and deposit in PubMed Central under this payment arrangement with the above
funders. In such cases, when the article has been accepted for publication, the author should inform the editorial office about his or her intention to select OnlineOpen.
NIH mandate
Wiley supports its authors by posting the accepted version of articles by NIH grant-holders to PubMed Central upon acceptance by the journal. The accepted version is the version that incorporates all amendments made during peer review, but prior to the publisher's copyediting and stylistic edits, online and print formatting, citation and other linking, deposit in abstracting and indexing services to enable high-level discovery, and the addition of bibliographic and other metadata. This accepted version will be made publicly available 12 months after publication. The NIH mandate applies to all articles based on research that has been wholly or partially funded by the NIH and that are accepted for publication on or after April 7, 2008.
NIH authors should be aware that they will receive an e-mail request once Wiley has posted the files of their accepted manuscript to the NIH Manuscript Submission system to approve the upload for display on the PubMed Central system. This is a requirement of their grant/affiliation.
The societies for which Wiley publishes may decide on a different policy. Wiley will continue to brief societies on any discussions held with the NIH regarding the processing of the articles, appropriate acknowledgements with citation and linking to the final published version on the publisher's site, and clear licensing terms and conditions for the use of material protected by copyright.
For NIH employees only, Wiley accepts the NIH Publishing Agreement. The article will be identified as a US Government Work and will be in the public domain in the USA. In addition, Wiley will post the accepted version of articles written by NIH employees to PubMed Central, as long as the articles are supplied with the NIH Publishing Agreement attached.
Wiley also offers its OnlineOpen service. Upon payment of the OnlineOpen article publication charge, Wiley will deposit the published version of the article into PubMed Central, with public availability in PubMed Central and on the journal's website immediately upon publication.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) and Wiley have agreed to make post-peer reviewed author manuscripts of articles funded by HHMI publicly available six months following final publication. This policy is implemented for those articles published after October 1, 2007. Wiley will deposit the author's accepted manuscript, i.e. the post-peer-reviewed and accepted but not edited and typeset version, of original research articles on which any HHMI investigator is an author, to PubMed Central (PMC). This arrangement requires nothing of the grantee; identification and deposit are the responsibility of the publisher.
Institutional Policies
The consortia and other organizations listed below are part of a limited pilot agreement with Wiley permitting authors to self-archive the accepted version of their article into their institutional repository, after an embargo period of 12months from the date of first publication on Wiley Online Library, with an embargo of 24 months for articles published in Social Science and Humanities journals. Authors need to contact their librarian for further detail of specific terms and to confirm that their institution is participating in the pilot.
The NorthEast Research Libraries consortium (NERL)
Triangle Research Libraries Network (TRLN)
California Digital Libraries (CDL)
The World Bank
