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Wellcome Trust: how to comply

If you are the PI on a project funded by the Wellcome Trust first check to see if your publication is covered by the policy via the summary of policies. If so, you should go through the relevant steps in this list before you submit an article to a journal. If you need help with finding any of the information below University repository staff can help you – e-mail then at deposit@lib.gla.ac.uk.

  • Check if the publisher offers a paid open access option (e.g. Blackwell Online Open, Springer Open Choice, Elsevier Agreement).  
  • If an OA option is available, contact Dr John O’Dowd in Research & Enterprise (J.O'Dowd@enterprise.gla.ac.uk) for details of how to proceed. The Wellcome Trust has provided the University with funds to pay for open access publication charges.  
  • Check if the publisher deposits papers in UK PubMed Central (UKPMC ) within six months of publication on your behalf as part of this OA option. If so, you need do nothing further.  
  • If a paid OA option is available, but the publisher will not deposit in UK PubMed Central on your behalf, you need to check if you are permitted to deposit the publisher’s PDF version of your article in UKPMC yourself, and when you may do this.  
  • If this is permitted, go to https://ukmss.mimas.ac.uk/ once your paper has been published to deposit your paper in UKPMC. Note that some publishers require an embargo period before papers may be deposited in UKPMC. Information on the deposit process is available. Alternatively, repository staff in the University Library can deposit the paper on your behalf. Contact them at deposit@lib.gla.ac.uk if you want to choose this option.  
  • If no paid OA option is available, check if the publisher will permit you to deposit your own final version of your article in UKPMC (the SHEPA-RoMEO database of publisher policies or repository staff in the University Library can help you establish this). If this is permitted, follow the steps described in the section above.  
  • If the publisher has no paid OA option, and does not permit the deposition of any version of articles in UKPPMC the Wellcome Trust has a number of suggestions for authors.

For staff in the Faculty of Biomedical and Life Sciences: Repository staff will create a link from the University’s institutional repository, Enlighten, to the record for your paper in UKPMC. This will be done on the basis of lists of publications provided by the Faculty, so you do not need to inform Enlighten staff if your papers are made available in UKPMC.

Note that these the Wellcome Trust requires papers to be made available in UKMPC – depositing a paper in Enlighten, the University’s institutional repository does not meet their requirements. However, the University is keen for as many papers as possible to be accessible from Enlighten, hence the decision to link from Enlighten to papers in UKPMC.