Wellcome Trust will penalise scientists who don’t embrace open access

The U.K. Wellcome Trust enters a decisive strategy to promote and sustain their open access policies.

The Wellcome Trust plans to withhold a portion of grant money from scientists who do not make the results of their work freely available to the public, in a move that will embolden supporters of the growing open access movement in science. In addition, any research papers that are not freely available will not be counted as part of a scientist’s track record when Wellcome assesses any future applications for research funding.

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