The Wellcome Trust has long had an open access policy, expecting all the authors that they fund to make their published outputs available immediately upon publication in an open access form.

However, in recent years they have stepped up their compliance monitoring, not only of their authors’ publishing behaviours, but also of the publishers’ practices subsequent to publication.

This post, published this week, analyses Wellcome Trust open access spending for the year 2013-2014.  It makes fascinating reading.

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