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A Wel(l)come development: research funders and open access
Author(s) -
Pinfield Stephen
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
learned publishing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.06
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 1741-4857
pISSN - 0953-1513
DOI - 10.1087/095315106777877548
Subject(s) - publishing , open access publishing , open access journal , work (physics) , business model , computer science , world wide web , political science , business , law and economics , data science , library science , sociology , marketing , engineering , law , mechanical engineering , medline , scopus
This paper discusses the implications of the Wellcome Trust agreement with Blackwell, OUP, and Springer in which authors of accepted papers are able to pay an open‐access publication charge to make their article freely available online. In bringing together flexible licence terms and clear funding streams, the agreement has the potential to be used as a way of migrating towards possible new business models for journal publishing. It also has the potential, if implemented more widely, to deliver greater open access in such a way as to work in the interests of a broad range of stakeholders.