Tag Archives: charity open access fund

What we’re paying for Open Access

The Research Publications team in the Library administers the costs of publishing journal articles Open Access from two funds – COAF and RCUK. The seven partner charities of COAF are members of the Association for Medical Research Charities (AMRC), which supported the … Continue reading

How to make sure the journal you choose will comply with your funder requirements…and so make sure they pay!

A vitally important question, this one. The Wellcome Trust (who last year gave us £208,038 for open access publishing charges) have announced that they will not be paying charges for publications which fail to meet their requirements. has done the legwork … Continue reading

Research data, publishing & the Wellcome Trust

Researchers at the School who are in receipt of funding from the Wellcome Trust and have had an open access fee paid have a number of requirements when publishing. They should license the research papers using the Creative Commons Attribution … Continue reading

Wellcome Open Access policy and non-compliance – the sanctions

Sanctions could be as much as 10% of the value of the grant The Charity Open Access Fund (COAF) is a partnership between Arthritis Research UK, Breast Cancer Now, the British Heart Foundation, Cancer Research UK, Bloodwise, Parkinson’s UK and … Continue reading

Open Access Week 2014

The School celebrated Open Access Week with two 90 minute seminars. The first was held at Keppel Street on Thursday, while the second took place on Friday. Emma Golding, Research Online Administrator kicked off by presenting the Publishing Open Access webpages … Continue reading

Newly launched Charity Open Access Fund (COAF)

From today (October 1 2014), the Charity Open Access Fund (COAF) provides the School with money to cover the cost of article processing charges (APCs) for peer reviewed research, funded wholly or partly by one or more of these UK … Continue reading