How to get open access funding
Wellcome-funded authors can access funds to cover open access publishing costs for research papers.
Wellcome-funded researchers can access funds to cover open access publishing costs for research papers.
How you get this funding depends on whether the organisation in which you’re based receives open access block grant funding.
These organisations have a block award to cover open access publishing costs.
Each organisation has its own guide which can be accessed from the links below.
- Aberdeen University
- Babraham Institute
- Bath University
- Birmingham University
- Birkbeck College, University of London
- Bristol University
- Cambridge University
- Cardiff University
- Crick Institute
- Dundee University
- Durham University
- East Anglia University
- Edinburgh University
- Exeter University
- Glasgow University
- Institute of Cancer Research
- Imperial College London
- Keele University
- King’s College London
- Leeds University
- Leicester University
- Liverpool University
- Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
- London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
- Manchester University
- Newcastle University
- Nottingham University
- Oxford University
- Pirbright Institute
- Queen Mary College, University of London
- Queen’s University of Belfast
- Royal Veterinary College
- Sheffield University
- Southampton University
- St Andrews University
- St George’s, University of London
- Strathclyde University
- Sussex University
- University College London
- Warwick University
- York University.
If you’re at an organisation that doesn’t receive open access funding, please email the following details to openaccess@wellcome.org:
- your current employing institution
- title of the paper
- Wellcome grant reference number
- journal title
- proposed date of publication
- cost of the open access fee.
Open access block grant funding does not cover the cost of open access publication fees for Wellcome-funded scholarly monographs and book chapters.
To be reimbursed for these costs, please email the following details to openaccess@wellcome.org:
- your current employing institution
- title of the monograph or book chapter
- Wellcome grant reference number
- publisher name
- proposed date of publication
- cost of the open access fee.
We will supplement your research grant and your organisation will be able to claim reimbursement for these additional costs in the usual way.
We will also provide open access funding when a research grant has ended.
You can’t use this funding to cover non-open access publication costs, including page charges and/or costs for colour prints for your original research papers.
Where a paper is from research supported by more than one funding agency, all of which have open access mandates, then the open access publication costs should be split proportionately in line with the funders’ relative contributions. This should be agreed by the paper’s authors.
Organisations should charge the proportional costs to the appropriate funder.
If research funders don’t mandate open access, or if Wellcome is the lead funder on a piece of research, we’re willing to meet the full open access fee.
Contact us if you have a question about open access.