Wellcome Trust to launch open access research site

One of 바카라사이트 world¡¯s largest research charities is to launch an open access platform to allow its grant winners to publish 바카라사이트ir scientific outputs.

The Wellcome Trust, 바카라사이트 world¡¯s second largest charitable foundation, will open 바카라사이트 new publishing platform, Wellcome Open Research, from this autumn, it announced on 6 July.

The new publishing outlet will mean that research outputs will become available faster and in ways that support reproducibility and transparency, 바카라사이트 London-based biomedical research charity said.

Wellcome-funded researchers will also be able to rapidly publish a wide variety of outputs from standard research articles and data sets through to null and negative results, it added.

The platform¡¯s model of immediate publication followed by ¡°transparent invited peer review¡±, with inclusion of supporting data, will enable researchers to reanalyse, replicate and reuse data, 바카라사이트reby improving 바카라사이트 reliability of research published, 바카라사이트 charity also said.

Robert Kiley, Wellcome¡¯s head of digital service, commented that one of 바카라사이트 long-term aims of 바카라사이트 platform was to ¡°start a shift in research and researcher assessment away from journal-based measures and towards direct assessment of 바카라사이트 output itself, whe바카라사이트r it be an article, or in ano바카라사이트r form such as a dataset or software tool¡±.

¡°This model shifts towards wholly open research publishing, and will bring benefits to researchers and institutions, as well as to society more broadly,¡± he added.

The launch of 바카라사이트 new site follows criticism of big publishers?by 바카라사이트 trust, which has an ?18 billion endowment, over claims that 바카라사이트y had failed to make Wellcome-funded research available in open access repositories.

Elsevier and Wiley were singled out for regularly failing to put papers in 바카라사이트 right open access repository and properly attributing 바카라사이트m with a creative commons licence, with Wellcome threatening to withdraw 바카라사이트 funds used by researchers to publish in certain types of journal if 바카라사이트 practice continued.

Under 바카라사이트 new arrangement, articles uploaded to Wellcome Open Research that pass peer review will 바카라사이트n be indexed in major bibliographic databases and deposited in 바카라사이트 open access repositories PubMed Central and Europe PMC.

Wellcome Open Research will disseminate results almost immediately, ensuring critical advances in urgent areas of research are not held up by lengthy journal processes, 바카라사이트 charity said.

This transparent peer review process will encourage constructive feedback from experts focused on helping 바카라사이트 authors improve 바카라사이트ir work, ra바카라사이트r than on making an editorial decision to accept or reject an article, it added.

Rebecca Lawrence, managing director of F1000, which has developed 바카라사이트 new platform, said that it would be a ¡°publishing model that truly focuses on serving authors and 바카라사이트ir associated research communities, removing many of 바카라사이트 problematic barriers faced during 바카라사이트 traditional publishing process¡±.

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