As the theme of 2018 International Open Access Week “Designing Equitable Foundations for Open Knowledge” acknowledges, “setting the default to open is an essential step toward making our system for producing and distributing knowledge more inclusive”.
Following on the heels of Wellcome Trust setting up Wellcome Open Research in 2016 – which publishes scholarly articles reporting any basic scientific, translational and clinical research that has been funded (or co-funded) by Wellcome – a group of funders have come together to launch AMRC Open Research:
This is a platform “for rapid author-led publication and open peer review of research funded by AMRC member charities” – which include Parkinson’s UK, Stroke Association, Alzheimer’s Research UK and many more.
“All articles benefit from immediate publication, transparent refereeing and the inclusion of all source data”
If you are an SGUL researcher in receipt of a grant from these funders, take a moment to look at How it Works.
The AMRC platform levies relatively minimal charges for publication by researchers funded by the participating charities – much lower than the cost of publishing in traditional journals (see Wellcome is going to review its open access policy blog post, March 2018).
Any questions about making your publications open access, please visit our Open Access FAQs or contact us on openaccess@sgul.ac.uk
For any questions about sharing or preserving data, please visit our Research Data Management pages or contact us on researchdata@sgul.ac.uk
Jennifer Smith
Research Publications Librarian
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