Open access and Plan S: how Wellcome is tackling four key concerns
There has been lots of reaction to the changes we’re making to Wellcome’s open access policy. This is how we are addressing them.
Robert Kiley
David Carr
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Wellcome Trust to launch £200 million investment business for healthcare and life sciences
The Board of Governors of the Wellcome Trust has approved the creation of a new business that will invest in emerging businesses and technologies in the healthcare and life…
Open access policy
What the policy applies to, how to comply, preprints, costs we'll provide and sanctions.
Publishing in hybrid, open access journals
Wellcome's response to some journals discouraging researchers from making Author Accepted Manuscripts open access.
NCT archive preserved by the Wellcome Library documents 60 years of maternity care and childbirth
The archive of NCT (National Childbirth Trust) documenting 60 years of the organisation's history, has been catalogued by the Wellcome Library and is available to access for…
CARB-X announces funding for global scientists racing to discover new antibiotics
Scientists developing promising new antibiotics in India, Ireland, France, Switzerland, the USA and UK are to share up to US$17.6m to speed treatments for the world’s…
Mental Health Award: Finding the right treatment, for the right people, at the right time for anxiety and depression
Wellcome will fund researchers and teams who will validate markers to enable stratification in anxiety and/or depression as early as possible.
Career stage:
- Leading a research programme
- Postdoctoral research
- Postgraduate training
- Returning to research
Where your administering organisation is based:
- Anywhere in the world (apart from mainland China and countries that are the target of international sanctions)
Duration of funding:
Up to 5 years
Scale of funding:
Up to £5 million
Wellcome updates open access policy to align with cOAlition S
Following a large consultation, we have updated our open access (OA) policy so it now aligns with Plan S. The changes will apply from 1 January 2021.
WHO changes guidance on averting maternal deaths after WOMAN trial results
The WHO has published new guidance strongly recommending that intravenous tranexamic acid (TXA) is given to women diagnosed with severe bleeding within three hours of them…
Skilled technicians must be eligible to apply for UK jobs after Brexit
Wellcome is backing calls for the government to ensure post-Brexit immigration rules will allow the UK to continue to recruit highly trained technical staff.
New Research Enrichment awards available for grantholders
Today, we’re pleased to launch new Research Enrichment awards. These extend our dedicated funding for public engagement to encompass open research, and diversity and…
Guidance for research organisations on how to implement responsible and fair approaches for research assessment
Guidance for Wellcome-funded organisations on research assessment approaches.
Grants awarded: Strategic Translation Award
Project summaries of Wellcome grants awarded under the scheme ‘Strategic Translation Award’.
What are drug-resistant infections?
What are drug-resistant infections, who is affected and what we can do to prevent their rise and spread?
Chapter 1: Introduction
This is chapter 1 of the Wellcome Global Monitor 2018.
Figshare: a new way to publish scientific research data
Mark Hahnel, product manager at Figshare, introduces a free service aiming to push forward open access.
Why climate and health data must be equitable
It’s not enough to just have more data on climate and health. There must also be equality of data or data equity. Alice Bell and Felipe Colón, experts in climate change and…
Jane Bracher
What Sex did to the X – and Why
A chromosome account of evolution and revolution
The human X chromosome is about sex and how it evolved. It also has a unique position in the history of genetics – and the…
Chapter 4: Science and society
This is chapter 4 of the Wellcome Global Monitor 2018.
Open research
We want the research we fund – like publications, data, software and materials – to be open and accessible, so it can have the greatest possible impact.