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The Reckoning: An Analysis of Wellcome Trust Open Access Spend 2013-14
To help make the costs around open access more transparent, the Wellcome Trust has published details on how much it spent on article processing charges in the year 2013-14. The data also shows to what...
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Assessing the research potential of access to clinical trial data
Access to the data generated by clinical trials is key to realising the full benefits of trials of new health interventions, and a valuable opportunity to generate new insights. There has been much...
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Sharing Research Data to Improve Public Health
An international workshop recently held in Stellenbosch, South Africa explored the opportunities and challenges for enabling greater access to (and use of) data generated by public health and...
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Right to Read, Right to mine
Reading, assimilating and making sense of the mountain of literature available in any scientific field is a daily challenge for researchers. Earlier this year, the Wellcome Trust held a workshop to...
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Image of the Week: MMV’s Malaria Box
Earlier this month, Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV) won the Open Data Innovation Award, one of five open data awards presented by Tim Berners-Lee’s Open Data Institute. Their ‘Malaria Box’ contains...
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The key elements of good data sharing practice
The Wellcome Trust is a leading partner in the Public Health Research Data Forum, which brings together research funders who are committed to increasing the sharing of health research data in ways that...
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Wellcome Trust Research Round-Up: 12.10.15
Our fortnightly round-up of research news from the Wellcome Trust community… Hardwiring happiness? There is a strong relationship between positive behaviour and the wiring of your brain, according to...
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The Open Science Prize: Harnessing the innovative power of open data and content
The Wellcome Trust has teamed up with the US National Institutes of Health and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute to launch a new prize that will seek to unleash the power of open content and data to...
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10 years of Open Access at the Wellcome Trust in 10 numbers
In October 2005 the Wellcome Trust became the first research funder to introduce a mandatory Open Access policy – requiring that all research outputs which arise from its funding must be made open...
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Image of the Week: Prince Iskandar’s horoscope
All this week we’ve been celebrating Open Access week and the 10th anniversary of the Wellcome Trust’s open access policy. Early last year Wellcome Images released an extraordinary collection of over...
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Help us keep vital health data available for research
Individuals’ health data is vital resource for health research and researchers have used this data for decades to understand more about the factors underpinning health and disease. The EU is reaching...
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EU’s Christmas Present for Researchers
Last week the EU institutions finally agreed a new data protection law that will govern the use of individuals’ data across areas such as social media and marketing, and also research. Since...
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2016: A bold new future for research?
2016 is set to be a big year for copyright reform in Europe, with the European Commission working on plans to update copyright law to make it fit for purpose in the 21st century. There are big...
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Sharing data during Zika and other global health emergencies
We’re joining over 30 global health bodies in calling for all research data gathered during the Zika virus outbreak, and future public health emergencies, to be made available as rapidly and openly...
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Wellcome Trust and COAF Open Access Spend, 2014-15
In the “Reckoning” blog post last year – which provided data on how much the Trust spent on open access (OA) publishing and to what extent publishers provided the service we paid for – Robert Kiley,...
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