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Nature 432, 134 (11 November 2004) | doi:10.1038/432134a; Published online 10 November 2004

Trust gives warm welcome to open access

Jim Giles

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Wellcome Trust endorses public archive for biomedical research.

The Wellcome Trust, Europe's largest research charity, has become the latest grant-giving body to throw down the gauntlet to academic publishers in the debate over open-access literature.All papers reporting the results of research funded by the trust will in future have to be placed in a central public archive within six months of publication, the organization said on 4 November.