Jphysiol -- Wellcome and NIH

Wellcome Trust-funded researchers can publish in The Journal of Physiology and Experimental Physiology

The Wellcome Trust requires electronic copies of any research papers that have been accepted for publication in a peer-reviewed journal, and are supported in whole or in part by Wellcome Trust funding, to be deposited into PubMed Central (or UK PubMed Central once established). This requirement will apply to all grants awarded after 1 October 2005 and, from 1 October 2006, to all grants regardless of award date. The Trust will provide Grant Holders with additional funding to cover the costs of open access publishing so that they can post their articles on PubMed Central immediately on publication. This funding will be provided for articles reporting research that was part-funded by Wellcome.

The Journal of Physiology and Experimental Physiology offer authors an open access publishing option through Blackwell Publishing’s Online Open service (http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/static/onlineopen.asp).

To apply for funding to make your paper in The Journal of Physiology or Experimental Physiology open access through Online Open, please contact your institution's Research Office or The Physiological Society Publications Office (journals{at}physoc.org) for advice

NIH-funded authors and The Journal of Physiology and Experimental Physiology

From 2008, the NIH is mandating grant-holders to post their published papers in PubMed Central within 12 months of publication. All Journal of Physiology and Experimental Physiology articles are free to all readers 12 months after publication. Therefore NIH-funded authors will not need to pay an open access fee to publish in the journals and do not infringe journal copyright conditions if they submit to PubMed Central 12 months after publication.

The Journal of Physiology is published on PubMed Central and therefore NIH-funded authors will not need to submit their papers to PubMed Central after 12 months.

Experimental Physiology is not published on PubMed Central and therefore NIH-funded authors will need to submit their papers to PubMed Central, as required by the terms of their grant (http://publicaccess.nih.gov/publicaccess_manual.htm).