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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#3333FF">We have just published our 2015-16 analysis of the Wellcome/COAF APC spend.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#3333FF">Headlines:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">The total cost of the 3,552 COAF-supported publications was £7.3 million. This is an increase of £1.6m from <a href="https://wellcome.ac.uk/news/wellcome-trust-and-coaf-open-access-spend-2014%E2%80%9315"><span style="color:#003170">2014-15</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#333333;margin-top:3.75pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:white">
<span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">91% of the articles are compliant with the open access criteria. This is a significant improvement on last year’s 74%.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#333333;margin-top:3.75pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:white">
<span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">The cost of open access publishing continues to rise – hybrid journals are more expensive than fully open access journals.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#3333FF">Full report – and dataset – are available from:
<a href="https://wellcome.ac.uk/funding/managing-grant/wellcome-and-coaf-open-access-spend-2015-16">
https://wellcome.ac.uk/funding/managing-grant/wellcome-and-coaf-open-access-spend-2015-16</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#3333FF">Regards<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#3333FF">Robert<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Robert Kiley <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Open Research – Development Lead<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Wellcome Trust<br>
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Twitter @robertkiley</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#3333FF"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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