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Dunhill Medical Trust

Funding Body Agreement

The Dunhill Medical Trust (DMT) grantees whose proposals were submitted from 2008 onwards are required to submit an electronic copy of the final manuscript of their research papers to PubMed Central (PMC) or UK PubMed Central (UKPMC) within six months of publication.

Elsevier has established a funding body agreement with DMT to help authors publishing in Elsevier journals comply and to facilitate a successful implementation of their policy. Details about how to comply are outlined below.

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For compliance queries please email fundingbodies@elsevier.com
For more information read Dunhill Medical Trust's open access policy

Publishing gold open access

Dunhill Medical Trust - funded authors are free to choose the (gold) open access option offered by Elsevier. Authors can comply by publishing in either an Elsevier Open Access Journal or in a subscription journal via our Open Access Article program.

To provide open access, a publication fee needs to be met for each article published open access. For information about specific open access publication fees, please refer to the individual journal 's guide for authors.

Upon final publication, Elsevier will immediately send to UKPMC the final published journal article (PJA) as it appears on ScienceDirect. PMC and PMC mirror sites will also link directly to this same article on Elsevier’s websites.

All articles published open access have permitted reuse which is determined by the author's choice of user license.

Publication fees

The funding provided will be in the form of a one-off sum that will be added to the grant awarded by DMT and the amount will be on a sliding scale dependent on the size of the grant, i.e:

Grants up to £50,000 - £1,000, Grants from £50,000 to £100,000 - £2,000, Grants over £100,000 - £3,000.

Please Note: Applicants are not required to apply for this funding. It will be automatically added to all research project and programme grants awarded by DMT. Grant holders will however be expected to account in their final report for their use of the funding provided and will be required to provide evidence that publications arising from the work funded are available on open access site(s). (see the DMT website).

Please refer to the individual journal's guide for authors for the specific open access publication fee for your chosen journal.

Green open access

Dunhill Medical Trust funded authors, who do not have funds available for gold open access can self-archive their accepted author manuscript on Europe PMC after the embargo period for their specific journal has expired.

Click here for a list of embargo periods (PDF).
Permitted reuse of posted manuscripts and additional terms and conditions can be found online.