{"id":6151,"date":"2020-05-18T16:51:18","date_gmt":"2020-05-18T15:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/library\/?p=6151"},"modified":"2020-05-18T16:51:18","modified_gmt":"2020-05-18T15:51:18","slug":"charity-open-access-fund-to-end-on-30-september-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/library\/2020\/05\/18\/charity-open-access-fund-to-end-on-30-september-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Charity Open Access Fund to end on 30 September 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Charity Open Access Fund (COAF) is a partnership between six health research charities: \u00a0<strong>Versus<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Arthritis,\u00a0Blood Cancer UK, British Heart Foundation, Cancer Research UK, Parkinson&#8217;s UK and the\u00a0Wellcome\u00a0Trust.<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" data-attachment-id=\"6152\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/library\/2020\/05\/18\/charity-open-access-fund-to-end-on-30-september-2020\/presentation1-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2020\/05\/Presentation1.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1280,720\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Presentation1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2020\/05\/Presentation1-1024x576.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2020\/05\/Presentation1-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6152\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2020\/05\/Presentation1-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2020\/05\/Presentation1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2020\/05\/Presentation1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2020\/05\/Presentation1.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Queen\u2019s is one\nof&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/wellcome.ac.uk\/funding\/guidance\/coaf-funded-research-organisations\">36\nUK universities and research institutes<\/a>&nbsp;that receives an annual open\naccess block grant allocation to meet the cost of article processing charges\n(APC\u2019s) for research articles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>COAF relies on all partners sharing a common open access\n(OA) policy. This will no longer be the case from January 2021 when the Wellcome\nTrust implements its&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/wellcome.ac.uk\/grant-funding\/guidance\/open-access-guidance\/open-access-policy\">Plan\nS-aligned OA policy<\/a>. Consequently, COAF will end on 30 September 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The remaining five health research charities remain\ncommitted to open access and will&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/wellcome.ac.uk\/sites\/default\/files\/charity-open-access-fund-support-for-open-access-costs.pdf\"><strong>continue to fund open access\ncosts<\/strong>&nbsp;[PDF 68KB]<\/a>&nbsp;for the researchers they support post\nSeptember 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For further information on \u2018gold\u2019 open access funding please\nvisit the Open Access&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/libguides.qub.ac.uk\/c.php?g=322847&amp;p=2208007\">webpages<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Charity Open Access Fund (COAF) is a partnership between six health research charities: \u00a0Versus\u00a0Arthritis,\u00a0Blood Cancer UK, British Heart Foundation, Cancer Research UK, Parkinson&#8217;s UK and the\u00a0Wellcome\u00a0Trust. Queen\u2019s is one of&nbsp;36 UK universities and research institutes&nbsp;that receives an annual open &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/library\/2020\/05\/18\/charity-open-access-fund-to-end-on-30-september-2020\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":193,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-6151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-updates","tag-open-access"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9XNlm-1Bd","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/193"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6153,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6151\/revisions\/6153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}