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On May 1st 2013 [Yorkshire  
Cancer Research](http://www.yorkshirecancerresearch.org.uk/) (YCR)
became the newest member of the [Europe PMC Funders'
Group](http://europepmc.org/Funders/), and we're delighted  
to have them on board. YCR fund cancer research that is carried out by  
world-class scientists and clinicians across Yorkshire, and provide
information  
to help local people beat cancer.

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Closing the gap between the research they fund, and the people  
-- whether in Yorkshire or Uruguay -- who might need to read it,
scientists and  
clinicians funded by YCR will now make their published research articles
freely  
available from Europe PMC as soon as possible, and in any event within
six  
months of publication.

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For more information about joining Europe PMC, visit our  
website:  

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<http://europepmc.org/Joining>  
or email Cecy Marden at c.marden\[at\]wellcome.ac.uk.

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On May 1st 2013 Yorkshire Cancer Research (YCR) became the newest member of the Europe PMC Funders’ Group, and we’re delighted to have them on board. YCR fund cancer research that is carried out by world-class scientists and clinicians across Yorkshire, and provide information to help local people beat cancer.

Yorkshire Cancer Research joins Europe PMC

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Earlier  
this month HEFCE [invited  
advice](http://www.hefce.ac.uk/news/newsarchive/2013/name,78750,en.html)
on developing their open access policy in the post-2014 Research  
Excellence Framework (REF).

Both  
EMBL-EBI, who run the Europe PubMed Central (Europe PMC) service, and
the UK  
members of the Europe PMC Funders' Group, strongly support HEFCE's
movement  
towards requiring that all outputs submitted to the post-2014 REF are
published  
open access. However, both groups also have concerns about HEFCE's
exclusive  
focus on institutional repositories (IRs), and recommend that in
addition to  
IRs HEFCE also include subject repositories, such as Europe PMC, as a
valid  
archive for research submitted to the post-2014 REF.

You  
can read the full EMBL-EBI response
[here](http://europepmc.org/docs/HEFCE_REF_EBI_Response.pdf), and the  
full Europe PMC Funders' Group response
[here](http://europepmc.org/docs/HEFCE_REF_Funders_response.pdf).
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Earlier this month HEFCE invited advice on developing their open access policy in the post-2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF).  Both EMBL-EBI, who run the Europe PubMed Central (Europe PMC) service, and the UK members of the Europe PMC Funders’ Group, strongly support HEFCE’s movement towards requiring that all outputs submitted to the post-2014 REF are published open access.

Institutional and Subject-Specific Repositories: Responding to HEFCE’s Call for Advice on Open Access

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[European Research Council](http://erc.europa.eu/) (ERC)  
announced today that it will participate in the [UK PubMed
Central](http://ukpmc.ac.uk/) (UKPMC) open  
access repository service, joining 18 existing UK and European
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ERC becomes the third European funder to join UKPMC, following Telethon
Italy  
and the Austrian Research Fund.  As a  
result of this participation, the existing funders have agreed that the
service  
will be rebranded as '**Europe PubMed Central**' (Europe PMC) by 1
November  
2012.  A key aim of this initiative is to  
extend the repository further and encourage other European funders of
life  
sciences research to make the outputs of the research they fund freely  
available through Europe
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led by the Wellcome Trust, is comprised of Action on Hearing Loss,
Arthritis  
Research UK, Austrian Research Fund (FWF), Biotechnology and
Biological  
Sciences Research Council, Breakthrough Breast Cancer, British Heart  
Foundation, Cancer Research UK, Chief Scientist Office (Scotland),
Dunhill  
Medical Trust, Marie Curie Cancer Care, Medical Research Council, Motor
Neurone  
Disease Association, Multiple Sclerosis Society, Myrovlytis Trust,
National  
Institute for Health Research, Parkinson's UK and Telethon (Italy).  See
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The European Research Council (ERC) announced today that it will participate in the UK PubMed Central (UKPMC) open access repository service, joining 18 existing UK and European funders[i].The ERC becomes the third European funder to join UKPMC, following Telethon Italy and the Austrian Research Fund.

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Yorkshire Cancer Research joins Europe PMC

Institutional and Subject-Specific Repositories: Responding to HEFCE’s Call for Advice on Open Access

European Research Council renews its commitment to open access by joining Europe PubMed Central