Another society adds a Wellcome-compliant OA option

Robert Kiley, American Society of Hemtaology implements Wellcome-compliant author pays option, UK PubMed Central Blog, June 10, 2009.

The American Society of Hematology - publishers of the journal Blood - have developed a Wellcome-compliant author-pays option.

In return for a fee ($2000), ASH will deposit the final version of Wellcome-funded articles directly into PMC, where they will be made freely available at the time of publication. Further, special licensing language has been drafted to allow end-users of Wellcome-funded articles unrestricted access to these articles. ...

Currently, the special licencing language only applies to researchers funded by the Wellcome Trust. ...