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Open Access Publishing Agreements: Wiley

Discover the current open access publishing agreements in place, allowing options for publishing research open access at no cost to the author.

Agreement details

The four year IReL-Wiley agreement allows eligible corresponding authors in participating institutions to publish original research and review articles open access upon publication at no extra cost.

Agreement period: 1 Feb 2022 – 31 Dec 2024

OA quota per year:

  • 680 hybrid journal articles (shared across all participating institutions).
  • A separate fund is available for articles accepted for publication in Wiley’s fully-OA (Gold) journals. This fund is available to authors submitting manuscripts from 1 Jan 2024. Funding is allocated to articles based on the submission date, i.e. for an article to be eligible, it must be submitted on a date between January and December 2024. After the fund runs out, authors will not be offered IReL-funded OA on submission for the rest of the year.

APC quota UPDATE (27th August, 2024): Wiley's APC quota for their fully OA (Gold) has been exhausted. 
Authors will not be offered OA under Wiley-IReL OA publishing agreement on submission of their article for the remainder of 2024.

APCs for Wiley's Hybrid (subscription) journals are expected to last until the end of the year.

What journals are included?

All Wiley hybrid (partially open access) and Gold (fully open access) journals. See the list of all journals (including Wiley’s) included in IReL open access agreements.

NOTE: a small number of Wiley subscription-only journals are excluded.

Instructions for authors

Eligible authors: the corresponding author must be a current staff member or student of a participating institution at the time the article is accepted for publication. Requests for OA are subject to approval by participating institutions.

Eligible article types: primary research and review articles. Other article types e.g. letters, editorials etc. are excluded.

OA publishing license: eligible authors will be able to select the at least one of the following: CC-BY, CC-BY-NC, CC-BY-NC-ND. Authors retain all proprietary rights in addition to copyright. Eligibility is based on article acceptance date.