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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 Jan 2025 – 31 Dec 2028

OA quota per year (shared among participating institutions):

2025: 582 hybrid journal articles; 196 Gold journal articles.
2026: 594 hybrid journal articles; 200 Gold journal articles.
2027: 606 hybrid journal articles; 204 Gold journal articles.
2028: 618 hybrid journal articles; 208 Gold journal articles.

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: Case Study, Case Study Media, Commentary, Data Article, Education, Lecture, Method and Protocol, Perspective, Practice and Policy, Rapid Publication, Research Article, Review Article, Short Communication, Technical Note.

OA publishing license: eligible Authors will be able to select from the following Creative Commons licenses, as applicable for the particular journal: Attribution International (CC BY), Attribution Non-Commercial International (CC BY-NC), Attribution No-Derivatives International (CC BY-ND), or Attribution Non-Commercial No-Derivatives International (CC BY-NC-ND).