The Allin key | The Bookseller
peter.suber's bookmarks 2016-10-21
Summary:
Quoting Mark Allin, President of Wiley: "Wiley has good relationships with many of our institutional customers. The value of these partnerships becomes evident as more governments declare policies and goals in support of Open Access. We are midway through a three-year offset pilot with JISC [the Joint Information Systems Committee] in the UK, and earlier this year launched a pilot that “blends” access to subscription content with the right to publish hybrid Open Access with VSNU in the Netherlands. These are constructive examples of Wiley working with our customers to meet the emerging requirements of institutions, funders and governments, as well as authors. Our OA program has grown rapidly in the past six years: we now have 62 fully Gold Open Access journals and a healthy pipeline for 2017 onwards. We’re further expanding our Open Access footprint through a new partnership with Hindawi. Openness in many forms—access, data, science—is of increasing importance to all those who work in research, and that makes it important to Wiley. So growing our Open Access publishing programme will continue to be a major focus for our Research group...."