SCELC and Wiley Sign Pilot Agreement to Fund Open Article Publication | SCELC

peter.suber's bookmarks 2022-11-17

Summary:

"SCELC is pleased to announce a one-year Wiley Open Access Publishing pilot agreement.  In addition to continued "read" access to ~1400 hybrid subscription journals, the pilot agreement funds open publication of 61 participating institutions’ 2022 Wiley hybrid journal article output. This agreement will also provide valuable experience and analytics conducive to the design of a potential collaboration with other California consortia.   

Participating SCELC institutions will share a pool of 620 hybrid OA article entitlements to be used on a first-come, first-served basis. SCELC will monitor publication patterns to maximize the opportunity for corresponding authors from all participating institutions to publish their 2022 articles under a free-to-read Creative Commons license. This cost-neutral pilot affords SCELC the opportunity to test automatic open publication of accepted articles whose authors opt in at no direct cost to them. 

In 2019, SCELCs Board of Directors voiced strong support for transformative changes in scholarly communication and strategic collaboration across the state of California toward that end. This agreement with Wiley will better position SCELC and its libraries to catalyze a broader shift such that the majority of published research produced by our institutions’ authors will be openly available to the world. Furthermore, it enables a large cohort of SCELC institutions (from California but also Texas, Hawai’i and other states) to take a significant step toward addressing inequities in access to materials and open publishing across our community, increasing opportunities to read and publish openly for more of the students, faculty, and research staff we serve. ..."

Link:

https://www.scelc.org/about/news/scelc-and-wiley-sign-pilot-agreement-to-fund-open-article-publication

Updated:

11/17/2022, 09:38

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Date tagged:

11/17/2022, 14:38

Date published:

01/31/2022, 09:38