California Universities Partner with Wiley on Landmark Open Access Agreement - Office of Scholarly Communication
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Summary:
"The 10-campus University of California system and 48 private and public academic and research institutions represented by the Statewide California Electronic Library Consortium (SCELC) have reached a new open access agreement with Wiley, one of the world’s largest publishers. The three-year deal begins this month, and will make more research eligible for open access publication than any partnership of its kind in California....
The agreement redirects existing library subscription funds to enable authors at the participating institutions to publish articles open access at lower or no cost in more than 1,600 hybrid and gold open access Wiley journals. Authors with grant funds available pay a discounted open access publishing fee; the cost is covered in full for those who lack funding for publication....
The University of California’s 2023 agreement with Wiley broke new ground on another priority for UC faculty: author rights. As part of this new agreement, Wiley will make a good faith effort to develop a new global license to publish agreement over the next six months. The goal, except for limited use-cases, is for authors to retain unrestricted rights to their own work...."