The Advantages of Open Access Publishing

Increase Your Readership and Citations

The number of open access articles and journals published by Wiley has grown exponentially over the last ten years. We are committed to an open access future and are supporting the ongoing transition to open access in a number of ways. One such way is through our negotiation of country-level agreements combining access (reading) and publishing on large scales.

After first negotiating and signing deals in the Netherlands (VSNU) and Austria (KEMO), our position as a leading open access publisher was cemented by the landmark agreement with Projekt DEAL in Germany at the start of 2019. Transformational agreements with the UK (Jisc), Norway (Sikt), Hungary (EISZ), Sweden (Bibsam), and Finland (FinELib) quickly followed suit throughout 2019 and 2020.

2021 saw Wiley expand our transformational agreements outside of Europe, with our first partnership in North America with Iowa State University. More recently our partnerships extended to MALMAD (Israel), Carolina Consortium (USA), and NST (Republic of Korea). Importantly for the College and JMIRO, an agreement was also reached with the Council of Australian University Librarians (CAUL), covering 52 institutions across Australia and NZ.

Every one of Wiley’s transformational agreements, whether for hybrid or gold journals, includes read access, which allows researchers at participating institutions full access to content published within our entire portfolio of journals. But unlike traditional journal subscriptions, transformational agreements also enable those covered by them to publish open access in Wiley’s titles with no direct cost to the author.

This means that for CAUL-affiliated authors publishing in JMIRO, you can take advantage of this new agreement and select to publish open access when submitting your next paper. Open access will see your work being made freely available immediately upon publication, while you retain copyright and publish under a Creative Commons license. Wiley’s own research shows that open access articles in hybrid journals such as JMIRO can attract up to 3.2x the readership and 1.5x the citations of nonopen access articles.

For more details about this research and to see additional results gathered from a collection of more than 150,000 papers, please see Demonstrating the advantage of publishing open access with Wiley, our white paper available to download at www.wiley.net

To learn more about the open access advantage for JMIRO, visit Online Library | Open Access Advantages

To learn more about the CAUL-Wiley agreement and check your eligibility, visit Read and Publish | Wiley

To learn more about Wiley’s other transformation agreements around the world, and to check your eligibility under these, visit Wiley | Open Access