The Wiley Read & Publish agreement commenced January 2022, and allows authors from participating institutions to publish open access into 1658 hybrid and open access Wiley and 268 Hindawi journals, without paying any transactional article publication charges (APC), as well as giving researchers access to all hybrid and subscription journals. View the 2024 Otago titles list, which includes the Read & Publish status for each title.
The article cap in 2024 is 6,900 articles.
The following article types are eligible for open access under this agreement:
Article types excluded from this agreement include, but are not limited to:
For further details, please refer to this file from the publisher’s website.
Articles must have an acceptance date within the duration of this agreement (2024) to be eligible to be published open access with no transactional APCs under the terms of this agreement.
Wiley does charge additional fees for page and/or colour fees. Authors should always check each journal’s submission guidelines to ensure that they will not be subject to any other fees or charges.
As defined by the publisher, the eligible author is:
In Wiley journals, these are designated "responsible corresponding author". All articles can have more than one corresponding authors, but only one "responsible corresponding author" each.
In Hindawi journals, articles will only have one designated "corresponding author" each.
Responsible corresponding authors must include a participating institution as one of their affiliations to benefit from this agreement.
Authors will be identified as eligible for open access publishing by their:
Responsible corresponding authors must use their institutional email address when submitting an article for publication.
Responsible corresponding authors should not use personal email addresses (e.g. Hotmail, Gmail). Doing so may result in delayed approval of the article or the article may not be approved to be published open access under the terms of the agreement.
No other APC discounts are offered under this agreement.
Articles from authors at participating institutions may be published under the following Creative Commons licenses:
Authors retain all rights as per the CC license.
Further information about licenses is available on the publisher's website.
The Creative Commons licenses allow reuse (some with conditions) while protecting the authors' rights of acknowledgment as authors.
The following instructions for authors have been provided by the publisher.
Workflow for Wiley hybrid journals
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For Wiley hybrid journals, please ensure that an affiliation to CAUL participating institutions is clearly stated when requested, and the eligibility message for CAUL affiliated researchers is shown at the step prior to confirming the article for open access publishing under CAUL’s agreement.
Authors submitting to a majority of Wiley fully open access journals will need to specify that their “institution or funder has an agreement with Wiley and may pay the Article Publication Charge,” and will need to enter an institution account code or declare their affiliation to said institution when requested.
In the Hindawi journal workflow, authors will be required to enter their institutional affiliations and the designated corresponding authors’ details will be matched to participating CAUL institutions.
Authors may deposit articles in institutional repositories.
Authors may deposit articles in institutional repositories.