The University has recently signed up to a new ‘Read & Publish’ agreement with Wiley, which means there are now more opportunities than ever to make your work Open Access (OA).

The agreement allows any Warwick-affiliated author to make their peer-reviewed research articles available in Wiley’s fully Open Access or OnlineOpen hybrid journals (subscription journals with an OA option) at no extra charge, providing:

• Your manuscript was accepted on or after 2 March 2020
• You are the corresponding author
• You are publishing Open Access in a fully gold OA journal or a hybrid (subscription) journal that offers OnlineOpen
• The article is a primary research or review article
• If publishing in a hybrid (subscription) journal, you order OnlineOpen at the point of acceptance using the designated workflow

The agreement cannot be used to cover additional page and colour charges (as these are administered by individual journals and not part of the workflow).

You can make your work open under a range of Creative Commons (CC) licences. However, if you are in receipt of a research grant, you will need to make sure that your licence complies with your funders policy, for example for UKRI and COAF-funded authors, the requirement is for CC BY. For non-funded authors, your journal will let you know what the options are, but we would encourage you to go for the least restrictive option and to choose CC BY wherever possible.

Publishing Open Access can help to raise the profile of your work and increase citations, so we would always advise you to think about going open when publishing your article with Wiley.

The University also has a similar arrangement which allows Warwick authors to publish Open Access in most Springer Open Choice journals free of charge.You can find out more about these, and the other publisher agreements and discount schemes that Warwick subscribes at going open.