Open access agreement for authors at eligible OhioLINK institutions

Publish open access at Wiley

Corresponding authors affiliated with participating OhioLINK institutions may publish open access in any fully open access or hybrid journal, at no cost to the author.

You can be confident that by choosing open access your work has the best chance to be read, cited and shared. Read more about the advantages of publishing open access here.


Publishing open access:

Check your eligibility:

  • Articles must be submitted by the corresponding author affiliated with an eligible OhioLINK member institution. A corresponding author is responsible for handling the manuscript and correspondence during the publication process
  • You must choose to publish in a fully gold open access journal or in a hybrid journal that publishes both subscription-only and open access articles
  • If submitting to a fully gold open access journal your manuscript must have been submitted on or after 1 January 2025
  • If submitting to a hybrid journal your manuscript must have been accepted for publication on or after 1 January 2025
  • Your article must be primary research or a review article. Other article types are excluded, e.g. letters, editorials etc.
  • Requests for APC coverage made at submission are provisional until confirmed following acceptance for publication and open access license signing and are subject to availability and verification of institution affiliation
  • This agreement cannot be used to pay for cover color, and page charges, which individual journals administer separately

Please contact your university or library with questions. You also can view more information for authors on OhioLINK's website.

Follow our step-by-step guides and publish open access today

How to publish in a fully open access journal

How to publish in a hybrid open access journal