Open access agreement for authors at eligible University of California institutions

Your institution wants you to publish open access

Corresponding authors affiliated with participating University of California institutions may publish gold open access in any fully open access or hybrid journal with institutional support from the UC libraries.

If you are a corresponding author at any of the ten UC campuses or the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and publish open access in Wiley journals, you will receive an automatic discount of 15% on article processing charges (APCs). Additionally, the UC libraries will automatically pay the first $1,000 of the article processing charge (APC), after the discount. If you do not have research funds available to pay the remaining APC, you can request full funding of the APC from the UC Libraries.

For more information on Wiley’s open access agreement with the University of California, visit the University of California’s FAQ on the agreement.

Your institution wants you to make your article gold open access.

Publishing open access:

• Complies with institution or funder mandates
• Allows you to retain copyright through a CC BY license
• Enables automatic deposit in PMC (when appropriate)

Check your eligibility:

• You must be the responsible corresponding authorThe responsible corresponding author is the author who manages the manuscript and correspondence during the publication process - from submission through publication. This author has the authority to act on behalf of all the co-authors and will also be the contact for inquiries after publication. affiliated with an eligible institution at the point of acceptance (if you are no longer affiliated with an eligible institution at the point of acceptance of your paper, you do not qualify)
• You must publish in a fully gold open access journal or publish open access in a hybrid journal
• If submitting to a fully gold open access journal your manuscript must have been submitted on or after 1 January 2024
• If submitting to a hybrid journal your manuscript must have been accepted for publication on or after 1 January 2024
• Your article must be primary research or a review article. Other article types e.g. letters, editorials etc. are excluded
• This agreement cannot be used to cover additional charges (e.g. cover, color, and page charges), which individual journals administer separately
• If submitting to a hybrid journal, and you don't order open access initially, your manuscript will be published under the traditional closed access model. You may order open access retroactively, but once your paper is published in Early View or In Issue online you are no longer eligible to publish at no charge
• Some institutional funding policies may differ for gold and/or hybrid open access APCs. Please check with your library for any exceptions.

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

Review the University of California workflow documents for authors to follow here.