To publish without having to pay additional Article Publication Charges (APCs), the article's
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.
must be from an eligible institution and the article must have been accepted on or after 1 January 2022 if submitted to a hybrid journal, and on submission from 1 January 2022 if submitting to a fully gold open access journal.
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*subject to availability of sufficient funds and approval from eligible institutions' Wiley Open Access Account holders
Publishing open access:
Complies with funder or institution mandates
Allows you to retain copyright through a CC-BY license
Enables automatic deposit in PMC (when appropriate)
To be eligible:
Your manuscript must have been accepted on or after 1 January 2022 if submitting to a hybrid journal
Your manuscript must have been submitted on or after 1 January 2022 if submitting to a fully gold open access journal
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.
You must publish open access in a fully gold OA journal or a hybrid (subscription) journal that offers open access
Your article must be primary research or a review article1
If publishing in a hybrid (subscription) journal, you must order open access at the point of acceptance by using our order workflow as described below2
This agreement cannot be used to cover additional charges (e.g. cover, color, and page charges), which individual journals administer separately
Please contact your university or library with questions.
1Other article types e.g. letters, editorials etc. are excluded.
2If you do not order open access, your manuscript will be published as a subscription (closed access) article. Once your paper is published in Early View or In Issue online you will no longer be eligible to publish open access under the agreement.