Open access agreement for authors at eligible SCELC institutions
Your institution wants you to publish open access
Corresponding authors affiliated with participating SCELC institutions may publish gold open access in any fully open access or hybrid journal, at no charge. By choosing gold open access an article is immediately and freely available for all to read, download and share.
If you are a corresponding author at any of the participating SCELC institutions and publish open access in Wiley journals, you will receive an automatic discount of 15% on article processing charges (APCs). Additionally, SCELC 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.
The cost of publishing affiliated author articles open access has already been covered by library subscriptions, so opting out of publishing open access would not save affiliated institutions any money.
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)
Read more about the advantages of publishing open access here.
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.
Make your article open access
Please be aware that your open access publishing experience under this agreement will be new in 2024. Review the SCELC workflow document for authors to follow here.
