Open access agreement for authors at eligible VHLC institutions in Australia
Publish open access with Wiley
From 1 January 2026, authors affiliated with institutions that are participating in Wiley’s Victorian Health Libraries Consortium (VHLC) agreement may publish in Wiley’s subscription journals which offer open access, with no transactional Article Publication Charges (APC).
You can be confident that by choosing open access, your work will have the best chance to be read, cited and shared. Read more about the advantages of publishing open access.
To be eligible:
- 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.must be currently affiliated with an eligible VHLC member institution at the point of acceptance.1
- You must publish open access in a hybrid (subscription) journal that offers open access.
- Your article must be a primary research or a review article, including but not limited to original articles, case studies, reviews, short communications, and other content types.2
- You must order hybrid open access by using the order workflow on Wiley Author Services.
- Your manuscript must have been accepted for publication in a hybrid (subscription) journal on or after 1 January 2026.
- This agreement cannot be used to cover additional charges (e.g. color or page charges), which individual journals administer separately.
Open access payments made easy with your institution
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Follow this step by step guide to making your article open access in a hybrid journal – at no cost to yourself. Go to the Wiley Author Services Dashboard now, to select open access for your article. |
Additional information and questions
1Eligibility is subject to when the institution has formalized their participation in the agreement. If you are no longer affiliated with an eligible VHLC member institution at the point of acceptance of your paper in a hybrid (subscription) journal, you do not qualify.
2Follow this link to view our list of article types and and their corresponding eligibility for open access publishing.
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