The benefits of publishing gold open access

By removing access barriers to published research, open access makes research findings available to everyone – driving forward the pace and strength of global innovation and invention.

As an author, you can be confident that by choosing open access your work has the best chance to be read, cited, and shared.


Publishing gold open access:

  • Complies with funder or institution mandates
  • Allows you to retain copyright through a Creative Commons BY license
  • Enables automatic deposit in PubMed Central (when appropriate)*

Across our portfolio, open access articles typically perform better than articles requiring a subscription to read them:


3.5x Views
On average, open access articles were viewed three and a half times more compared to subscription articles 		1.3x Citations
On average, open access articles were cited +33% compared to subscription articles 		3.8x Altmetric Score
On average, open access articles generated almost four times as much Altmetric attention compared to subscription articles




For more information, read about the Clear Advantages When you Choose to Publish Open Access with Wiley and take a look at our white paper Demonstrating the Advantage of Open Access.



*If the article is: 1) funded by an NIH funding institute, or 2) published as open access and funded by a PMC partner or Europe PMC funder, or 3) published open access in a MEDLINE-indexed journal, or 4) published in a Journal with a Full Participation Agreement with PMC; the final published version1 will become freely available on PMC/Europe PMC, the full-text archive of scientific literature in the biomedical and life sciences.


1 For NIH funded articles that are not published open access, the author manuscript will be deposited in PMC, rather than the final published version.