The benefits of publishing 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 CC-BY license
- Enables automatic deposit in PMC (when appropriate)
Across the Wiley portfolio open access articles typically perform better than articles requiring a subscription to read them:
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| 3x Downloads On average, open access articles were downloaded 3x as much as subscription articles |
2x Citations Open access articles were cited nearly twice as much compared to subscription articles |
4.5x Altmetric Score Open access articles received 4.5x as much Altmetric attention as subscription articles |