Open Access: Publishing Agreements

Wiley

Key details

This agreement allows Deakin corresponding authors to publish in most of Wiley's hybrid and gold journals without needing to pay an article processing charge (APC).

This agreement is available for articles accepted from 1 January 2022 to 31 December 2025.

This is a capped agreement. Capped agreements limit the number of articles that can be published open access without paying additional APCs. The 2025 cap for this agreement is split between 5348 articles in hybrid journals and 1690 articles in fully open access (gold) journals by all participating institutions. The cap is tracked on the CAUL guide to this agreement.

In 2024, the Wiley cap was fully utilised by the end of September. Some of the cap was retained to cover fully open access (gold) journals for the remainder of the year. In 2025, there is a separate cap for hybrid and gold journals, and we expect that the cap for hybrid journals will again be fully utilised before the end of the year.

Since the time between submission and acceptance of an article can be unpredictable, we recommend considering the possibility that even submissions made to Wiley journals in the first half of the year may miss out on open access through the agreement.

Articles that are accepted after the cap is fully utilised are published with subscription access unless the authors elect to pay the article processing charge. For articles published with subscription access (ie. behind a paywall) we recommend depositing the accepted manuscript version to Elements for free repository (Green) open access in DRO after any applicable publisher embargo.

View the list of eligible journals at CAUL Open Access Agreements or search for a title in Where Should I Publish.

How to use this agreement

• Check the journal list to see if your chosen journal is included
• Check that your article is an eligible type – generally most types of research articles are eligible, but editorials, notes, book reviews etc. are not. Check the eligible article list on CAUL’s guide to the Wiley agreement
• Use your Deakin email address
• Use your Deakin affiliation
• See screenshots of the publishing workflow on CAUL’s guide to the Wiley agreement

This page contains information from Read & Publish Agreements Negotiated by CAUL by Council of Australians University Librarians licensed under CC BY 4.0