Article cap update: The annual cap for open access publishing with the Wiley agreement is split between hybrid journals and fully open access (gold) journals. Both caps will be reached early - in mid-September for hybrid journals and early November for fully open access (gold) journals. View the capped agreement tracker for updates.
Hybrid journals
UPDATE: The hybrid open access cap was exhausted on 19 September 2025. There will be no further hybrid open access article approvals in 2025. Articles that are accepted to hybrid journals will be published with subscription access unless the authors elect to pay the article processing charge (APC) themselves. Instead of paying the APC, we recommend uploading the accepted manuscript version to Elements for free repository (Green) open access in DRO after any applicable publisher embargo.
Fully open access (gold) journals
The fully open access article cap is expected to be exhausted in early November. After the cap is reached, authors will need to pay an APC to publish their articles, as there is no option to publish behind a paywall in fully open access journals. Information about APCs is available on the journal’s website.
For further advice, please contact your librarian.
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
Further details
This page provides a summary and was last updated on: 25 August 2025
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This page contains information from Read & Publish Agreements Negotiated by CAUL by Council of Australians University Librarians licensed under CC BY 4.0
