Wiley Hybrid Journals OA Publishing Support FAQ
UVM Libraries is participating in a transformative agreement with the publisher Wiley that fully covers the Author Processing Charge (APC) for accepted articles in their hybrid journal catalog.
Our agreement covers up to 70 Article Processing Charges per year, then resets the next year.
NOTE: This agreement covers Article Processing Charges, but not any other associated fees that may be applicable for a specific journal. See below for more information.
"At its most fundamental, a contract is a transformative agreement if it seeks to shift the contracted payment from a library or group of libraries to a publisher away from subscription-based reading and towards open access publishing." - Transformative Agreements: A Primer, The Scholarly Kitchen
With a transformative agreement (also called Read & Publish agreement) in place, the author processing fees for affiliated authors are bundled into one annual institutional contract rather than being paid on an individual basis for each publication. There are as many variations of such agreements as there are publishers, in part because most publishers have a mix of traditional, hybrid, and fully Open Access journals.
In this case, UVM Libraries have a contract with the publisher Wiley that gives us perpetual access to all of their journals and coverage of up to 70 full APCs annually for affiliated authors publishing in their hybrid journals, which are currently the majority of their titles.
This agreement covers Wiley's Hybrid journals, which make up the vast majority of their catalog. This means that the journal is by default published without Open Access, but that authors may pay an Author Processing Charge to make them OA. UVM authors will not need to pay this fee if eligible to use one of our credits.
Find a hybrid Wiley journal here: Wiley Journal Finder for Authors: Hybrid Journals
Wiley has a number of journals that are entirely Open Access. These are not included in this agreement and still have their standard APCs in effect.
Find a list of excluded OA titles here: Wiley Open Access Titles
Note: Some of these are Society titles and may have APC discounts or coverage for their Society members. Visit each journal's individual page for more information.
Our agreement does not include all article types. Individual journals may use different terms for some of these types of articles, so it is wise to check to be sure if your article type is not listed here. If your article type is not eligible for Open Access support, you will not be presented with the option to select it when you receive your article acceptance.
| YES | NO |
| Primary Research & Review Articles | Editorials & Opinion Pieces |
| Case Studies | Media & Book Reviews |
| Review Articles | Meeting Reports |
| Short Communications | Profiles |
| Data Articles | Career & Practice Management |
| Methods & Protocol Articles | Obituaries |
| Education Pieces | Announcements |
| Practice & Policy Pieces |
*The above list is only of the most common article types. Please contact the Libraries if you need further assistance or clarification.
No. The process of submitting an article for publication is identical until after it has been reviewed and accepted.
No. Neither this agreement nor the Libraries have any impact on article acceptance.
Yes.
No. Affiliation will be checked before an APC credit is approved.
The corresponding author on a covered article must be a UVM affiliate; however, other authors of the same article may have different affiliations. The corresponding author is the person who submits the article and handles necessary interactions with Wiley.
If you are AN author but not currently the corresponding author, please contact the Libraries for assistance.
No. You do not have to be first author.
You DO have to be the Corresponding Author - the person manages communication with Wiley via their author website. It is possible to change the Corresponding Author after initial submission in order to become eligible for the Open Access APC credit, but it must be to one of the other listed authors. Other types of contribution or connection are not sufficient.
70 articles.
This number will reset in April.
No. All APCs are covered in full, whether $500 or $10,000.
NO.
A subset of Society Press journals handled but not administered by Wiley charges other types of fees - page fees, etc. - that are NOT covered by this agreement. This agreement covers APCs only. The APC is waived, but not the other types of fees if this is relevant to a journal.
In some cases, the Society press will waive other fees if you publish your article Open Access. Consult the journal's author instructions to find out if this is true for your target journal.
The number of APCs included in our agreement is based on our past publishing activity and is unlikely to be exceeded. If it is on a consistent basis, we will attempt to increase it.
If an author has an accepted article and there are no more APC credits remaining for the year, Wiley will not present the option to have it covered. All other steps of the publishing process will be the same.
You must submit your article using your UVM or UVM Medical Center email address.
After your article has been accepted, Wiley will present you with the option to publish your article OA. If you want to, check the box.
If you do not want your article to be published OA, you do not have to. When it asks you if you want your article OA, check the box to decline.
Yes. You retain your copyright but permit licensing under one of several supported Creative Commons License types.
Authors retain their copyright, but allow others to access or use their work without consultation or fees under one of several standard Creative Commons licenses. Works licensed under a Creative Commons License must still be cited when used.
"A creative commons license is a license issued by the copyright owner to allow anyone in the world to use his or her copyright work in any manner consistent with that license. Creative Commons licenses are essentially standard form license agreements which can be attached to a work to enable its use under certain circumstances without the need to contact the author or negotiate terms of use."
UVM is beginning to add more agreements like this one. Find out more about them on the Library's Open Access Publishing Support Guide.