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Read and Publish: Wiley

This guide covers the deals the library has with various journal publishers, and how to use those deals to read or publish articles without paying fees.

BCU Library has a Read & Publish deal with Wiley until 31st December 2025.

If you have questions about what happens after this date, please see the Approaching the End of the Deal section, or the Next Gen OA Updates page.

This deal covers the fees for the following:

  • Read access to Wiley journals from 1996
  • Publishing articles Gold Open Access in hybrid and fully-OA Wiley journals (including former Hindawi journals).

Please see below for eligibility criteria and links to more information.

 

Criteria and restrictions

Author eligibility

  • You must be the corresponding author
  • You must declare your affiliation with BCU

Article eligibility

Eligible article types include:

  • Original research articles
  • Original review articles
  • Case reports

 

The following article types are not covered:

  • Book reviews
  • Editorials

Journal eligibility

Eligible journals are:

  • Hybrid journals. These are journals that charge a subscription fee, but publish some Open Access articles.
  • Fully Open Access journals. These are journals that don't charge a subscription fee, and publish all articles Open Access.
  • Journals previously published by Hindawi, that are now published by Wiley.

The following journals are not covered:

 

 

Eligible Wiley hybrid journals (Excel file )

Eligible Wiley fully-OA journals (Excel file )

How to Access

  • When you submit your article, you need to list BCU as your first affiliation.
  • It is easiest for the Library to confirm your affiliation if you use your BCU email address.
  • There are different procedures for publishing in a hybrid (pdf workflow here) or fully-OA (pdf workflow here) journals.

More Information

Approaching the End of the Deal

This deal ends on 31st December 2025:

  • Jisc (representing the UK higher education sector) are currently negotiating with Wiley for a deal covering 2026 onwards
  • As of August 2025, Wiley have made an offer and asked the sector to vote on whether to accept, accept with conditions, or reject it
  • This is a national negotiation and the outcome depends on how the whole sector votes, not just BCU

What this means for you right now:

  • Wiley ask us for funding approval before your article is accepted by the journal editors
  • If your article is approved for funding, but has not been accepted by the journal editors by 31st December 2025, Wiley will cancel the funding approval and it will not be covered by the deal
  • If your article is in a hybrid journal, it can still be published for free behind a paywall
  • If your article is in a fully-OA journal, you will need to find alternative funding or submit to a different journal

Please be aware of this upcoming deadline and check review timeframes when using this deal in 2025. We will keep the Next Gen OA page updated with the latest developments.

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