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Read and Publish: Wiley

This guide covers how academics can access journals the library subscribes to, and we support our researchers to publish gold open access papers in these journals.

BCU Library has a Read & Publish deal with Wiley from 2024 to 2025.

Please note that our Wiley Open Access account will be down for maintenance between 10th June 2025 and 16th June 2025. You can still request OA funding during this time, but the Library will not be able to approve it until after 16th June.

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:

  • UK university libraries and Jisc are currently exploring the possibilities after this point, but do not have a deal in place at present
  • 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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