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Publishing Gold Open Access With Wiley

Publishing Gold Open Access With Wiley

Publishing your work open access means it’s available for anyone to read, use and build upon – giving your article the best possible chance to be read and cited, while enabling faster innovation and removing barriers to readership.

Researchers need choice as much as they need openness, which means publishers have a responsibility to offer multiple paths to open access. We have over 600 fully open access journals and 98% of our subscription journals offer a hybrid option for gold open access and self-archiving (sometimes referred to as green open access) models.

What is gold open access?

The final, peer-reviewed version is made freely, immediately and permanently available online.

Gold open access articles are published under a Creative Commons (CC) license and the author retains the copyright. Take a look at our Licensing Info & FAQs page to help you choose the right license type for your work.

The are several options for publishing gold open access:

Publish in a fully open access journal.
Publish in a hybrid open access journal (a subscription-based journal that offers an open access option).
Automatically export to PubMed Central / Europe PubMed Central (PMC) when appropriate.*

The gold open access article publication charge is paid for by the author, or on their behalf by an institution or a funding body. Check if your fees are covered.

There are clear advantages when you choose to publish open access with Wiley. Compared to subscription articles, on average gold open access articles receive:

3.5x Views

1.3x Citations

3.8x Altmetric Score**

The Gold Road to Open Access

Helping authors navigate their gold open access (OA) journey with Wiley

START

Wiley offers two routes to publishing gold OA - fully OA or hybrid OA. Use our Journal Finder to select the journal you want to submit to and follow submission guidelines.
Check if your funder/institution has any specific criteria, for example gold OA or self-archiving (also known as green OA).
Check if your fees are covered by your institution. If prompted, confirm your affiliation if your article publication fees (APCs) are being funded. Your institution will confirm your eligibility to Wiley and approve your request.
Alternatively you will need to complete payment in advance of publication. Check the journal’s APC here.
Once your article is accepted, you are responsible for completing the Open Access Agreement (available in Author Services).
Upon online publication, the final version of your article will be made OA on Wiley Online Library under a Creative Commons License.

FINISH

Upon publication in an issue, your article will be auto-archived in the PMC repository, if appropriate*.

Open access: Helping researchers share their work with the world.

www.wileyopenaccess.com

*If the article is:

1) published as open access and funded by a PMC partner or Europe PMC funder, or
2) published open access in a MEDLINE-indexed journal, or
3) published in a Journal with a Full Participation Agreement with PMC; the final published version will become freely available on PMC/Europe PMC, the full-text archive of scientific literature in the biomedical and life sciences.

** Insights were gained from an extensive review of Wiley journal articles from 1 January 2015 to 31 December 2020, with metrics derived from 1 January 2019 to 31 December 2024. For more information, see our OA Advantage infographic

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