2026 agreement details
This agreement has been renewed for 2026. Details in this libguide and associated title list will be updated progressively throughout January 2026.
Important information regarding this agreement
Background
In 2025, the open access publishing agreement between CAUL and Wiley is limited to 7,038 articles. This article allocation, or cap, is shared between hybrid journals (5,348 articles) and fully open access journals (1,690 articles).
The hybrid article cap was reached on 19 September, and the fully open access cap was reached on 28 October.
Hybrid journals are subscription (paywalled) journals that provide authors with a choice in how their article is made open access. Authors publishing in hybrid journals may choose to either:
- pay an article processing charge (APC) to make their published paper open access.
- deposit their accepted manuscript in an open access repository, subject to an embargo period. No fee is payable, but the published paper will be behind the publisher’s subscription paywall.
Fully open access journals publish all their articles as open access and generally require the payment of an APC.
What you need to know
CAUL expects that ~360 articles will be accepted for publication after the fully open access journal articles cap is exhausted. Unlike hybrid journals, there is no free route for authors to publish in fully open access Wiley journals.
CAUL wishes to advise authors who may be impacted:
- Wiley will require an APC to be paid for all articles to be published in fully open access journals once the cap has expired.
- Before proceeding with any commitment to pay an APC, authors should verify that they have the means to pay the fee.
- Wiley will offer a 10% APC discount to eligible CAUL-affiliated papers.
- Authors who cannot pay the fee should immediately contact their journal editor or email cs-openaccess@wiley.com.
- If you require further support, please contact your institution’s library for more information.
CAUL meanwhile continues to negotiate with Wiley for a new agreement for 2026 onwards. Details of any agreement will be announced when they become available..
Wiley and CAUL's transformational agreement.
Further information on this agreement is available from Wiley.
This page was last updated on 28 October 2025.
The following institutions participate in this agreement:
Authors who do not see their institution listed above should contact library staff to enquire further.
This agreement allows authors from participating institutions to publish in most of Wiley's hybrid and gold journals without the need for any transactional open access article processing charge (APC).
This is a capped agreement. This agreement provides for an allowance of 7038 articles by authors from institutions participating in the agreement to be published open access in 2024 with no transactional APCs.
Articles accepted from 1/1/2022 are eligible to be published open access under this agreement.
Articles must be accepted for publication in a hybrid journal on or after 1 January 2022, or submitted to a fully open access journal on or after 1 January 2023 to be eligible for coverage. Please refer to this spreadsheet for full list of article classifications and their corresponding eligibility for open access APC coverage under the agreement.
The cap for 2025 is per the below:
- 5348 articles for hybrid journals
- 1690 articles for fully open access journals
The following article types are eligible for open access under this agreement:
Article types excluded from this agreement include, but are not limited to:
For further details, please refer to this file from the publisher’s website.
As defined by the publisher, the eligible author is:
In Wiley journals, these are designated "responsible corresponding author". All articles can have more than one corresponding authors, but only one designated "responsible corresponding author" each.
Responsible corresponding authors must include a participating institution as one of their affiliations to benefit from this agreement.
Authors will be identified as eligible for open access publishing by their:
Responsible corresponding authors must use their institutional email address when submitting an article for publication.
Responsible corresponding authors should not use personal email addresses (e.g. Hotmail, Gmail). Doing so may result in delayed approval of the article or the article may not be approved to be published open access under the terms of the agreement.
No other APC discounts are offered under this agreement.
The agreement allows for publishing in most journals. The complete title list is available online. If you wish to publish open access, please check to ensure that your desired journal is included.
Hybrid journals that 'flip' to OA during the course of this agreement will remain available for OA publishing for the duration of the agreement.
Articles from authors at participating institutions may be published under the following Creative Commons licenses:
Authors retain all rights as per the CC license.
Further information about licenses is available on the publisher's website.
The Creative Commons licenses allow reuse (some with conditions) while protecting the authors' rights of acknowledgment as authors.
Article approvals are managed by CAUL via a custom publisher platform.
Wiley does charge additional fees for page and/or colour fees. Authors should always check each journal’s submission guidelines to ensure that they will not be subject to any other fees or charges.
The following instructions for authors have been provided by the publisher.
Workflow for Wiley hybrid journals
Example screenshot(s):
For Wiley hybrid journals, please ensure that an affiliation to CAUL participating institutions is clearly stated when requested, and the eligibility message for CAUL affiliated researchers is shown at the step prior to confirming the article for open access publishing under CAUL’s agreement.
In the Hindawi journal workflow, authors will be required to enter their institutional affiliations and the designated corresponding authors’ details will be matched to participating CAUL institutions.
Please email cs-openaccess@wiley.com for questions regarding this agreement. Please include your full name, institution, article title, journal name and manuscript ID or DOI (if available), and state the reason for your enquiry.
Please contact library staff at your institution for questions related to this agreement. They can provide advice on using the CAUL Open Access Agreements.
