Wiley and CAUL's transformational agreement.
Further information on this agreement is available from Wiley.
This page was last updated on 10 February 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.
Authors submitting to a majority of Wiley fully open access journals will need to specify that their “institution or funder has an agreement with Wiley and may pay the Article Publication Charge,” and will need to enter an institution account code or declare their affiliation to said institution when requested.
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.
