No agreement yet with Wiley: ETH Library offers transitional solutions for non-contractual situation
The national negotiations of swissuniversities with the scientific publisher Wiley (including ‘Advanced Materials’ and ‘Angewandte Chemie’) have not yet led to an agreement. Together with the other affected universities, the ETH Library is preparing for a situation in which there is no contract from January 2025.
Reading access to Wiley content
Reading access to Wiley media should continue to be available during the negotiations. However, in the event of a 'no-deal', access to content from 2025 could be restricted. The ETH Library will provide ongoing information as the negotiations progress.
Open access publishing with Wiley
The costs for articles in external page Wiley's pure gold open access journals will continue to be covered by the ETH Library despite the lack of a contract. As before, requests can be submitted via Wiley's existing workflow for ETH members.
In contrast, from January 2025, publishing in external page hybrid journals will temporarily only be possible in closed access form. The ETH Library will not finance open access fees in such journals during the contract-free period. However, it aims to retroactively convert all accepted articles in 2025 to open access publications when a contract is signed.
The ETH Library also recommends that ETH members do not use their own funds to finance hybrid articles during the contract-free period. Alternatively, authors are encouraged to make a parallel and free secondary publication of their accepted manuscript version in the Research Collection.
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Further information on the negotiations with Wiley can also be found on the external page swissuniversities website.