Wiley

2026 FULLY OPEN ACCESS JOURNAL CAP NOTICE: The 2026 annual coverage cap for Wiley's fully open access journals is projected to be reached in late October 2026. To be covered, eligible articles must have been accepted for publication and authors must have completed their author agreements before the cap is reached. This cap will reset on 1 January 2027.

Articles accepted to Wiley open access journals after the cap is reached will face the payment of an Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication. The Library does not have funds available to cover APCs or other publishing fees if they arise. If you are submitting to a capped open access journal, ensure you have access to funds to pay any publishing fees.

Note that open access publishing in Wiley's hybrid journals is uncapped in 2026.

Type

Read and Publish agreement (via CAUL).

Status

Active since 1 January 2022.

Current agreement term

1 January 2026 - 31 December 2028.

Journal coverage

Unlimited open access publishing for University of Melbourne corresponding authors in Wiley hybrid (subscription) journals.

Limited (capped) open access publishing for University of Melbourne corresponding authors in Wiley open access journals.

Covered journals are reflected in our Journal Open Pathways Explorer and in CAUL's title list.

Eligible authors

To be eligible, the article's responsible corresponding author must provide their University of Melbourne affiliation. This does not need to be their first affiliation; any affiliation order is acceptable. Note that Wiley articles can have more than one corresponding author, but only one designated responsible corresponding author.

Corresponding authors must use their unimelb email address (@unimelb.edu.au or @student.unimelb.edu.au). This email address should be used in the publisher's submission platform and all correspondence. Using an alternative email address 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.

Eligible article types

See Wiley's full list of article classifications (.xlsx download), wherein column C notes eligibility. Eligible types include:

  • Primary research and review articles, including original articles
  • Case studies
  • Reviews
  • Short Communications

Cap details

The cap for fully open access Wiley journals is projected to be reached in late October 2026. Once the cap has been reached, eligible authors of eligible articles will receive a 20% discount on the open access Article Processing Charge (APC).

Open access publishing in Wiley's hybrid journals is uncapped from 2026.

How to use the agreement for hybrid (subscription) Wiley journals

See Wiley's step-by-step guide for using the agreement with hybrid journals (PDF). The steps can be summarised as follows:

  1. Follow Wiley's usual submission process. Ensure you provide your unimelb email address in the publishing platform.
  2. On article acceptance, in Wiley's Author Services platform, confirm a responsible corresponding author. This nominated author will determine eligibility for an open access publishing agreement.
  3. In the Author Services platform, confirm open access publishing and nominate a Creative Commons licence. Eligibility is recognised automatically based on institutional affiliation, email address, and article type. The responsible corresponding author must affiliate with the University of Melbourne.
  4. Upon completion of the Author Services process, the funding request will be sent to CAUL for approval. The responsible corresponding author must use their University of Melbourne affiliation to be recognised as eligible. CAUL will approve funding under the agreement for eligible authors within a few days of a DOI being assigned. Coverage of the article's APC will be confirmed by email.

How to use the agreement for open access Wiley journals

See Wiley's step-by-step guide for using the agreement with open access journals (PDF). The steps can be summarised as follows:

  1. When first submitting to the journal, nominate a responsible corresponding author. This author will determine eligibility for an open access publishing agreement. Ensure this author provides their unimelb email address in the publishing platform.
  2. Eligibility is recognised automatically based on institutional affiliation, email address, and article type. The responsible corresponding author must affiliate with the University of Melbourne. This eligibility will be confirmed in the submission system.
  3. Article review proceeds as usual.
  4. Upon article acceptance, Wiley sends a funding request to CAUL. CAUL will approve funding under the agreement for eligible authors within a few days of a DOI being assigned. Coverage of the article's APC will be confirmed by email.

For further details on how to use the Wiley agreement, including screenshots, see the "Open access workflow" section in the CAUL R&P Guide's Wiley page.

Note that CAUL will only approve coverage of eligible articles after a DOI has been assigned. This may be several days, or weeks, after coverage is first requested (upon article acceptance and the completion of Author Services processes).

Related discount

When publishing in eligible fully open access Wiley journals after their cap has been reached, eligible articles can receive a 20% APC discount. Note that this was a 10% discount prior to 1 January 2026.

See "Discounts on open access publishing fees" on the Open Access Publishing page for details.

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