Global research and education leader Wiley has announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on open access publishing with the library directors of Tohoku University, Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech), The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, and Tokyo University of Science. This MoU is intended to be the basis for a new transformational agreement and to accelerate open access research publishing across Japan.
This MoU concerns a transformational agreement that will start in April 2022. This is the first initiative jointly signed by multiple universities in Japan and a major international publisher. The MoU allows four institutions across Japan to access to all of Wiley’s hybrid and subscription journals and grants researchers the ability to publish accepted articles open access in all of Wiley's 1,400 hybrid journals. Participating institutions span national universities, private universities, and national research institutes.
Wiley has open access agreements with a variety of institutions, consortia, and government entities globally, including those signed with the National Research Council of Science & Technology in the Republic of Korea, the Slovenian Academic Consortium, the Statewide California Electronic Library Consortium, and the Carolina Consortium earlier this year.
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