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Wiley has announced that it has signed more than 125 multi-year transformational agreements with library consortia and institutions worldwide. The company stated that its Read and Publish agreements now span 45 countries and provide access to its research content while enabling more than 95,000 articles to be published as open access.

Wiley stated that the acceleration of read-and-publish agreements in recent years has led the company to expand its research infrastructure to support more than 3,500 institutions across 45 countries. The company reported that this expansion includes investments in technology and training intended to improve the author experience, safeguard research integrity, and enhance content discoverability. These recurring-revenue agreements have supported the publication of more than 95,000 open access articles and enabled scholars worldwide to access and build on Wiley’s research content.

According to the announcement, Wiley’s largest multi-year Read and Publish agreements include national and regional library consortia. These include DEAL in Germany, CAPES in Brazil, TUBITAK in Türkiye, JISC in the United Kingdom, CAUL in Australia and New Zealand, CDL and SCELC in the United States, and OASE in Japan. Collectively, these agreements represent more than 1,500 institutions.

Wiley stated that this model provides read access to a broad range of research content while removing financial barriers for individual researchers to publish their work. The company reported that this approach has increasingly become the norm for major academic libraries globally. Transformational agreements allow affiliated researchers at participating institutions to publish open access in Wiley’s journal portfolio, with funding often managed centrally by the institution.

Wiley provides institutions with access to nearly 2,000 journals through multi-year subscriptions and transformational agreements. The company stated that it has complemented its transformational agreements with additional initiatives designed to expand access to research publishing. These initiatives include a long-standing partnership with Research4Life and an Open Access Pricing Power Parity Pilot in Latin America.