The University of California (UC) and global publisher Wiley have announced an expansion of their open access agreement, making UC research more accessible to people around the world. Under the new agreement, researchers at all 10 UC campuses and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) will receive funding support to publish open access. The UC libraries will automatically pay the first $1,000 of the open access fee, or article processing charge (APC), for all UC faculty, students, staff, and clinicians who publish in any of Wiley’s more than 1,600 journals. UC authors also receive a 15 percent discount on the APC, and the libraries will pay the entire APC for authors who wish to make their work freely available but do not have research funds available.
The shared funding model proved successful in the first year of the pilot between UC and Wiley. The number of open access articles published in Wiley journals increased nearly three-fold on the five campuses that participated in 2022. By bringing in Berkeley (including LBNL), Davis, San Diego, UCLA, and UCSF, the amount of UC research covered under the agreement will quadruple, putting UC on track for an even greater number of open access articles in 2023. Ten percent of all UC research is published in Wiley journals.
The new agreement also includes unprecedented measures to protect author rights, another priority of the UC faculty, along with free and open public access to research. UC partnered with Wiley to incorporate new terms that address variations in author rights under different types of Creative Commons licenses, which are common across the publishing industry. The UC libraries are committed to ensuring that UC authors do not lose rights depending on what type of Creative Commons license they select when publishing their article.
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