John Wiley and Sons Inc. and The Virtual Library of Virginia (VIVA), Virginia’s academic library consortium, have signed a comprehensive agreement which combines open access publishing funds with their journal subscriptions - the first of its kind in North America.
The two-year pilot utilises the Wiley Open Access Account solution to allow VIVA researchers to publish in fully gold open access journals using a central fund for article publication charges (APCs). This pivotal agreement reflects both Wiley’s and VIVA’s dedication to moving deliberately towards a more sustainable and open access environment. This pilot will allow VIVA and its members to have greater visibility into publishing activities and researchers’ funding across their institutions.
The Wiley Open Access Account includes a dashboard for administration, providing an easy to use and transparent view of publishing activity with reporting functionality. The consortia dashboard view enables management of payment requests from authors for their open access APCs. The tool also streamlines backend processes which results in improved speed of research dissemination.
The pilot agreement begins in 2020, and all participating VIVA member institutions and affiliated researchers are included and may apply for funding of gold open access articles.
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