John Wiley & Sons, Inc. has announced a new open access agreement with the Conference of Rectors of Spanish Universities (Crue Universidades Españolas) and the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) to drive an increase in open access publishing among 59 Spanish universities and CSIC, the largest research institution in Spain. Together, Crue-CSIC represent nearly 200,000 researchers across Spain.
This read and publish agreement, initially for one year, is part of a longer partnership between Wiley and Crue-CSIC. The agreement allows researchers at participating institutions to both access Wiley’s journals and to publish accepted articles open access in Wiley’s hybrid journals, which contain both subscription and open access content. As a result of the agreement, an estimated 70% of articles published by participating institutions in 2021 will be open access, enabling more research from leading Spanish institutions to be read, cited and built upon.
According to Judy Verses, Executive Vice President, Wiley Research, this agreement enables Crue-CSIC researchers to add a substantial number of new open access articles to the scholarly record, broadening the dissemination of key findings and facilitating scientific discovery.
This agreement marks Wiley’s thirteenth open access agreement globally and eleventh in Europe, including a ground-breaking agreement with Projekt DEAL in Germany. Just this year, Wiley has announced new agreements with Iowa State University in the United States, the Conference of Italian University Rectors (CRUI) in Italy, and IReL in Ireland, as well as the strategic acquisition of Hindawi Limited, an innovator and fully open access publisher.
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