Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc., US, has announced revised licensing arrangements for proprietary journals published under the Wiley Open Access programme. The journals will adopt the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) licence which allows commercial use of published articles.
The Wiley Open Access portfolio also includes journals published with society partners, many of which will similarly transfer to the Creative Commons Attribution licence.
Wiley is responding to recent developments in funder and government policies and supports the sustainable evolution of scientific publishing. The change will be implemented immediately. According to Rachel Burley, Vice President and Director, Open Access, while this announcement concerns Wiley’s fully open access journals, the company is also reviewing the licensing arrangements for its hybrid programme OnlineOpen.
In the first instance, the journals moving to the CC-BY licence are: Brain and Behavior, Ecology and Evolution, MicrobiologyOpen, Cancer Medicine, Food Science & Nutrition, Evolutionary Applications, Geoscience Data Journal and EMBO Molecular Medicine. The CC-BY licence allows (with the correct attribution of the original creator) for the copying, distribution and transmission of the work. Adaption and commercial use is also permitted.
