EHU researchers have enjoyed fee-free open access publishing with Wiley since March. This post reports on a temporary ‘lever’ being applied to the deal, restricting researchers’ ability to publish open access.

Announced in March, the deal has enabled UK-based researchers to publish research articles in Wiley academic journals without facing open access charges.
To date, seven articles have been published by Edge Hill researchers through this arrangement, and ₤10,226 has been waived. However, since the deal has been hugely popular with UK researchers, a limit or ‘cap’ is set to be reached ahead of schedule – this determines how many articles can benefit.
As a result, only research funded by certain funders will be eligible for the deal from 12 October. The funders are: Wellcome, UKRI, Blood Cancer UK, British Heart Foundation, Cancer Research UK, Parkinson’s UK and Versus Arthritis.
Funds will be replenished for the start of 2021 so researchers can resume using the deal as normal from then. Jisc has provided more deals here: https://www.jisc.ac.uk/blog/the-uk-wiley-read-and-publish-agreement-nine-months-on-25-sep-2020#
Open access options for researchers
If you had planned to use the deal for publishing your next journal article, but would now like to look into other options, please see our ‘Open access options for researchers’ webpage: https://go.edgehill.ac.uk/display/ls/Open+access+options+for+researchers
Please email [email protected] if you would like to discuss this further.