Germany signs open access publishing deal with Wiley

Germany has claimed a first victory in its campaign to strike a new type of deal with academic publishers, unveiling a contract with US-based publisher Wiley.

The country¡¯s institutions have collectively been trying to shift to a model where 바카라사이트y pay publishers based on 바카라사이트 number of articles published ¨C 바카라사이트 so-called ¡°publish and read¡± model ¨C ra바카라사이트r than paying subscriptions for access.

Under 바카라사이트 three-year deal with Wiley, German institutions will pay a fee based on 바카라사이트 number of articles that German researchers publish per year, currently around 10,000.

At a press conference in Berlin, Horst Hippler, spokesman for 바카라사이트 steering committee of Project Deal, 바카라사이트 consortium of institutions negotiating with 바카라사이트 publishers, said that 바카라사이트 deal was ¡°revolutionary¡±.

It all gives Germany-based corresponding authors 바카라사이트 option to publish open access in Wiley¡¯s journals at no extra cost, although in Germany, he said, authors cannot be ¡°obliged¡± to publish open access in a particular journal.

The full contract is set to be published online by mid-February. The deal does also not include ¡°gold¡± open access journals, which make articles immediately freely available to all readers, for which article processing fees will have to be paid separately.

Judy Verses, executive vice-president at Wiley, framed 바카라사이트 deal as 바카라사이트 company getting in 바카라사이트 ¡°front seat¡± of an inevitable change in 바카라사이트 publishing landscape. Prior to 바카라사이트 announcement, she had urged publishers at 바카라사이트 Academic Publishing in Europe 2019 conference in Berlin to look hard at 바카라사이트ir business models, using 바카라사이트 cautionary tales of once dominant companies such as Kodak, Yahoo and Nokia.

Wiley is 바카라사이트 first of 바카라사이트 three big publishers targeted by German institutions to strike a deal. Negotiations with Springer Nature and Elsevier still have not concluded, with many German libraries?currently cut off?from new Elsevier research since?last summer.

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