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swissuniversities has concluded a new Read&Publish agreement with John Wiley & Sons. It will provide students and researchers from over 40 Swiss higher education and research institutions access to the Wiley Online Library with over 1’450 journals.

The agreement came into force on 1 January 2021 and is valid until 31 December 2024. From 1 May 2021, authors affiliated to swissuniversities member institutions and further institutional clients of the Consortium of Swiss Academic Libraries will be able to publish their accepted research papers fully and immediately in Open Access in Wiley's nearly 1’400 hybrid journals under the Swiss agreement. In addition, this agreement provides full reading rights and permanent access to Wiley's journal portfolio for all researchers and students from the participating institutions.

The second round of negotiations continues in 2024 with Wiley for an agreement from 2025: see overview

Update from 2 October 2024 - publication quota for 2024

This year's open access publication quota is expected to be reached at the beginning of November 2024. Researchers from the participating institutions will therefore no longer be able to publish their scientific articles in open access under the existing consortium agreement from this date onwards and until further notice. They are asked to contact their institution to discuss alternatives. A follow-up agreement with Wiley is currently being negotiated.

Update from 26 April 2024 - Start of negotiations

The negotiation teams from swissuniversities and Wiley opened talks in April for a Read & Publish contract as of 2025.
The discussions are based again on the negotiating mandate for the second round of negotiations, which was approved by the swissuniversities plenary assembly on 3 February 2022, and which was subsequently used for the negotiations with Springer Nature in 2022 and Elsevier in 2023 (see Downloads).

Update from 21 September 2023: publication quota for 2023

Due to the unbroken high demand, the Open Access publication quota will be exhausted in early October 2023. This means that, until the end of 2023, researchers from participating institutions will no longer be able to publish their scientific articles in Open Access under the Consortium agreement with Wiley. They are invited to contact their institution to discuss alternatives. As of January 2024, a new quota will be available for publications with Wiley.

Update from 1 September 2022

The researchers from the participating institutions are publishing a great deal of material, which is a good sign on the journey towards 100% Open Access for 2024. At the same time, however, this means that the Open Access publication quota of Wiley will be reached in mid-September 2022. This means that researchers from participating institutions will no longer be able to publish their scientific articles in Open Access under the Consortium agreement until the end of 2022. They are therefore invited to contact their institution to discuss alternative options. From January 2023, a new quota will be available.

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The 2021 agreement is available on the website of the Consortium of Swiss Academic Libraries at this link. Further details on the scope of the agreement can be found  here.

In 2021, the negotiating parties also concluded a favourable agreement for the Cochrane Library. The Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences (SAMS/ASSM) continues to be the patron of this product. Further details can be found at https://www.samw.ch/en/Projects/Overview-of-projects/Cochrane-Library.html 

Media release, 29.04.2021