John Wiley & Sons, Inc., announced today its new membership of the Open
Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA). OASPA represents
the interests of open access journal publishers globally in all
scientific, technical and scholarly disciplines and enables exchange of
information, setting standards, advancing models, advocacy, education,
and the promotion of innovation.
“We are pleased to become members of OASPA,” said Rachel Burley, Vice
President & Director, Open Access, Wiley. “We support the OASPA’s goals
of sharing knowledge and best practice, and developing sustainable OA
publishing models.”
Wiley has had an open access offering for authors since 2004 in the form
of OnlineOpen, a hybrid open access model for subscription journals,
which last month extended to over 80% of Wiley journals. OnlineOpen is
available to authors of primary research articles who wish to make their
article available to non-subscribers on publication, or whose funding
agency requires grantees to archive the final version of their article.
In early 2011 Wiley launched Wiley Open Access, a fully open access
journal program, which already contains eleven journals. Wiley Open
Access provides open access publication in peer-reviewed journals where
all published articles are immediately freely available to read,
download and share.
In addition to extending the availability of OnlineOpen this year, Wiley
also announced the appointment of its first Vice President & Director of
Open Access in June and earlier this month moved all fully open access
proprietary journals to the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY)
licence which allows commercial use of published articles.
“We see our new membership of OASPA as a further step on our journey to
develop a wide range of sustainable publishing routes to suit the needs
of all of our partners,” said Steve Miron, Senior Vice President &
Managing Director, Scientific, Technical, Medical, and Scholarly, Wiley.
More information
about Wiley’s open access initiatives is available online.
