John Wiley & Sons, Inc., today announced revised licensing arrangements
for proprietary journals published under the Wiley
Open Access program. 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.
Rachel Burley, Vice President and Director, Open Access, commented,
“Wiley is committed to meeting the evolving needs of the authors who
wish to provide open access to the published articles that convey the
results of their research.”
Burley continued, “Our announcement today concerns Wiley’s fully open
access journals. We are also reviewing the licensing arrangements for
our hybrid program OnlineOpen, our open access option for individual
articles published in subscription journals. In consultation with our
publishing partners, we aim to continue to develop and deliver
sustainable open access products providing author choice and high levels
of service.”
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.
More information
about Wiley’s open access initiatives is available online.
