Breakdown of negotiations with Wiley
The agreement between UiB and Wiley expired at the end of 2024, and negotiations for a new agreement have now been halted. The consequences for us are as follows:
Employees and students at UiB will retain reading access to most articles published by Wiley up until and including 2024.
- Employees and students at UiB will not have reading access to articles published in Wiley’s journals during 2025.
For more information or assistance, please contact your local library (https://www.uib.no/ub).
Consequences for open publishing:
- Publishing in fully open-access journals, often referred to as “gold open access,” is not affected by the breakdown of negotiations with Wiley.
- Open publishing in Wiley’s closed-access journals will no longer function as before, since UiB no longer has a publish-and-read agreement with the publisher.
- To make articles published with Wiley under closed access openly available, you can use UiB’s rights retention policy:
Rights retention policy for open access to scholarly articles | University of Bergen Library | UiB
- The rights retention policy ensures that as a researcher at UiB, you are guaranteed the right to immediately make your research articles openly available in BORA, UiB’s institutional archive, regardless of whether you publish in a fully open-access journal or not.
More information in the attached document (in Norwegian)
