15 January 2019
John Wiley & Sons has announced a partnership agreement with Projekt DEAL, a representative of nearly 700 academic institutions in Germany. The three-year agreement will provide all Projekt DEAL institutions with access to read Wiley’s academic journals back to the year 1997, and researchers at Projekt DEAL institutions can publish articles open access in Wiley’s journals.
Wiley and Projekt DEAL are together launching three new initiatives as part of the partnership, the first being a new interdisciplinary open access journal. Wiley and Projekt DEAL will also establish an open science and author services development group focused on innovating and accelerating new publishing approaches, and create and host a new annual symposium for early-career German researchers focusing on ideas on the future of research communications.
In order to enable the signing of the Projekt DEAL contract with Wiley, the Max Planck Society, as a member of the Alliance of Science Organisations behind the Projekt DEAL Consortium, founded MPDL Services.
“Following the request of the alliance of research organisations in Germany, we have been happy to organise and implement this national contract with Wiley. This is in full accordance with efforts such as OA2020 that the Max Planck Society has undertaken over many years to promote open access of scientific publications, to invest in modern scientific publishing methods and to make sure that the copyrights of scientific articles stay where these belong, namely with our scientists“, said Max Planck President, Martin Stratmann.