7 August 2019
Wiley and VIVA, Virginia’s academic library consortium, have announced the signing of an agreement which combines open access publishing funds with their journal subscriptions; the first of its kind in North America.
The two-year pilot uses the Wiley Open Access Account solution to allow VIVA researchers to publish in fully gold open access journals using a central fund for article publication charges (APCs).
The Wiley Open Access Account includes a dashboard for administration, providing a view of publishing activity with reporting functionality. The consortia dashboard view enables management of payment requests from authors for their open access APCs. The tool also streamlines backend processes.
The pilot agreement will begin in 2020, and all participating VIVA member institutions and affiliated researchers are included and may apply for funding of gold open access articles.