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Wiley has signed more than 125 transformational agreements with library consortia and institutions worldwide, expanding its global read-and-publish footprint and supporting the publication of more than 95,000 open access articles, the company announced.
The agreements now cover more than 3,500 institutions across 45 countries, reflecting the rapid acceleration of read-and-publish models in recent years. Wiley said it has invested in technology, training, and research infrastructure to improve the author experience, safeguard research integrity, and enhance the discoverability of peer-reviewed content. These recurring-revenue agreements are designed to provide institutions with broad read access while removing financial barriers for individual researchers to publish open access.
Wiley’s largest multi-year agreements include national and regional consortia such as DEAL in Germany, CAPES in Brazil, TÜBİTAK in Türkiye, Jisc in the UK, CAUL in Australia and New Zealand, CDL and SCELC in the US, and OASE in Japan. Collectively, these arrangements represent more than 1,500 institutions worldwide.
The company said transformational agreements have increasingly become the standard approach for major academic libraries, enabling affiliated researchers to publish open access across Wiley’s journal portfolio with costs typically managed at an institutional level.
“Seven years after our first agreement, we’re seeing the transformative impact these models can have – not just in making more research available, but in fundamentally changing how knowledge flows across borders and disciplines, all while creating healthy, sustainable models for both institutions and publishers,” said Kathryn Sharples, Group Vice President, Publishing Strategy & Policy at Wiley. “We continue to work with institutions, consortia, funders, and societies to create sustainable pathways that advance the shared goal of making research more widely accessible and impactful while ensuring long-term value for all partners in the scholarly ecosystem.”
Wiley provides institutional access to nearly 2,000 journals through a combination of multi-year subscriptions and transformational agreements, and said its open access strategy is intended to accelerate discovery and support research addressing global challenges such as healthcare, climate science, and technology.