Wiley and German DEAL Consortium to Sign New 5-Year Agreement
October 19 2023 - 11:48AM
Business Wire
Building on Past Successes, New Agreement Will
Pave the Way for Next Phase of OA Transition
Wiley (NYSE: WLY) today announced its intent to enter a new
five-year agreement with the DEAL Consortium, a countrywide
consortium representative of more than 1,000 academic institutions
in Germany, commencing January 2024. Wiley and DEAL are creating a
blueprint for the next phase of open access publishing to better
meet the evolving needs of the scholarly community.
Wiley was the first publisher to sign an agreement with DEAL,
which makes this partnership the most robust and long-lasting in
Germany. Their new agreement will continue to provide authors at
German institutions with open access publishing options across
Wiley’s portfolio. This includes read access to all Wiley journal
content. Importantly, the new agreement will deliver ever-more
benefits for the German research system by:
- Supporting institutions in the transition to OA and honoring
the immense value learned societies bring to the scholarly
community.
- Recognizing the unique investment needs of journals that
deliver multiple forms of impact to their researcher
communities.
- Enhancing infrastructure, including robust workflows to support
authors, readers, and librarians, as well as approval and oversight
for administrators for OA articles.
- Supporting participating institutions with bespoke training and
deepening collaboration with the well-established Wiley DEAL
Advisory Board to monitor success.
“We’re extremely proud to build on five years of success with
the DEAL Consortium and are committed to driving results for the
German research community,” said Liz Ferguson, Senior Vice
President, Wiley Research Publishing. “Our new commitment
represents a next-generation model for the global scholarly
community and showcases how publishers can support an open
future.”
Prof. Günter M. Ziegler, president of Freie Universität Berlin
and DEAL’s lead negotiator, said: “I am very pleased with the
outcome of these negotiations, which resulted in a very good opt-in
offer for libraries to provide open access publishing services to
the German scientific community. We have achieved our goal of
finding a sustainable model for German institutions and Wiley. I
would like to express my gratitude to all parties involved in this
collaborative process. The result is not only a very good
continuation of the pioneering Wiley-DEAL contract 2019-2023, but
also fosters a mutually rewarding partnership.”
Consensus on commercial terms has been achieved between the
negotiating teams. The final agreement is expected to be signed in
mid-November. Shortly thereafter, DEAL institutions will be invited
to migrate to the new agreement to continue to benefit from well
established, comprehensive open access publishing options and
continued access to Wiley's extensive portfolio of scholarly
journals.
Wiley and DEAL will build on the unprecedented success achieved
in their first five years of partnership, which has resulted
in:
- Nearly 100% of eligible hybrid DEAL articles published open
access across Wiley’s portfolio.
- 90% of Wiley’s article output from Germany published open
access.
- Increased usage of research content in Germany by 83%,
resulting in nearly 20 million full text downloads in 2022
alone.
- Rapid growth in usage of German-authored content globally,
especially in low-income countries
The original agreement with DEAL was one of Wiley’s first
transformative open access agreements and a cornerstone of the
publisher’s approach to open access. Wiley has signed open access
agreements with approximately 80 partners worldwide, which cover
over 2,500 institutions.
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