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CWRU Open Access Agreements and Other Funding

CWRU authors are able to publish open access at no cost in select journals through agreements with several publishers. This guide provides details on each agreement for CWRU authors as well as alternative no cost options and funding possibilities..

Wiley Article Limit for 2025

The annual 2025 calendar year limit has been reached for APC-fee-waived Open Access publishing in Wiley hybrid journals.

The Wiley deal has a maximum number of articles per year that may be published as Open Access under this agreement. The 2025 calendar year limit has been reached for article in Wiley's hybrid journals. Corresponding authors will no longer see the option to publish Open Access at no charge during their article publishing process. Corresponding authors have two options: 1) they can choose to publish Open Access on their own and pay the APC (with a 10% discount), or 2) if they are submitting to a hybrid journal, they can choose to publish the article under the traditional subscription access model at no charge, then submit the Accepted [peer reviewed] manuscript version to CWRU's open access repository, Scholarly Commons. For more information on submitting to Scholarly Commons, contact scholarlycomm@case.edu.

**Note that corresponding authors in Wiley’s fully Open Access journals are still able to make provisional requests for coverage at submission, which will be subject to confirmation of coverage availability and verification of institution affiliation at editorial acceptance.

Through our OhioLINK agreement, CWRU students, faculty, and staff can publish open access (OA) in select Wiley journals at no additional cost to either the author or the institution. This means that CWRU authors can publish an article as OA without paying any Article Publication Charge (APC). Any extra page or color image charges are the responsibility of the author.

To be eligible:

  • Accepted between March 1, 2022 through December 31, 2026
  • Accepted in select hybrid or fully OA journals* (see lists below
    • *Hybrid journals are those that publish both subscription based and OA articles, while fully OA journals only publish OA articles.
  • The responsible corresponding author must be affiliated with CWRU
    • For Fully OA Journals, affiliation is determined at submission and affirmed again at acceptance
    • For Hybrid Journals, affiliation is determined at acceptance
  • Article type must be review or research
  • Accepted before we reach our yearly article cap

Note: There is a statewide article limit each calendar year (Jan-Dec). Once we reach the article limit for a given year, we can no longer offer OA APC coverage. This is a first-come-first-serve opportunity. In 2024, we reached our article cap limit for Wiley in October.

If your article meets the eligibility criteria and we have not reached our article limit for the year, the publisher's system will offer the no-cost OA publishing option at acceptance. Learn more about this process below.

Publishing Process in Fully OA Journal

Publishing Process in Hybrid Journal