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[Journal] will consider for review articles previously available as preprints. Authors are requested to update any pre-publication versions with a link to the final published article. Authors may also post the final published version of the article immediately after publication.

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California Universities Partner with Wiley on Landmark Open Access Agreement

By admin / January 11, 2024

This post is a press release issued by Wiley, the University of California, and the Statewide California Electronic Library Consortium.

Hoboken, NJ – January 11, 2024 – The 10-campus University of California system and 48 private and public academic and research institutions represented by the Statewide California Electronic Library Consortium (SCELC) have reached a new open access agreement with Wiley, one of the world’s largest publishers. The three-year deal begins this month, and will make more research eligible for open access publication than any partnership of its kind in California. 

“Some of the most groundbreaking research in the world is done right here in California, driving advances in medicine, environmental sustainability and society. I am excited about this opportunity for more California scholars, from UC and beyond, to make their work freely available so that people around the globe can benefit from and build on their discoveries,” said Maria DePrano, professor of art history at UC Merced and chair of the UC faculty Academic Senate’s systemwide committee on library and scholarly communication. “I appreciate the partnership of our colleagues at SCELC and Wiley for making open access to California research possible at this scale.”

This transformative agreement builds on existing partnerships over the past few years and will provide researchers and students with continued access to subscription content and funding support for open access publication in Wiley’s expansive journal portfolio. 

“We’re very proud to continue our partnership with the University of California and SCELC, who are taking a revolutionary approach to advancing open access in the United States,” said Liz Ferguson, senior vice president, Wiley Research Publishing. “This new agreement will deliver even more benefits for scholars in California and will advance our shared aim of making scientific research more widely available.”  

The agreement redirects existing library subscription funds to enable authors at the participating institutions to publish articles open access at lower or no cost in more than 1,600 hybrid and gold open access Wiley journals. Authors with grant funds available pay a discounted open access publishing fee; the cost is covered in full for those who lack funding for publication.

“As a consortium, SCELC includes a diverse array of institutions with a range of research output. This agreement ensures access for our broad coalition of scholars while also helping smaller institutions manage costs,” said Lev Rickards, assistant dean for collections and scholarly communication and chair of SCELC’s Scholarly Communication Committee. “Wiley’s willingness to collaborate with us on cost savings says a lot about their commitment to the health of the scholarly communication system.” 

The aim of this transformative agreement is to make it easier and more affordable for authors from SCELC and UC institutions to publish open access rather than behind a paywall, while also controlling the participating institutions’ journal expenditures. Like other transformative agreements at UC and SCELC, this deal aligns with the institutions’ missions and contributes to the global shift towards sustainable open access publishing by making more research and scholarship from California freely available to the world.

Commitment to protecting author rights

The University of California’s 2023 agreement with Wiley broke new ground on another priority for UC faculty: author rights. As part of this new agreement, Wiley will make a good faith effort to develop a new global license to publish agreement over the next six months. The goal, except for limited use-cases, is for authors to retain unrestricted rights to their own work. 

The agreement demonstrates how innovative, multi-institution partnerships can play a vital role in the open access movement by ensuring that researchers at academic institutions of all types can fully engage in the benefits of open access publishing.

For more information, please see our FAQ on the Wiley agreement .

About Wiley Wiley is a knowledge company and a global leader in research, publishing and knowledge solutions. Dedicated to the creation and application of knowledge, Wiley serves the world’s researchers, learners, innovators and leaders, helping them achieve their goals and solve the world’s most important challenges. For more than two centuries, Wiley has been delivering on its timeless mission to unlock human potential. Visit  Wiley.com . Follow Wiley on  Facebook ,  Twitter ,  LinkedIn and  Instagram . 

About the University of California Libraries and Open Access at UC Individually and collectively, the University of California libraries provide access to the world’s knowledge for the UC campuses and the communities they serve, directly supporting UC’s missions of teaching, research and public service. Open access publishing supports the mission of the University of California by transmitting knowledge more broadly and facilitating new discoveries that build on the University’s research and scholarly work. UC generates nearly 10 percent of all research output in the United States; half of which is eligible for open access publishing under one of the university’s 15 transformative agreements. Learn more about open access at UC .

About the Statewide California Electronic Library Consortium Among the top five North American consortia in terms of licensing volume, SCELC represents 112 Member institutions, over 200 Affiliate institutions, an aggregate student population of approximately 500,000, more than $200 million in library budgets, and holdings comprising more than 21 million volumes. SCELC libraries can license nearly 2,500 electronic resources from more than 100 vendors. SCELC’s read-and-publish open access agreements and renewals are guided by transformative agreement goals and values established and prioritized by its member institutions.

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Wiley shuts 19 scholarly journals amid AI paper mill problems

Fake science challenges academic publishing.

US publishing house Wiley this week discontinued 19 scientific journals overseen by its Hindawi subsidiary, the center of a long-running scholarly publishing scandal.…

In December 2023 Wiley announced it would stop using the Hindawi brand, acquired in 2021, following its decision in May 2023 to shut four of its journals "to mitigate against systematic manipulation of the publishing process."

Hindawi's journals were found to be publishing papers from paper mills – organizations or groups of individuals who try to subvert the academic publishing process for financial gain. Over the past two years, a Wiley spokesperson told The Register, the publisher has retracted more than 11,300 papers from its Hindawi portfolio.

As described in a Wiley-authored white paper published last December, "Tackling publication manipulation at scale: Hindawi’s journey and lessons for academic publishing," paper mills rely on various unethical practices – such as the use of AI in manuscript fabrication and image manipulations, and gaming the peer review process.

The Hindawi affair coincided with the departure of Wiley president and CEO Brian Napack in October, 2023. In its fiscal Q2 2024 earnings report [PDF] last December, Wiley admitted its $18 million decline in research publishing revenue was "mainly due to the Hindawi publishing disruption."

In January, Wiley signed on to United2Act – an industry initiative to combat paper mills.

But the concern over scholarly research integrity isn't confined to Wiley publications. A study published in Nature last July suggests as many as a quarter of clinical trials are problematic or entirely fabricated.

The increasing availability and sophistication of generative AI is not the only factor contributing to the academic publishing crisis, but AI tools make fakery easier.

"The industry recognizes that AI is utilized by paper mills to generate fraudulent content," Wiley's spokesperson told us. "We've recently introduced a new screening technology that helps identify papers with potential misuse of generative AI before the point of publication."

According to a preprint paper released in February, the volume of papers submitted to ArXiv increased considerably in the top three categories between 2019 and 2023 – a period that roughly coincides with the debut of tools like ChatGPT. Computer science papers increased by 200 percent during these four years, followed by physics papers (45 percent) and mathematics (22 percent).

Academic publishers, however, appear to want the benefits of AI writing assistance without the downsides. Springer Nature, for example, last October launched Curie – an AI-powered writing assistant intended to help scientists whose first language is not English. Hence calls for better tools [PDF] to detect generative AI output – a call answered by recent efforts to improve AI content watermarking – which some researchers argue won't work.

A Wiley spokesperson characterized the decision to shut the 19 journals as part of its previously announced plan to integrate the Hindawi and Wiley portfolios, and distinct from the paper mill issue.

"As part of this integration, and as is standard practice, we reviewed our journal portfolio and decided to close 19 Hindawi journals that no longer serve their communities," the spokesperson told The Register.

"It is important to draw a distinction between the journal closures occurring now as part of our portfolio integration and the four journals closed in May 2023. The journals closed in May 2023 were heavily impacted by paper mills to such an extent it was in the best interest of the scholarly community to discontinue them immediately."

Meanwhile, in Wiley's fiscal Q3 2024 earnings report, the publisher noted that revenue for its learning division is expected to be toward the higher end of projections due to "Q4 content rights deals for training AI models." ®