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Wiley

As part of the Projekt Deal, the University of Cologne concluded an initial contract with Wiley based on the read-and-publish model for the period 2019 - 2023. In the meantime, the second DEAL contract has been signed with Wiley for the period 2024 - 2028.

As a scientist at the University of Cologne and the University Hospital of Cologne, you can publish in hybrid and gold open access journals from Wiley. New from 2024 is the publication-specific billing of individual Open Access articles. The hybrid publications have fixed prices according to a tier model, which we will invoice to your faculty. For publishing in pure Open Access journals, you will be granted a 20% discount on the list prices of the Article Processing Charges (APCs). The UCL subsidises the publications of scientists (not clinicians) with €700.00 per article.

In addition, you have free online access to almost the entire Wiley journal portfolio on the Wiley Online Library platform. Prerequisite: You access the journals from the university network.

Publishing in so-called Hybrid Open Access

Publications by authorised authors can currently be published Open Access in around 1,300 Wiley subscription journals.

For the new Wiley contract from 2024, the journals will be divided into three different tiers/categories, each with different PAR fees:

  • Tier I journals operate, for example, full-time, permanent editorial offices or are run by full-time editors-in-chief, i.e. employed by Wiley or a professional society. They have hybrid APC list prices outside of DEAL of over EUR 3,500 - however, the APC price alone is not decisive.
  • Tier II & III journals are differentiated according to their respective ownership status (Tier II - journals from scientific societies or Wiley's own)

Costs

  • Tier I: € 3,150.00 net plus € 100.00 service fee plus VAT.
  • Tier II: € 2,700.00 net plus € 100.00 service fee plus VAT
  • Tier III: € 2,200.00 net plus € 100.00 service charge plus VAT.

The publication costs are covered by central funds in the university and research library. Before payment, we will ask you for third-party funds that should be used preferentially. The costs can be split between central and third-party funds.

The costs of publications by scientists at the medical faculty are covered centrally by the medical faculty/university hospital.

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Publishing in so-called Gold Open Access

If you would like to publish an article in a Wiley Open Access journal (called “Fully Open Access” by Wiley), you will receive a 20 percent discount on the author fees due to your affiliation with the University of Cologne or the University Hospital of Cologne. The articles will be pre-financed by MPDL Services gGmbH (subsidiary of the Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science) during the course of the year and then invoiced at the end of each year. A minimum share of €600.00 and a maximum share of €1,500.00 will be charged for authors affiliated with the hospital/faculty of medicine. Please inform yourself in good time about the costs incurred. 

The costs of the other faculties will be covered centrally, whereby third-party funds for (partial) financing will be requested from the USB Cologne.

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Other publication fees

Further publication fees, which may be charged in addition to the Article Processing Charges (APCs), are not covered by Projekt DEAL and will be charged to you in full. These include charges for colour figures/author colour artwork, illustrations, photographs, line drawings, charges for insight/back covers and page charges for overlength.

Service fee

A service fee of € 100.00 net is due for all items in the DEAL contract.

Full Reading Access

Wiley's entire journal portfolio with about 1,700 journals as well as archive rights to full texts from the year of publication 1997 onwards are available on the University of Cologne's network. Use the UCL-Portal or the overview of the electronic journals of the University of Cologne by subject area to find the appropriate offer.
 

Further Information

Please note:

Please do not decide against the Open Access option.

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