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Self-Archiving with Wiley

Publishing your work open access means it’s available  for anyone to read, use and build upon – giving your article the best possible chance to be read and cited, while enabling faster innovation and removing  barriers to readership.

Researchers need choice as much as they need openness, which means publishers have a responsibility to offer multiple paths to open access. We have nearly 600 fully open access journals and 95% of our subscription journals offer a hybrid option for both self-archiving and gold open access models. 

What is self-archiving? 

The author, institution or publisher places a version of a subscription article in an online repository and/or website.*

  • The submitted version of the article can be self-archived immediately.
  • The accepted version of the article can be self-archived after an embargo period.

The article is made freely and permanently available online.

All open versions of an article should have a user license attached. The author retains the right to use their article for a wide range  of purposes.

Self-archiving policies vary by journal.  Check a journals’ policy here.

The are several options for article  self-archiving: 

  • Authors can link to the article’s journal. 
  • For selected journals, we make the article freely available after an embargo period in the open archives.** 
  • Authors can self-archive their manuscript. 

No fee is payable by the author.

* Articles may be placed on the author’s personal website, their company/ institutional repository, and not-for-profit subject-based repositories  (such as PubMed Central). 

**If the article is: 

1)  funded by an NIH funding institute, or
2)  published as open access and funded by a PMC partner or Europe PMC funder, or
3)  published open access in a MEDLINE-indexed journal, or
4)  published in a Journal with a Full Participation Agreement with PMC; the  final published version1 will become freely available on PMC/Europe PMC,  the full-text archive of scientific literature in the biomedical and life sciences.
1  For NIH funded articles that are not published open access, the author manuscript will be deposited in PMC, rather than the final published version.

 

The Road to Self-Archiving

Helping authors navigate their self-archiving journey with Wiley

 

START

  1. Check if your funder and institution have any specific self-archiving requirements, either directly with them, or via our Author Compliance Tool.
  2. Submit your manuscript in the usual way. Please answer any funding questions when prompted.
  3. Sign and submit the copyright license agreement which will be sent to you by the Wiley Author Licensing Service or the journal’s editorial office.
  4. The final version of your article is published on Wiley Online Library, available to readers who have the necessary access rights.

FINISH

After observing any embargo  periods you may self-archive  your manuscript.

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