Wiley
1. General overview
Publisher
Wiley
Type of agreement
Publish and read
Agreement period
1.1.2026-31.12.2026
The agreement was renegotiated as a one-year agreement for 2026. See news story.
Title list
Participants in the agreement
License
Administrators at participating institutions can find the license in ConsortiaManager (Edvarda).
2. Publish through the agreement
The agreement provides unlimited publishing in the publisher’s hybrid journals. It covers articles where the corresponding author is affiliated with one of the institutions participating in Sikt’s consortium agreement. For hybrid journals, the date on which the article is accepted for publication determines whether it is covered by the agreement.
How to publish
Publishing workflow (video)
CC licences
The agreement allows publishing under all Creative Commons (CC) licences. Plan S encourages the use of CC BY. The publication workflow will, whenever possible, guide the author to CC BY as the first choice, if this is permitted by the relevant journal and its policies.
Corresponding authors
A Norwegian corresponding author means an author who is employed at one of the institutions participating in the agreement.
The corresponding author is usually the author who contributes the main part of the intellectual work and who is responsible for following the article through to the final product. This person is responsible for manuscript corrections, proofreading, correspondence with the publisher, handling of revisions, and submission of revised manuscripts up to acceptance.
The corresponding author indicates this role when registering the article with Wiley. The author will be approved when they state one of the participating institutions as their place of work.
Journals from learned societies
Wiley administers a number of titles from academic/learned societies. These societies own their journals themselves, and some of these journals are included (offered with) reading access through the Wiley package. They can therefore be read by all participating institutions. The learned societies’ journals are, to a large extent, open to Norwegian researchers publishing with open access.
Self-archiving
Articles that are published open access under the agreement with a CC licence may be shared freely. The publisher’s PDF can be uploaded to NVA and to institutional repositories.
What about Norwegian researchers who are not affiliated with a participating institution?
In general, there is no change for researchers who are not affiliated with a participating institution:
Researchers outside the agreement do not have reading access to the Wiley journal package, but the library can subscribe to individual titles from the publisher. In many cases, the researcher must purchase individual articles or gain access via a larger library that is part of the agreement.
All Norwegian researchers have the opportunity to publish in any of Wiley’s journals. If the researcher is not affiliated with a participating institution (or the journal is not among those covered by the agreement), a publication fee will be required.
3. Reading access
The agreement provides reading access to the publisher’s more than 1,300 journals. The access applies to the 2026 journal list, with annual upgrades.
4. Wiley Open (Gold agreement)
This is a supplementary agreement to the current publish-and-read agreement with Wiley, which will provide a discount on APCs for publishing in gold open access journals. The supplementary agreement is an “opt-in” agreement, meaning that each institution participating in the main agreement can decide whether it wishes to join the supplementary agreement.
The supplementary agreement entails a 15% discount on APCs for publishing in the publisher’s gold open access journals. This includes Hindawi journals. This presupposes central invoicing of APCs to each institution. Invoicing will take place monthly in arrears and will be sent directly from the publisher to the institution.
For institutions that join this supplementary agreement, articles in gold journals will enter the same workflow as hybrid articles and will be approved in Wiley’s same dashboard system. There will be two accounts in the dashboard: one for hybrid and one for gold approval.
Invoicing will be directly from the publisher.
Title list
The gold titles are specified in the title list in item 1, on the “Gold Journals” tab.
Contact
For researchers: Each institution's library manages the agreements. Contact your library if you have questions.
For research administrators: More information (prices, licenses, etc.) can be found in ConsortiaManager (Edvarda) or by contacting Sikt.