05/01/2023
By Sara Marks
As part of our Wiley subscription, we are now able to cover all of your publishing costs in Wiley owned publications if you make your articles open access. This is part of a growing program of support from us to make work open access.
When you submit your article to a Wiley publication, you’ll be notified that you can make your article open access. This means it will be publicly accessible once approved for publication. When you select that option, the library is notified and our subscription covers the cost Wiley charges for UMass Lowell authors (faculty, staff, and graduate students). You don’t have to pay any additional fee to make sure the public can read and share your article. This doesn’t change your process for submitting, editing, and publishing articles. It’s our way of helping you get your article beyond the paywall and into the public.
Open access articles are free and digitally accessible to anyone who wishes to read them. They are often identified by the orange icon of an unlocked padlock. They go through the same rigorous peer review process as other scholarly articles. The difference is in how accessible these articles are to the public. They don’t get stored behind paywalls or require high fees to access. In 2022 the U.S. federal government expanded open access requirements. Almost all articles written about research funded with public funds will soon need to be published as open access. The University Library is taking the lead on campus to make this easier for our community.
To learn more about this new service, please contact Amanda Rust,the Library’s Associate Director for Research & Learning.