Wiley (NYSE: WLY) today announced its intent to enter a new five-year agreement with the DEAL Consortium, a countrywide consortium representative of more than 1,000 academic institutions in Germany, commencing January 2024. Wiley and DEAL are creating a blueprint for the next phase of open access publishing to better meet the evolving needs of the scholarly community.
Wiley and DEAL will build on the unprecedented success achieved in their first five years of partnership, which has resulted in:
- Nearly 100% of eligible hybrid DEAL articles published open access across Wiley’s portfolio.
- 90% of Wiley’s article output from Germany published open access. Increased usage of research content in Germany by 83%, resulting in nearly 20 million full text downloads in 2022 alone.
- Rapid growth in usage of German-authored content globally, especially in low-income countries.
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