For 2026, ULS and HSLS negotiated with Wiley to receive a higher annual institutional limit on the number of articles eligible for open access (OA) article processing charge (APC) coverage. Unlike our Elsevier agreement, this agreement does cover all hybrid and gold open access journals (use Wiley’s journal finder for the most accurate title listing – journals may change publishers).
Note, all other conditions still apply, including:
- only corresponding authors currently enrolled as students or employed at the University of Pittsburgh or UPMC, at the time of article’s acceptance for publication, are eligible
- other publishing fees, such as page/figure/submission charges, are not covered by this agreement
- eligible article types include original research, review articles, and case studies; types like commentaries or letters to the editor are not eligible
- APC coverage is conditional, and submission of an article to one of Wiley’s journals does not guarantee APC coverage
An APC for an article is covered under our agreement only if/when all four of the following conditions are met:
- the corresponding author’s affiliation is verified as eligible,
- the manuscript has gone through peer review and is formally accepted for publication,
- the author selects an open access license and signs the publisher’s agreement, and
- the number of articles published under the agreement has not reached our institutional limit for the year.
If the number of articles published under the agreement has reached our institutional limit for the year, corresponding authors will be responsible for any invoice received from the publisher, no matter the article submission date.
For more information on Wiley’s agreement or about other OA agreements, please see the Open Access Publishing Agreements page or contact us at ULS-PublishingOpenAccess@pitt.edu.
~Melissa Ratajeski