Wiley publishes nearly 1500 journals http://olabout.wiley.com/WileyCDA/
1064 of them are Wiley-Blackwell journals according to SHERPA-Romeo http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/pub/580/ And 246 of the John Wiley and Sons journals according to SHERPA-Romeo http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/pub/45/ Wiley Open Access publishes 12 pure-Gold OA journals (cost c. $2000 - $3000) http://www.wileyopenaccess.com/details/content/12f25d2979e/Authors.html In addition the Wiley OnlineOpen Hybrid Gold OA option (cost c. $3000) is available for some 1240 Wiley journals (80%), eight of them now offering CC-BY. http://olabout.wiley.com/WileyCDA/Section/id-40 The SHERPA-Romeo information (as well as the Wiley information) on Wiley's policy on un-embargoed Gratis Green OA self-archiving is now quite complicated and difficult to understand, so let me put a very simple, straight-forward question to John Wiley & Sons (Wiley-1) and to Wiley-Blackwell (Wiley-2) publishers: Does Wiley-1/Wiley-2, like Springer, formally recognize its authors' right to make their final, refereed drafts OA immediately upon publication (no embargo) by self-archiving them in their institutional OA repository (Green OA)? If the answer is yes, then the 1240 Wiley paid Gold OA options and the eight of them with CC-BY are a very welcome and positive step. If, unlike Springer (which also offers paid Gold, both full and hybrid), Wiley-1/Wiley-2 embargoes Green OA, then Wiley's Gold OA options (including CC-BY) are a Trojan Horse, and a highly expensive one, blocking Green OA in order to force authors who want to provide immediate OA to pay for it, even though institutional subscriptions are paying publication costs in full. In the latter case, CC-BY is an (easy) sop, providing something that only a few sub-fields need (CC-BY) at the cost of denying all fields what they urgently need (OA) unless they are able and willing to pay Wiley even more money for it. A clear, unequivocal answer from Wiley-1/Wiley-2 could settle this at once. And then we'll know whether Wiley's recent PR is indeed progress for OA, or another attempt to block it (until it comes on the publisher's financial terms). Stevan Harnad On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 10:09 AM, Jonathan Gray <[email protected]>wrote: > This is fantastic Ross! A very welcome development. :-) > > On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 3:59 PM, Naomi Lillie <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Great news, Ross! A sign that the hard work you, PMR and others are > putting > > in is making a *big* difference :-) > > > > > > On 14 August 2012 14:56, Ross Mounce <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> Just a quick note: > >> > >> Wiley have sent out a press release today to announce that they have > >> changed the licensing conditions of their 'WileyOpenAccess' branded > >> journals. > >> http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/PressRelease/pressReleaseId-104537.html > >> > >> They have now adopted the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) licence. > >> > >> I and many others have repeatedly pointed out that the label > >> 'WileyOpenAccess' doesn't fit the CC BY-NC license they were previously > >> using. So this is a small but welcome victory for common sense and Open > >> Access. > >> > >> > >> Best, > >> > >> Ross > >> > >> Related links: > >> http://ucfagls.wordpress.com/2012/07/17/sometimes-i-am-lost-for-words/&; > >> > http://svpow.com/2012/07/03/dear-wiley-please-use-creative-commons-attribution-for-your-open-access-activities/ > >> > >> -- > >> -/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/- > >> Ross Mounce > >> PhD Student & Panton Fellow > >> Fossils, Phylogeny and Macroevolution Research Group > >> University of Bath, 4 South Building, Lab 1.07 > >> http://about.me/rossmounce > >> -/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/- > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> open-access mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/open-access > >> > > > > > > > > -- > > Naomi Lillie > > Foundation Administrator and Community Coordinator > > Open Knowledge Foundation > > http://okfn.org/ > > Skype: n.lillie > > > > _______________________________________________ > > open-access mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/open-access > > > > > > -- > Jonathan Gray > > Head of Community > The Open Knowledge Foundation > http://www.okfn.org > > http://twitter.com/jwyg > _______________________________________________ > GOAL mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal >
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