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UM Open Access Publishing with Transformative Agreements

Wiley Tranformative Agreement with UM

Wiley has published 300+ full Gold OA journals and more than 1,300 hybrid journals that offer an OA option, covering subjects across the humanities, social sciences, science, technology, and medicine. 

The OA agreement between the UM Library and Wiley covers all Gold OA and Hybrid journals.

 

Publish open access with Wiley

Authors affiliated with University of Macau may publish in Wiley’s journals which offer open access, with no transactional Article Publication Charges (APC).

You can be confident that by choosing open access your work has the best chance to be read, cited and shared. Author(s) also retain the copyright through Creative Commons license.

 

To be eligible, articles must:

  • The responsible corresponding author must be affiliated with University of Macau at the point of acceptance.
  • You must publish open access in a hybrid (subscription) journal that offers open access, or submit your article to a fully open access journal under the Wiley or Hindawi portfolios.
  • Your article must be primary research or a review article, including but not limited to original articles, case studies, reviews, short communications, and other content types.
  • Your article must have been accepted for publication in a Wiley hybrid (subscription) journal, or submitted to a Wiley or Hindawi fully open access on or after 1 January 2024.
  • This agreement cannot be used to cover additional charges (e.g. color or page charges), which individual journals administer separately.

 

OA Publishing Quota for 2024: 72 Articles    

##Note: Articles accepted by publishers will be approved on first-come-first-served basis while quota lasts.

Publishing Procedure

Publishing OA Artlcle in a Wiley Hybrid Journal (Journal providing an OA option)

 

Step 1.

Follow Wiley's article submission workflow as usual. Make sure you have used the UM affiliation, address, and email for yoiur account registration and manuscription submission.

 

Step 2.

Once your article is accepted, register or log in to Wiley Author Services. Under My Articles, look for your article and click Manage Article. Look for a message from your institution or funder and click Select Open Access.

 

Step3. 

You may be asked to add or confirm the funder(s) you entered during submission. Select your funder from the dropdown list or click Add Funder and start typing to search. You may also tick “I did not receive funding for this article.” Then, enter any grant details.

 

Step 4.

You may be asked to add or confirm the affiliation(s) you entered during submission. You may also tick “I am not affiliated with any institution, company, or university for this article.”

 

Step 5. 

You may be asked to make your article open access. When prompted, select “Yes, make my article open access.” 

 

Step6. 

If your request is approved, you will receive a confirmation email. Your accepted article is then published open access under a Creative Commons license on Wiley Online Library.

 

Publishing OA Artlcle in a Wiley Fully Open Access Journal (also known as Gold Open Access Journal)

 

Step 1.

Follow Wiley's article submission workflow as usual. Make sure you have used the UM affiliation, address, and email for yoiur account registration and manuscription submission.

 

Step 2.

During submission, you are asked to select the payment option that says “The Corresponding Author’s institution/ funder has an agreement with Wiley” and follow the instructions to find and enter their account code.

 

Step 3.

If your request is approved, you will receive a confirmation email. Your accepted article is then published open access under a Creative Commons license on Wiley Online Library.

 

Step 1.

All Hindawi journals are fully open access - visit www.wileyopenresearch.com/browsejournals and choose a relevant Hindawi journal for your research.

 

Step 2.

After selecting a suitable journal, you can find the specific submission guidelines via the Author Guidelines link that appears on each journal page on hindawi.com. You should ensure that you have reviewed these carefully and that your manuscript meets the requirements.

 

Step 3.

Once you have submitted your article by clicking the green ‘Submit’ button and providing all the information needed, the manuscript enters the screening process. When prompted to agree to the APC during the pre-submission checklist, please do so. Once the manuscript passes the screening process, the eligibility checks are performed in the back end of the system and your institution is notified of your funding request and asked to approve. This removes the need for any payment from you as an author, with no further action required

 

Step 4.

If your request is approved, you will receive a confirmation email. 

 

List of Wiley and Hindawi Journals Eligible for OA Publishing

The followings are the lists of Wiley and Hindawi journals eligible for Open Access publication under Wiley's Transformative Agreement: