Wiley and Projekt DEAL establish groundbreaking partnership for Germany to pilot new publishing models, better enable researchers to create and disseminate knowledge through Wiley’s journals, and continue to provide participating German institutions access to Wiley’s portfolio of academic journals.
HOBOKEN, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (NYSE: JWA and JWB), a global leader in research
and education, announced today a countrywide partnership agreement with
Projekt DEAL, a representative of nearly 700 academic institutions in
Germany. Under an annual fee, this transformative three-year agreement
provides all Projekt DEAL institutions with access to read Wiley’s
academic journals back to the year 1997, and researchers at Projekt DEAL
institutions can publish articles open access in Wiley’s journals. The
partnership will better support institutions and researchers in
advancing open science, driving discovery, and developing and
disseminating knowledge.
To support the overall advancement of scholarly research, Wiley and
Projekt DEAL are together launching three important new initiatives as
part of the partnership. First a new flagship open access journal. This
interdisciplinary journal will publish top-tier scholarship from the
global research community and will serve as a unique forum for the
development of new open access publishing models. In another key aspect
of the agreement, Wiley and Projekt DEAL will establish an open science
and author services development group focused on innovating and
accelerating new publishing approaches. The partners will also create
and host a new annual symposium for early-career German researchers
focused on surfacing cutting-edge ideas on the future of research
communications.
“Wiley is excited to undertake this important partnership with Projekt
DEAL. Our partnership and joint projects reflect Wiley’s commitment to
the research community, with whom we share a belief that advancing
scholarly research and accelerating the creation of knowledge has a
profound and lasting positive impact on society,” said Executive Vice
President of Research at Wiley, Judy Verses. “Wiley and Projekt DEAL
both believe that we can work together to improve and lead the way in
which knowledge is created and shared more openly.”
“With the agreement now reached, an important milestone has been
achieved, " explained Professor Dr. Horst Hippler, former president of
the German Rectors' Conference, speaker of the Steering Committee and
head of the DEAL project. "We have achieved a core goal: a fair pricing
model, which will allow us to make research accessible in an affordable
and sustainable manner. It is revolutionary that we are taking this path
to an open access publication practice together with Wiley. I would like
to thank the Max Planck Society for their support with the
final contract signing.“
In order to enable the signing of the Projekt DEAL contract with Wiley,
the Max Planck Society, as a member of the Alliance of Science
Organisations behind the Projekt DEAL Consortium, founded MPDL Services
GmbH. “Following the request of the alliance of research organisations
in Germany, we have been happy to organise and implement this national
contract with Wiley. This is in full accordance with efforts such as
OA2020 that the Max Planck Society has undertaken over many years to
promote open access of scientific publications, to invest in modern
scientific publishing methods and to make sure that the copyrights of
scientific articles stay where these belong, namely with our
scientists“, said Max Planck President Martin Stratmann.
About Projekt DEAL
The Projekt DEAL project was set
up by the Alliance of Science Organisations in Germany representing the
vast majority of the most important science and research organisations
in Germany. The consortium includes nearly 700 mostly publicly funded
academic institutions in Germany such as universities, universities of
applied sciences, research institutions and state and regional
libraries. As part of the project, national licensing agreements are to
be implemented for the entire portfolio of electronic journals of large
academic publishers. Further information available at www.projekt-deal.de
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About Max Planck Society
The Max Planck Society conduct
basic research in the natural sciences, life sciences, and humanities.
Since its foundation in 1948, eighteen Nobel laureates have emerged from
its ranks. The Max Planck Society with its 84 Max Planck Institutes and
facilities is the international flagship for German science: in addition
to five foreign institutions, it operates another 17 Max Planck Centers
with research institutions such as the Princeton University in the USA,
the Paris University Science Po in France, the University College London
in UK, and the University of Tokyo in Japan. Equally funded by federal
and state governments, the Max Planck Society had an annual budget of
1.8 billion Euros in 2018. More information available at www.mpg.de
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