Wiley expands Hong Kong partnership

Wiley has announced its continued partnership with the Joint University Librarians Advisory Committee (JULAC) in Hong Kong, and  has welcomed the consortium’s eighth and final member, the Education University of Hong Kong, into JULAC’s Wiley transformational agreement for 2025. Under this partnership, researchers at all eight participating institutions of the consortium gain access to Wiley’s journal portfolio and can publish their work open access in nearly 2,000 hybrid and gold open access journals.

The agreement, which began in 2023 with three founding members, has grown fast, leading to “significant increases” in open access publishing, says the publisher. The consortium’s open access output in Wiley journals grew from 30% in 2022 to over 70% in 2024.

“The remarkable growth of this partnership demonstrates the strong appetite for open access publishing among Hong Kong’s research community,” said Kathryn Sharples, Vice President, Publishing Strategy & Policy at Wiley. ”This collaboration has not only increased research visibility, but has also fostered greater collaboration and knowledge sharing across the region’s academic institutions.”