Germany's Projekt DEAL and the publisher John Wiley & Sons have entered a ground-breaking transformative agreement, in line with the objectives of the Open Access 2020 initiative.

Under this new agreement, all authors affiliated with 700 academic institutions in Germany will retain copyright and their accepted articles will be published open access in Wiley journals. Almost 10,000 articles by German researchers are published a year in Wiley journals, constituting around 9% of the publisher's total output. The agreement also grants students and faculty read access to the full Wiley journal portfolio including backfiles starting with 1997. The national-level agreement is based on a "Publish&Read" model in which fees are paid by institutions-not for subscriptions but for open access publishing services.

The agreement has been open to the public since 18/02/2019.

The transformative agreements, besides Germany in Europe, are already a reality for the following States:

- Great Britain

- Sweden

- Norway

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