About the agreement To achieve the large-scale transformation towards open access, the project partners devised a “Publish and Read” (PAR) model with two components: The Projekt DEAL-Wiley agreement Significantly increased open access output from German research institutions. Enabled researchers from German institutions to easily publish their work open access, independently from available funding in their research areas, and retain copyright for their work. Expanded access to research findings for German institutions. Expand equal access to high-quality scholarly journals to all researchers in Germany. Analysis Wiley and the project partners are constantly monitoring the publishing output. Now that the agreement has been in effect for over two years,what are the actual changes in publishing and reading behaviour Wiley was able to observe? After the second year of this agreement, it is possible to draw the reasonable conclusions about impact and achievements: The two Key goals of the Projekt DEAL-Wiley agreement: Transitioning to an open future Wiley’s commitment to open access Empower all (corresponding) authors with the means to publish their articles openly. Gold Open Access increase in the number of Gold journal published articles from 2018 to 2020. increase the number of accepted and approved articles in 2020, compared to 2019. Hybrid Open Access increase in the number of articles published open access. of authors choose to publish OA in our journals of authors choose a CCBY license Open Access Publishing The Projekt DEAL-Wiley agreement has already made notable advancement towards a higher ratio of open access publications. articles published in Wiley’s hybrid portfolio between July 2019 and December 2020. articles published in Wiley’s Gold Open Access journals in 2019 and 2020. Outcomes: Reading accesses to full text HTML and PDF (2020). increase in usage since before the agreement. Participation and reach institutions where Readers have reading rights (2020). Publish component: • Authors publishing in Wiley’s 1,400+ hybrid journals may publish OA at no direct cost to them; Projekt DEAL pays a PAR fee of 2.750€ to Wiley per such article • Authors can publish in 230+ fully gold open access journals at no direct cost*, and institutions get a 20% discount on the Article Publication Charge (APC). Read component: • Participating institutions gain free read access to more than 1,600 Wiley journals (dating back to 1997) Outcomes: Introduction In January 2019, Projekt DEAL, a consortium representing German research institutes and academic libraries, signed a large-scale open access agreement with Wiley, publisher of over 1,600 peer-reviewed journals from all areas of research. Its goal was to accelerate the nation-wide transition from a predominantly subscription- based publishing model to one based on open access. It is intended to significantly raise the number of open access articles being published out of German research institutions while securing, and even expanding institutions’ read access to Wiley’s journal output at the same time. >1000% 92% 15,716,977 49% 495 58% 92% + 14,500 + 1,500 Participation and reach institutions where eligible authors have open access publishing rights. (2020) 943 Conclusions + 50% *Some institutional funding policies may differ for gold OA APCs. Authors should check with their library for any exceptions. Authors: Melanie Lehnert-Bechle (Wiley-VCH), Torben Quasdorf (Wiley-VCH), Eva-Maria Scheer (Wiley-VCH) This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.