Discussions around open research (or open science) are becoming increasingly common. As the landscape adapts to more open research practices, you may be wondering what you can do to increase accessibility, integrity, and reproducibility within your journal. Whilst open access (OA) is synonymous with open research, your journal does not have to be fully OA in order to adopt open practices. As an editor, there are many initiatives that you can introduce to your journal in order to increase openness within your subject community.

Below is a checklist showing many of the open initiatives that Wiley has available, which you can go through to answer the question “How open is your journal?” For instance, does your journal consider Registered Reports? What is your current Data Sharing Policy, and could it be updated? Does your journal accept articles that have been made available as preprints?

Across the Editor Hub on the Wiley Network, you will find a range of further information on these initiatives. You can read first hand from some of our editors’ about their experiences with Registered Reports; find out more about Transparent Peer Review; hear from editors who have altered their data policy to share FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) data; as well as the results from our recent open research survey at Wiley. If you are interested in how and why journals might transition from hybrid to gold open access, here are some considerations that we at Wiley will take into account ahead of “flipping” a journal.

If you would like to find out more information about any of these initiatives or to implement them on your journal, please speak with your Wiley Journal Publishing Manager.