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Publish: Read and Publish Agreements

Read and Publish Agreements

The ECU Library, as part of the Council of Australian University Librarians (CAUL) Consortium has re-signed existing Read & Publish Agreements and added new Agreements for 2024.  The Agreements provide opportunity for ECU authors to publish via Open Access on acceptance, and free of any transactional Article Processing Charges (APCs).

New Agreements for 2024:

  • American Psychological Association (APA)
  • American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
  • Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

Information will be updated on this page as it becomes available.

Access the PowerBi dashboard (to the right of screen) to match titles included in the Agreements with your research area.  If you require further information please contact the Library Scholarly Communication Team researchonline@ecu.edu.au

Selected titles only are included in Read & Publish Agreements.  Please consult publisher websites for alternative titles if those on these lists do not meet your publishing strategy.

The 2024 Read and Publish Agreement with The American Psychological Association (APA)  will allow ECU authors to publish an unlimited number of articles in all hybrid journals published by The Association with no article processing charge (APC).

Information for Authors

List of APA Journal Titles

To be eligible, the corresponding author must have affiliation with a participating institution and the article must be accepted after 1 January 2024.  Authors please use your ECU email address on submission of manuscript to determine eligibility of waived article processing charges.  Articles will be published using CC-BY copyright license.

The ECU Library has introduced a new 2024 Read and Publish Agreement with The Association for Computing Machinery. The Agreement will allow ECU authors to publish an uncapped number of articles in their titles plus receive full-text access to the ACM Digital Library for the length of the agreement.

Information for Authors
Corresponding authors of ECU may publish open access once the article has been accepted, with no transactional article processing charge (APC).

The Creative Commons licenses allow reuse (some with conditions) while protecting the authors' rights of acknowledgment as authors. Authors retain copyright. Further information about the licences is available on the publisher's website.

Authors are required to provide

  • Institutional postal address
  • Institutional email address
  • ORCID

Publications covered under this Read & Publish agreement

  • Research articles
  • Review articles
  • Conference or proceedings papers

List of journal titles included and further information regarding this agreement is available on the publisher website

 
In 2024 ECU Authors will be able to publish an uncapped number of articles in any of ASME's 33 hybrid journals and the ASME Open Journal of Engineering.
 
Information for Authors

To be eligible, authors must be listed as the corresponding author and submit the paper using their ECU email address.

All peer-reviewed research articles submitted on or after 1 January 2024 are eligible.

Articles will be published under the Creative Commons Licensing CC BY.

To view list of journal titles included and further information about this agreement visit the publishers website

 

The 2024 Read and Publish Agreement with Cambridge University Press will allow ECU authors to publish an uncapped number of articles in the majority of their 400 peer-reviewed academic journals.

Information for Authors
Corresponding authors of ECU may publish open access once the article has been accepted, with no transactional article processing charge (APC).

Follow the normal submission process with Cambridge and on acceptance the APC will be automatically waived (page submission charges and colour charges may still apply).

The Creative Commons licenses allow reuse (some with conditions) while protecting the authors' rights of acknowledgment as authors. Authors retain copyright. Further information about the licences is available on the publisher's website.

Authors are required to provide

  • Institutional postal address
  • Institutional email address
  • ORCID

Publications covered under this Read & Publish agreement

  • Research articles
  • Review articles
  • Rapid communications
  • Brief reports
  • Case reports

List of journal titles included and further information regarding this agreement is available on the publisher website

Authors Step by Step guide to publishing Open Access in Cambridge journals

 
 
In 2024 ECU Authors will be able to publish an uncapped number of articles in any CSIRO title Open Access with no transactional Article Publish Charge (APC).
 
 
Information for Authors

To be eligible, authors must be listed as the corresponding author and submit the paper using their ECU email address and provide the institution's Ringgold ID.

Articles should be submitted via the publisher's submission system, ScholarOne

Articles may be published under the authors' choice of either  CC-BY, CC-BY-NC-ND  or  CC-BY-NC license.

Additional costs may be incurred to cover colour pages or reprints.

To view list of journal titles included and further information about this agreement visit the publishers website

 

 

The 2024 Read and Publish Agreement with The Company of Biologists will allow ECU authors to publish an unlimited number of articles in all five journals published by The Company  with no transactional processing charge. 

Development
Journal of Cell Science
Journal of Experimental Biology
Disease Models and Mechanisms
Biology Open

Information for Authors

To be eligible, the corresponding author must have affiliation with a participating institution.  Authors please use your ECU email address on submission of manuscript to determine eligibility of waived article processing charges.  See publishers website for more information.

 

In 2024 ECU Authors will be able to publish a capped number of articles in selected Elsevier journal titles Open Access with no transactional Article Publish Charge (APC).

Information for Authors

To be eligible, authors must be listed as the corresponding author and submit the paper using their ECU email address.

Eligible articles

  • Full Length Articles

  • Review Articles

  • Case Reports

  • Practice Guidelines

  • Replication Study

A small number of included journals have mandatory page charges that are not covered by the agreement.

List of journal titles included  and further information about the article submission process

Information about the agreement will be available via the publisher website

The 2024 Read and Publish Agreement with Oxford University Press will allow ECU authors to publish a limited number of articles in the 366 of Oxford's academic journals with no transactional processing charge.  Once the allowance is used, authors may choose to publish "closed access" or to pay the article processing charge (APC).
 

Information for Authors
Corresponding authors of ECU may publish open access once the article has been accepted, with no transactional article processing charge.

Follow the normal submission process with the journal title, selecting a participating institution as affiliated and using an email address from that institution.

The Creative Commons licenses allow reuse (some with conditions) while protecting the authors' rights of acknowledgment as authors.

List of journal titles included and further information regarding this agreement is available on the publisher website

A new Read and Publish Agreement has been signed with Sage Publishing commencing January 2024. The agreement allows for publishing in Sage titles.

Information for Authors
Authors from participating institutions may publish immediately to open access on the publisher's platform once the article has been accepted, with no transactional APCs.

Authors do not need to take any actions to benefit from this offer, SAGE will contact all eligible authors to inform them of the agreement and invite them to the SAGE Open Access Portal to take up the offer as soon as their articles has been received into SAGE's Production Department.

View the full title list  More information will be come available from the publishers website

ECU has re-signed to participate in the 2024 Council of Australian University Librarians (CAUL) Read and Publish Agreement with Springer.  The Agreement allows authors from participating Australian institutions to publish a limited number of articles open access, in most hybrid titles, without paying any transactional publishing charge (APC). 

Information for Authors

Corresponding authors of ECU may publish open access once the article has been accepted, with no transactional article processing charge.

The capped allowance of papers published under this Agreement is a collective pool for all participating Australian institutions.

Articles must be primary research or a review article and fees may be charged for colour or additional page charges.

Authors are required to provide confirmation of affiliation with an institution at time of submission.

The copyright remains with you: Most Open Choice articles are published under the liberal Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY) license.

List of journal titles included and further information regarding this agreement is available on the publisher website

A video presentation created by Springer covering the Read and Publish workflow.

Please note the Agreement does not include Nature Research Journals.

 

The 2024 Read and Publish Agreement with Taylor & Francis will allow ECU authors to publish a limited number of articles in their list of Hybrid titles with no transactional processing charge.  Once the allowance is used, authors may choose to publish "closed access" or to pay the article processing charge (APC).
 

Information for Authors
Corresponding authors of ECU may publish open access once the article has been accepted, with no transactional article processing charge.

Follow the normal submission process with the journal title, selecting a participating institution as affiliated and using an email address from that institution.  On acceptance of the article, you will be informed if CAUL has approved your article for open access funding. If approved, the publisher will ask the corresponding author to complete a form (publishing agreement).

The Creative Commons licenses allow reuse (some with conditions) while protecting the authors' rights of acknowledgment as authors.

List of journal titles included and further information regarding this agreement will be available on the publisher website

Other charges, such as colour and page charges, are not included within the agreement and are charged separately by the individual title. Details of such charges are on the journal’s Instructions for Authors page.

ECU has re-signed to participate in the 2024 Council of Australian University Librarians (CAUL) Read and Publish Agreement with Wiley and Hindawi Publishing.  The Agreement allows authors from participating Australian institutions to publish a limited number of articles open access, in most hybrid titles, without paying any transactional publishing charge (APC).  See list list below.
 

Information for Authors

Corresponding authors of ECU may publish open access once the article has been accepted, with no transactional article processing charge.

A capped number of articles may be published under this agreement.

Articles must be primary research or a review article and fees may be charged for colour or additional page charges.

Authors are required to provide confirmation of affiliation with an institution at time of submission.

List of journal titles included and further information regarding this agreement is available on the publisher website

Authors Step by Step instruction to make your article open access within a Wiley hybrid journal