UNE has signed up to five Read and Publish agreements with Wiley, Springer Nature, CSIRO, Cambridge University Press and Oxford University Press. Each of the agreements are active from 1 January 2022.

Read and Publish agreements have emerged over the last few years as a new publishing business model in which institutions pay for the access rights (reading) to scholarly content, as well the main cost (Article Processing Charge (APC)) to publish articles Open Access.  This means as a UNE author, if your article is accepted in one of the journal titles included in the agreements, you can publish Open Access without having to pay for the APC yourself (subject to further eligibility criteria and any article allowance limit).

Eligibility criteria apply to the types of articles that can be made Open Access under the agreements, as well as the author’s affiliation. Further, not all journal titles covered by the five publishers are included in the agreements. For example, Wiley, Springer Nature and Oxford University Press do not include fully Open Access (Gold) journals in the agreements.

Agreements with CSIRO and Cambridge University Press offer an unlimited number of articles which can be made Open Access during the term of the agreements. Springer Nature, Wiley and Oxford University Press have caps on the total number of articles that can be published in a calendar year. The caps, or article allowance limits, apply to the consortia as a whole, i.e., participating institutions are not given individual allocations.

The Library would like to remind authors that they can make their research Open Access irrespective of these agreements. If the selected journal titles under the agreements are not relevant to your field of research, or in the event the article allowance limit is reached before the end of the calendar year, authors can still make their research Open Access via the ‘Green’ route. Green Open Access is a sustainable and supported path to Open Access and operates by authors depositing an accepted version of the article into an institutional or subject repository. In most cases, the accepted manuscript version (post-print) can be made available via the UNE institutional repository, RUNE. The accepted manuscript version is the version that includes revisions based on reviewer’s feedback and comments but has not yet been copy-edited or typeset by the publisher.

For more information on the agreements please see the Read and Publish Agreements Guide. For further information please contact: serials@une.edu.au.