Open Access Publishing: Read and Publish Agreements 2023

WHAT

Read & Publish agreements are a form of transformative agreement with a publisher that takes the library’s existing expenditure on subscriptions and repurposes it to cover both reading and publishing in that publisher’s journals. If you publish in a journal that’s included in one of the Read & Publish agreements, you may be able to publish direct to open access with no transactional article processing charges.

WHY

Open access publishing makes your research outputs available globally via the publisher’s platform. This makes your findings accessible to a wider audience, including the public, industry, practitioners, government and researchers in developing countries. Open access publishing supports translation of research into practice and allows other researchers to build on your work. Your research is more visible, potentially leading to higher citation rates and more impact.

HOW

Author publishing workflow. You don’t need to change your publishing practices. Submit where you would normally submit your research and you’ll be notified on acceptance if you are eligible to publish your article open access with no transactional APCs (Article Processing Charges).

From CAUL guide (click here to read PDF version)

For 2023, JCU has signed 15 Read and Publish (R&P) Agreements including the 7 from 2022, all of which are effective from January 2023.

Follow the publisher link to view the full details of the agreement. For more information about the Number of article limits and OA licences, see Author Information for the relevant publisher. View complete list of journals.

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Further readings:

Hinchcliffe, L. (2019, April 23). Transformative agreements: a primer. The Scholarly Kitchen.

Chugh, R. ( 2021, July 7). Transformative journals: changing the scholarly publishing landscape – opinion. Campus Review.