For 2025, JCU has 19 Read and Publish (R&P) Agreements in place. We have renewed all 18 Agreements available in 2024, and have added a new Agreement with Emerald this year. We have also upgraded the Cambridge University Press Agreement to include their full package of journals.
You can still view the JCU 2024 A-Z list of journals with added CiteScore metrics. We will add CiteScore data to the new 2025 list as soon as we can. For up-to-date citation information and journal performance metrics, please consult the Scopus database.
For more information about article limits and OA licences, see Author Information for the relevant publisher in the table below.
To be eligible for open access publishing, the author of the article must:
Please note that while the APC (Article Processing Charges) will be waived for some journals, there may be others that provide just a 15% discount. Other fees such as page charges or colour charges may also apply for some journals and which will not be covered by the agreement.
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Publisher |
No of article limits |
OA Licence |
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American Institute of Physics (AIP) Publishing
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Capped 385 articles |
CC-BY |
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American Psychological Association (APA)
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No limit | CC-BY |
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Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
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No limit |
CC-BY, CC-BY-SA, CC-BY-NC, CC-BY-NC-SA, CC-BY-ND, CC-BY-NC-ND |
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No limit | CC-BY |
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Cambridge University Press (upgraded to full package)
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No limit |
CC-BY, CC-BY-SA, CC-BY-NC, CC-BY-NC-SA, CC-BY-ND, CC-BY-NC-ND |
|
No limit | CC-BY |
|
No limit |
CC-BY |
|
No limit |
CC-BY, CC-BY-NC, CC-BY-NC-ND |
|
Capped 13,689 articles |
CC-BY, CC-BY-NC, CC-BY-NC-ND |
|
Emerald NEW
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No Limit | CC-BY |
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No limit |
CC-BY, CC-BY-NC |
|
No limit |
CC-BY |
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No limit |
CC-BY, CC-BY-NC, CC-BY-NC-ND |
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No limit |
CC-BY, CC-BY-NC |
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No limit |
CC-BY |
|
No limit |
CC-BY, CC-BY-NC
|
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Capped 3,513 articles |
CC-BY, CC-BY-NC, CC-BY-NC-ND |
|
Capped 3,877 articles |
CC-BY, CC-BY-NC, CC-BY-NC-ND
|
|
Capped 7,038 articles |
CC-BY, CC-BY-NC, CC-BY-ND, CC-BY-NC-ND |
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.
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.
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)
Chugh, R. ( 2021, July 7). Transformative journals: changing the scholarly publishing landscape – opinion. Campus Review.
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