A Read and Publish Agreement is an alternative to the traditional subscription model. It helps both authors and libraries to increase the number of publications that area available as open access, as well as streamlining publishing processes for authors.

For publishers offering Read and Publish Agreements article processing charges (APCs) are covered by the subscription that the Library organises, so that reading and publishing are covered by a single agreement.

Not all publishers offer Read and Publish Agreements and some that do, for example Sage, have not released this model in the Australian market.

Every agreement is different. Some have caps on the number of articles that can be made openly accessible, some apply only to a selection of titles published by the publisher and some require particular processes when authors are submitting articles.