In 2025, the ANU Library is participating in 21 RAP agreements, which will enable Australian National University (ANU) authors to publish accepted articles into eligible journals without any APCs. Details for each of these agreements, including information for authors, can be accessed below.
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) RAP agreement allows ANU authors to publish accepted research articles open access without having to pay an APC. There is no limit to the number of articles that can be published.
Current agreement term: 2024-2026
Eligible Articles
Article Types
The following article types are eligible for open access under this agreement:
Article types excluded from this agreement include, but are not limited to:
View the list of eligible titles here.
ANU corresponding authors may publish immediately to open access on the publisher's platform once the article has been accepted, with no transactional APCs.
To be eligible under this agreement, authors must use their institutional email address (@anu.edu.au) when submitting their articles for publishing.
Author rights
The default choice when publishing within the ACM Open Agreement is for the corresponding author to use a non-exclusive CC-BY licence, unless they choose a different type of Creative Commons licence.
The author may also choose to transfer copyright or give ACM exclusive access to publish their articles.
The American Psychological Association (APA) RAP agreement allows ANU authors to publish open access with no APCs in all 87 APA-published hybrid journals indexed in APA PsycArticles.There is no cap on the number of articles published across all participating institutions
Current agreement term: 2025
Included titles
View the list of eligible titles here.
NOTE: Hogrefe published journals and APA's fully open access journal, Technology, Mind, and Behavior, are excluded from this agreement.
Eligible Articles
Article Types
These article types qualify for the Read and Publish agreement:
Acceptance Date
Articles must be accepted on or after 1 Jan 2024
ANU corresponding authors may publish immediately to open access on the publisher's platform once the article has been accepted, with no transactional APCs.
To be eligible under this agreement, authors must use their institutional email address (@anu.edu.au) when submitting their articles for publishing.
Author rights
The default choice when publishing within the ACM Open Agreement is for the corresponding author to use a non-exclusive CC-BY licence, unless they choose a different type of Creative Commons licence.
The author may also choose to transfer copyright or give ACM exclusive access to publish their articles.
Please see the APA Author Guide for further information on this agreement.
The American Institute of Physics Press (AIPP) RAP agreement enables ANU authors to publish accepted articles into selected hybrid e-journals without any APCs.
Current agreement term: 2023-2025
Included titles
This agreement allows ANU authors to publish open access in 23 titles with no transactional APCs. View the list of eligible titles here.
Eligible articles
Article types
Open access publishing covered under this RAP agreement includes the following article types:
Authors may publish excluded article types as “closed access” or pay an APC (if applicable) to make the article open access.
Acceptance Date
Articles must have an acceptance date from 1 January 2025 to be eligible to be published open access with no transactional APCs.
Number of included articles
*the number of included articles for 2023 is calculated at 194% (322 articles) of the 2020 hybrid output OA articles from authors at participating institutions. In 2024 the number will be 199% (332 articles and in 2025 206% (342 articles). This cap is not expected to be exceeded.
Other charges
There are no other transactional charges for authors.
Responsible corresponding authors above may publish immediately to open access on the publisher's platform once the article has been accepted with no transactional APCs.
Author rights
Articles from authors at participating institutions will be published under a CC-BY or CC BY-NC licence.
Further information about the licences is available on the publisher’s website.
The Creative Commons licenses allow reuse (some with conditions) while protecting the authors' rights of acknowledgment as authors. Authors retain copyright.
How to submit your article for open access publishing
For more information on the author workflow refer to this guide for authors on the AIPP website.
Author identification
Authors will be identified as eligible for open access publishing with no transactional APCs by their ANU institutional affiliation.
The Brill RAP agreement enables ANU authors to publish accepted articles into any ejournals from the Brill Online Journal Collection without any APCs.
Current agreement term: 2025
Included titles
This agreement allows ANU authors to publish open access in 366 titles with no transactional APCs.View the list of eligible titles here.
Eligible articles
Article types
Open access publishing covered under this RAP agreement includes the following article types:
Article types excluded from this agreement include, but are not limited to:
Authors may publish excluded article types as “closed access” or pay an APC (if applicable) to make the article open access.
Acceptance date
Articles must have an acceptance date from 1 January 2025 to be eligible to be published open access with no transactional APCs.
Number of included articles
There is no limit to the number of articles by participating institutions allowed to be published as part of this agreement.
Other charges
There are no other transactional charges for authors.
ANU corresponding authors may publish immediately to open access on the publisher's platform once the article has been accepted, with no transactional APCs.
Author rights
Articles from authors at participating institutions may be published under the authors' choice of either
The Creative Commons licenses allow reuse (some with conditions) while protecting the authors' rights of acknowledgment as authors. Authors retain copyright.
How to submit your article for open access publishing
View Brill's step-by-step guide for authors.
Author identification
Authors will be identified as eligible for open access publishing by their institutional affiliation.
Authors must use their institutional email address when submitting an article for publication in order for the publication to be eligible for open access publishing with no transactional APCs.
The Cambridge University Press agreement allows authors from participating institutions to publish into the majority Cambridge University Press journals without the need of any transactional article processing charge or payment (APC). Further information on this agreement is available from Cambridge University Press.
Current agreement term: 2025
View the list of eligible titles here.
Eligible Articles
Article Types
Open access publishing covered under this Read & Publish agreement includes the following article types:
Article types excluded from this agreement include:
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Authors who wish to make excluded article types openly available may choose to:
Acceptance Date
Articles must be accepted on or after 1 Jan 2025
Eligible articles that have an acceptance date during the term of this agreement are eligible to be published open access under the terms of the R&P agreement. In the case of journals departing the Cambridge Collection, the accepted article must be published by CUP (i.e. before the journal moves to another publisher) in order to be eligible under this agreement.
Number of included articles
There is no limit on the number of articles by participating institutions allowed to be published as part of this agreement.
Other charges
Page and colour charges are not included in the RAP agreement, and only apply to print journals.
Journals that have page charges (for print) are:
Corresponding 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.
Author rights
Articles from authors at participating institutions may be published under the author's choice of the following licences:
Further information about the licences is available on the publisher's website.
The Creative Commons licenses allow reuse (some with conditions) while protecting the authors' rights of acknowledgment as authors. Authors retain copyright.
How to submit your article for open access publishing
Refer to this step-by-step guide for more information on the author workflow.
Author identification
In all correspondence with the publisher and Rightslink, authors must use their institutional postal address and institutional email address.
View the Cambridge University Press introduction to open access and further information on this agreement.
The Canadian Science Publishing agreement allows authors from participating institutions to publish into the majority Canadian Science Publishing journals without the need of any transactional article processing charge or payment (APC). Further information on this agreement is available from Canadian Science Publishers.
Current agreement term 2025-2027
Included Titles
The agreement allows for publishing in 22 titles: View the list of eligible titles here.
Eligible Articles
Article Types
Open access publishing covered under this Read & Publish agreement includes the following article types:
Article types excluded from this agreement include:
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Authors who wish to make excluded article types openly available may choose to:
Acceptance Date
Articles must be accepted on or after 1 Jan 2025
Eligible articles that have an acceptance date during the term of this agreement are eligible to be published open access under the terms of the R&P agreement.
Number of included articles
There is no limit on the number of articles by participating institutions allowed to be published as part of this agreement.
Other charges
Page and colour charges are not included in the RAP agreement, and only apply to print journals.
Corresponding 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.
Author rights
Articles from authors at participating institutions may be published under the author's choice of Creative Commons Licences.
The Creative Commons licenses allow reuse (some with conditions) while protecting the authors' rights of acknowledgment as authors. Authors retain copyright.
The agreement allows authors from participating institutions to publish into Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) journals without the need of any transactional article processing charge or payment (APC).
Included Titles
The agreement allows for publishing in:
Eligible Articles
Article Types
Open access publishing covered under this Read & Publish agreement includes the following article types:
Acceptance date
Eligible articles that have an acceptance date during the term of this agreement are eligible to be published open access under the terms of the RAP agreement.
Number of included articles
There is no annual limit on number of articles that can be published per year under this agreement.
Corresponding 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.
Author rights
Articles from authors at participating institutions may be published under the author's choice of the following licences:
The Creative Commons licenses allow reuse (some with conditions) while protecting the authors' rights of acknowledgment as authors. Authors retain copyright.
How to submit your article for open access publishing
Author identification
In all correspondence with the publisher and Rightslink, authors must use their institutional postal address and institutional email address.
View the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press FAQ page for more information on this agreement.
The Company of Biologists is a not-for-profit publishing organisation with a mission to support biologists and inspire biology worldwide.
They have a long-standing commitment to Open Access as they believe it benefits science.
Their hybrid journals – Development, Journal of Cell Science and Journal of Experimental Biology – were the first journals in the world from any publisher to be afforded Transformative Journal status by Plan S. They were also one of the first not-for-profit publishers to launch a Read & Publish initiative.
Further information is available on the Company of Biologists' CAUL agreement site.
Included titles
This agreement allows authors from participating institutions to publish open access in all five titles with no transactional APCs.
Eligible Journals
Eligible articles
Article types
Open access publishing covered under this Read & Publish agreement includes the following article types:
Authors may publish excluded article types as “closed access” or pay an article processing charge (if applicable) to make the article open access.
Acceptance date
Eligible articles that have an acceptance date during the term of this agreement are eligible to be published open access under the terms of the agreement.
Number of included articles
There is no limit on the number of articles by eligible authors from participating institutions that can be published under the terms of this agreement.
Other charges
There are no other transactional charges for authors.
Responsible corresponding authors from institutions listed under 'Participating institutions' above may publish immediately to open access on the publisher's platform once the article has been accepted with no transactional APCs. (Page and colour charges may apply.)
Author rights
Articles from authors at participating institutions may be published under the authors' choice of either
The Creative Commons licenses allow reuse (some with conditions) while protecting the authors' rights of acknowledgment as authors. Authors retain copyright.
How to submit your article for open access publishing
View the publisher’s step-by-step guide for authors.
Author identification
Authors will be identified as eligible for open access publishing by their
Authors must use their institutional email address when submitting an article for publication in order for the publication to be approved to be published open access with no transactional APCs .
Responsible corresponding authors should not use personal email addresses (e.g. Hotmail, Gmail). Doing so may result in delayed approval of the article or the article may not be approved to be published open access under the terms of the agreement.
View the Company of Biologists Frequently Asked Questions.
Refer to this guide for authors on publishing within this Read and Publish Agreement.
CSIRO Publishing is Australia's leading science publisher of books, journals, and magazines. CSIRO publications demonstrate the value of science and capture and share knowledge for future generations.
Current agreement term: 2024-2025
Included titles
The agreement with CSIRO provides unlimited publishing in 25 journals.
View the list of eligible titles here.
Further information is available from CSIRO Publishing.
Corresponding authors from institutions listed under 'Participating institutions' may publish immediately to open access on the publisher's platform once the article has been accepted, with no transactional APCs. This includes all page charges except colour pages or reprints.
Author rights
Articles from authors at member institutions may be published under the authors' choice of either licence:
These licenses allow reuse (some with conditions) while protecting the authors' rights of acknowledgment as authors. Authors retain copyright.
How to submit your article for open access publishing
View the publisher’s step-by-step guide for authors.
Author identification
You will be recognised as being eligible for open access publishing with no transactional APCs via your institutional email address and your institution's Ringgold ID.
Responsible corresponding authors should not use personal email addresses (e.g. Hotmail, Gmail). Doing so may result in delayed approval of the article or the article may not be approved to be published open access under the terms of the agreement.
View the CSIRO's Open Access Workflow
Refer to this guide for authors on publishing within this Read and Publish Agreement.
Elsevier is a leader in information and analytics for researchers and healthcare professionals. Elsevier enables open access in nearly all of its 2,700+ journals, with 600+ dedicated open access journals.
The Elsevier RAP agreement enables ANU authors to publish accepted articles into selected hybrid e-journals from Elsevier without any APCs.
Current agreement term: 2023-2025
ANU authors are also eligible for a 15% discount on core Hybrid or Gold APCs for articles outside of the RAP agreement.
Included titles
This agreement allows ANU authors to publish open access in 1649 core hybrid titles with no transactional APCs.The title list is dynamic and will change throughout the year. Use the Elsevier Journal Finder. to check by title or subject area.
This includes high impact titles such as:
And titles with high Australian and New Zealand authorship, such as:
View the list of eligible titles here.
Find a participating journal in this agreement by title or subject area on Elsevier's website.
Excluded titles
Titles not include in the agreement for open access publishing may still benefit from a 15% discount on open access article processing charges (APCs). Please check the full title list to see which journals offer a discount.
Eligible articles
Article types
Open access publishing covered under this RAP agreement includes the following article types:
Acceptance date
Articles must be accepted on or after 1 Jan 2025 to be eligible to be published open access with no transactional APCs.
During the first half of 2023 CAUL and Elsevier operated a restricted title list of 235 journals. For articles accepted from 15 June 2023 onwards, this restriction was lifted and all 1649 eligible hybrid journals are now able to participate in this open access agreement.
Number of included articles
*the number of included articles for 2023 is calculated at 60% (7,138 articles) of the 2021 hybrid output OA articles from authors at participating institutions. In 2024 the number will be 80% and in 2025 100% (13,689 articles).
Responsible corresponding authors above may publish immediately to open access on the publisher's platform once the article has been accepted with no transactional APCs. For further guidance for researchers or to access a step-by- step publication guide, please refer to the UPublish guide.
Author rights
Articles from authors at participating institutions will be published under a CC-BY or CC BY-NC-ND licence.
Further information about the licences is available on the publisher’s website.
The Creative Commons licenses allow reuse (some with conditions) while protecting the authors' rights of acknowledgment as authors. Authors retain copyright.
How to submit your article for open access publishing
For more information on the author workflow refer to this guide for authors on the Elsevier website.
Author identification
Authors will be identified as eligible for open access publishing with no transactional APCs by:
The Expert Medicine Collection allows authors from participating institutions to publish in some of Taylor & Francis Expert Medicine's hybrid journals without the need for any transactional open access article processing charge (APC). This is an uncapped agreement. There is no limit on the number of articles that can be published OA under this agreement.
Current agreement term: 2024-2025
Included titles
The agreement allows for publishing in some journals. If you wish to publish open access, please check to ensure that your desired journal is included. Hybrid journals that 'flip' to OA during the course of this agreement will remain available for OA publishing for the duration of the agreement.View the list of eligible titles here.
Eligible Articles
Article Types
These article types qualify for the Read and Publish agreement:
Article types excluded from this agreement include, but are not limited to:
Acceptance Date
Articles must be accepted on or after 1 Jan 2024
ANU corresponding authors may publish immediately to open access on the publisher's platform once the article has been accepted, with no transactional APCs.
To be eligible under this agreement, authors must use their institutional email address (@anu.edu.au) when submitting their articles for publishing.
Author rights
Articles from authors at participating institutions may be published under the following Creative Commons licenses;CC-BY license, which allows maximum reuse while protecting the authors' rights of acknowledgment as authors.
Further information about licenses is available on the Publishers Website
Publishing
Other Charges
Taylor & Francis Expert Medicine does charge additional fees for page and/or colour fees. Authors should always check each journal’s submission guidelines to ensure that they will not be subject to any other fees or charges.
From January 1, 2025 the Geological Society Lyell Collection RAP agreement enables ANU authors to publish accepted articles of all types in 7 hybrid journals and 4 hybrid book series.
Included titles
Journals
Book series
Eligible Articles
Article Types
Open access publishing under this RAP includes all article types.
Number of Articles
There is no limit to the number of articles that can be published OA under this agreement.
Acceptance Date
Articles must have an acceptance date within the duration of this agreement (Jan- Dec 2025) to be eligible to be published open access with no transactional APCs.
Author Rights
Articles from authors at participating institutions may be published under CC BY Creative Commons licences.
Authors retain all rights as per the CC licence.
Author Identification
Authors will be identified as eligible for open access publishing by their:
Other charges
The Geological Society does not charge additional fees for page and/or colour fees. Authors should always check each journal’s submission guidelines to ensure they will not be subject to any other fees or charges.
How to submit your article for Open Access Publishing
The following instructions for authors have been provided by the publisher. Further details are available on the publisher’s website.
The Institute of Physics Publishing (IOPP) RAP agreement enables ANU authors to publish accepted articles into selected Gold and Hybrid e-journals without any APCs.
Current agreement term: 2023 - 2025
Included titles
This agreement allows ANU authors to publish open access in 77 titles (21 of which are gold) with no transactional APCs.
View the list of eligible titles here.
Eligible articles
Article types
Open access publishing covered under this RAP agreement includes the following article types:
Authors may publish excluded article types as “closed access” or pay an APC (if applicable) to make the article open access.
Acceptance date
Articles must have an acceptance date within the duration of this agreement (2023-2025) to be eligible to be published open access with no transactional APCs.
Number of included articles
There is no limit to the number of articles by participating institutions allowed to be published as part of this agreement.
Other charges
There may be other transactional charges for authors, e.g. page charges.
Responsible corresponding authors above may publish immediately to open access on the publisher's platform once the article has been accepted with no transactional APCs.
Author rights
Articles from authors at participating institutions will be published under a CC-BY licence.
Further information about the licences is available on the publisher’s website.
The Creative Commons licenses allow reuse (some with conditions) while protecting the authors' rights of acknowledgment as authors. Authors retain copyright.
How to submit your article for open access publishing
For more information on the author workflow refer to this guide for authors on the IOPP website.
Author identification
Authors will be identified as eligible for open access publishing with no transactional APCs by their ANU institutional affiliation and email address.
John Benjamins Publishing Company is an independent academic publisher in linguistics and the language sciences, based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
The John Benjamins Read and Publish Open Access Agreement allows corresponding authors from ANU to publish open access in any JB journal without paying an Article Processing Charge (APC).
Current agreement term: 2025
Eligible Articles
Article Types
Acceptance Date
To be eligible for publication under this agreement the article must be submitted and approved during the year covered by the agreement (2023).
Number of Included Articles
There is no limit to the number of articles by participating institutions allowed to be published as a part of this agreement.
Author Identification
Eligibility for Open Access publication will be checked against the following criteria:
All submitted and accepted articles of corresponding authors will be checked for eligibility prior to the article publication.
Eligibility for Open Access before these articles are published. The Publisher takes two following actions:
1. To publish these articles eligible for Open Access as Open Access.
2. To send a notification to the Institution to inform them of the eligibility of the article for Open Access.
JB will publish any article eligible for Open Access as Open Access. If authors find that their article was not published Open Access but they feel it should have been eligible, they can contact their editor in the first instance.
Author Rights
Authors of Australian National University publishing Open Access in journals of JB retain their copyright. JB licenses these articles by default under the Creative Commons Attribution license CC BY.
If authors prefer they can inform the publisher that their article is to be published under another license such as
Further information
Information on the publishers Open Access Policy and guidelines on journal submissions, are available on the JB website.
The Microbiology Society RAP agreement allows ANU authors to publish immediately to open access on the publisher's platform once the article has been accepted, with no transactional APCs.
Current Agreement term: 2025
Included titles
ANU corresponding authors may publish immediately to open access on the publisher's platform once the article has been accepted, with no transactional APCs.
Author rights
How to submit your article for open access publishing
Submit your article via the publisher's submission platform, Editorial Manager.
You will be recognised as being eligible for open access publishing with no transactional APCs via your ANU email address.
A publishing workflow is available on the Microbiology Society website.
Publishing
View the Microbiology Society's guide to publishing Open Access.
This agreement allows for read access to 376 Oxford University Press (OUP) titles and allows authors from participating institutions to publish open access in all of OUP's hybrid journals with no transactional article processing charges (APCs).
Current agreement term: 2025-2027
Read more about this agreement from OUP.
Included titles
This agreement allows authors from participating institutions to publish open access no transactional APCs.
Important information regarding this agreement for 2025
This is an uncapped agreement. There is no limit to the number of articles that can be published OA.
Royal Astronomical Society (RAS)fully open access titles for are now part of this agreement.
Included titles:
This agreement only covers hybrid open access journals. Journals that 'flipped' to be fully open access between 2022-2024 are no longer included in this agreement. The affected journals are:
Excluded titles
Authors with articles currently under review in these journals may be required to pay APCs if their articles are accepted. Please email openaccess@oup.com if you have questions.
View the list of eligible titles here.
Eligible articles
Article types
Open access publishing covered under this Read & Publish agreement includes the following article types:
Authors may publish other types of articles as “closed access” or pay an article processing charge (if applicable) to make the article open access.
Acceptance date
Eligible articles that have an acceptance date during the term of this agreement (2025-2027) are eligible to be published open access under the terms of the R&P agreement.
Other charges
Journals which have mandatory page charges
Please note for articles to be published open access under the terms of this agreement, corresponding authors must:
For more details visit OUP Read and Publish agreements – participating journals and institutions
Author rights
Articles from authors at participating institutions may be published under the authors' choice of either:
The Creative Commons licenses allow reuse (some with conditions) while protecting the authors' rights of acknowledgment as authors. Authors retain copyright.
How to submit your article for open access publishing
Further assistance
For more information on the referral process, read the step-by-step guide. Please direct any queries regarding use of the funds in the Open Access Account to prepayments@oup.com or consult your librarian.
Author identification
Corresponding authors must indicate a participating institution as their primary affiliation in order to be eligible.
Corresponding authors must use their institutional email address when submitting an article for publication in order for the publication to be approved to be published open access with no transactional APCs.
Corresponding authors should not use personal email addresses (e.g. Hotmail, Gmail). Doing so may result in delayed approval of the article or the article may not be approved to be published open access under the terms of the agreement.
Read more about this agreement from OUP.
Refer to this step-by-step guide for more information on the author workflow.
The Portland Press Biochemical Society RAP agreement enables ANU authors to publish immediately to open access on the publisher's platform once the article has been accepted, with no transactional APCs.
Current agreement term: 2025
Included titles
Biochemical Society journals included in the Portland Read and Publish Agreement include:
ANU corresponding authors may publish immediately to open access on the publisher's platform once the article has been accepted, with no transactional APCs.
Author rights
How to submit your article for open access publishing
Submit your article via the publisher's platform.
You will be recognised as being eligible for open access publishing with no transactional APCs when you select ANU as your institution in the submission system.
Publishing
Further information
Further information on the agreement and the RAP process, including FAQs for authors, is available on the publisher's website.
The SAGE RAP agreement enables ANU authors to publish accepted articles into selected hybrid e-journals from SAGE without any APCs.
Current agreement term: 2023-2025
Included titles
This agreement allows ANU authors to publish open access in 866 "SAGE choice" hybrid titles with no transactional APCs. View the list of eligible titles here..
Eligible articles
Article types
Open access publishing covered under this RAP agreement covers submissions classified as "article", which includes but is not limited to the following article types:
Acceptance date
Articles must have an acceptance date within the duration of this agreement (2023-2025) to be eligible to be published open access with no transactional APCs.
Number of included articles
There is no limit to the number of articles by participating institutions allowed to be published as part of this agreement.
Responsible corresponding authors above may publish immediately to open access on the publisher's platform once the article has been accepted with no transactional APCs.
Author rights
Articles from authors at participating institutions will be published under a CC-BY or CC BY-NC licence.
Further information about the licences is available on the publisher’s website.
The Creative Commons licenses allow reuse (some with conditions) while protecting the authors' rights of acknowledgment as authors. Authors retain copyright.
How to submit your article for open access publishing
For more information about publishing open access under this agreement, refer to this guide for authors on the SAGE website.
Author identification
Authors will be identified as eligible for open access publishing with no transactional APCs by:
The Springer Nature RAP agreement enables ANU authors to publish immediately to open access on the publisher's platform once the article has been accepted, with no transactional APCs.
Current agreement term: 2025
The 2025 article cap on this agreement is 3513 articles.
Included titles
This agreement allows authors from participating institutions to publish in most of Springer Nature's hybrid journals without the need for any transactional open access article processing charge (APC).
Please note: Nature titles are not included.
View the full list of Springer Nature titles. This list includes annotations for excluded titles.
Eligible articles
Article types
Open access publishing covered under this RAP agreement includes the following article types:
Authors may publish excluded article types as “closed access” or pay an article processing charge (if applicable) to make the article open access.
Acceptance date
Articles must have an acceptance date from 1 January 2025 to be eligible to be published open access with no transactional APCs.
Number of included articles
Other charges
Other charges (including page and colour charges) will vary by imprint and may depend on whether Springer Nature owns the journal or if it is a society owned journal. These charges may not be covered under the agreement. Authors will be notified about options regarding colour and page charges through their communications with journal editors.
Page charges for Springer Nature owned journals will be waived.
ANU corresponding authors may publish immediately to open access on the publisher's platform once the article has been accepted, with no transactional APCs. Page and colour charges may apply.
Author rights
Articles from authors at participating institutions may be published under the author's choice of the following licences:
The Creative Commons licenses allow reuse (some with conditions) while protecting the authors' rights of acknowledgment as authors. Authors retain copyright.
Researchers who require a CC-BY-NC-ND licence should contact the editors for the relevant journal.
How to submit your article for open access publishing
Author identification
Authors will be identified as eligible for open access publishing by their
Corresponding authors must use their institutional email address when submitting an article for publication in order for the publication to be approved to be published open access with no transactional APCs.
Corresponding authors should not use personal email addresses (e.g. Hotmail, Gmail). Doing so may result in delayed approval of the article or the article may not be approved to be published open access under the terms of the agreement.
Number of included articles
The Taylor & Francis RAP agreement enables ANU authors to publish accepted articles into selected hybrid e-journals from Taylor & Francis without any APCs.
Current agreement term: 2025-2025
Included titles
This agreement allows ANU authors to publish open access in 349 hybrid titles with no transactional APCs. View the list of eligible titles here.
Eligible articles
Article types
Open access publishing covered under this RAP agreement includes the following article types:
Acceptance date
Articles must have an acceptance date within the duration of this agreement (2023-2025) to be eligible to be published open access with no transactional APCs.
Number of included articles
Other charges
The publisher may charge service fees (e.g., colour-in-print, reprints, posters).
Responsible corresponding authors above may publish immediately to open access on the publisher's platform once the article has been accepted with no transactional APCs.
Author rights
Articles from authors at participating institutions will be published under a CC-BY or CC BY-NC-ND licence.
Further information about the licences is available on the publisher’s website.
The Creative Commons licenses allow reuse (some with conditions) while protecting the authors' rights of acknowledgment as authors. Authors retain copyright.
How to submit your article for open access publishing
For more information on the author workflow refer to this guide for authors on the Taylor & Francis website.
Author identification
Authors will be identified as eligible for open access publishing with no transactional APCs by:
Learn more about training from Wiley on additional topics here.
The Wiley RAP agreement enables ANU authors to publish immediately to open access on the publisher's platform once the article has been accepted, with no transactional APCs.
Current agreement term: 2025
Included titles
This agreement allows ANU authors to publish open access in approximately 1,400 titles with no transactional APCs.View the list of eligible titles here. - those available for ANU authors to publish open access in under the agreement are marked 'Yes' in the 'Included in RAP Agreement' column.
Wiley's Journal Finder tool allows ANU authors to search for journals in their fields and instantly compare key impact metrics
Eligible articles
Article types
Open access publishing covered under this agreement includes the following article types:
Article types excluded from this agreement include, but are not limited to:
View Wiley's list of article classifications, which includes an indication of whether they are eligible for open access publishing.
Authors may publish excluded article types as “closed access” or pay an article publication charge (if applicable) to make the article open access.
Acceptance date
Articles must have an acceptance date fron 1 january 2025 to be eligible to be published open access with no transactional APCs.
Number of included articles
Responsible corresponding authors* above may publish immediately to open access on the publisher's platform once the article has been accepted with no transactional APCs. Page and colour charges may apply.
Author rights
Articles from authors at participating institutions may be published under the author's choice of the following licences:
Further information about the licences is available on the publisher’s website.
The Creative Commons licenses allow reuse (some with conditions) while protecting the authors' rights of acknowledgment as authors. Authors retain copyright.
How to submit your article for open access publishing
For more information on the author workflow refer to this step-by-step guide on publishing open access in Wiley hybrid journals.
* Each article may have more than one corresponding author, but only a single designated 'responsible corresponding author' who will be in charge of the administrative details for the article.
Author identification
Authors will be identified as eligible for open access publishing with no transactional APCs by their
Responsible corresponding authors must use their institutional email address when submitting an article for publication in order for the publication to be approved to be published open access with no transactional APCs.
Responsible corresponding authors should not use personal email addresses (e.g. Hotmail, Gmail). Doing so may result in delayed approval of the article or the article may not be approved to be published open access under the terms of the agreement.
View Wiley's guide to Open Access publication.
Refer to this step-by-step guideon publishing open access in Wiley hybrid journals, for more information on the author workflow.
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