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Open Access Publishing Agreements (RAP and S20)

Current Read & Publish agreements

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:

  • Interview
  • Note
  • Research Article
  • Short Paper
  • Survey
  • Technical Note
  • Tutorial

Article types excluded from this agreement include, but are not limited to:

  • Abstract
  • Announcement
  • Article Commentary
  • Book Review
  • Column
  • Correction
  • Course
  • Demonstration
  • Editorial
  • Extended Abstract
  • Forum
  • Introduction
  • Invited Talk
  • Letter
  • Opinion
  • Other
  • Panel
  • Poster

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.

Publisher FAQ’s

Publisher’s Guide for Open Access Authors

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:

  • Research Articles (including Brief Reports)
  • Review Articles.

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:

  • research articles
  • reviewed articles
  • conference article
  • perspective

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

  • This agreement provides for an allowance of articles* by authors to be published open access from 2023-2025 with no transactional APCs. 
  • The allowance is a collective pool for all participating Council of Australian University Librarians (CAUL) Member institutions.
  • Once the allowance is used, authors of any additional articles accepted in 2025, may choose to publish articles as "closed access" or pay an APC for the article to be published open access.
  • For each article published above the Article Cap, ANU authors will be charged a discounted APC rate of $2,800 (list price is $3,500).

*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

  1. Follow the publisher's usual article submission process via the AIPP website - ensuring that you are listed as the corresponding author, both in the AIPP online submission system and in your manuscript.
  2. Select the ANU as the institutional affiliation as part of the submission process. As the ANU has an agreement in place, it will show that on the page and the article will be tagged to publish open access.
  3. Upon acceptance of the manuscript, choose and sign either a CC BY or CC BY-NC open access license.

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:

  • research article
  • review article
  • brief report
  • case report
  • rapid communication

Article types excluded from this agreement include, but are not limited to:

  • research article
  • review article
  • brief report
  • case report
  • rapid communication
  • book review
  • editorial/introduction
  • interview
  • obituary

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

  • CC-BY
  • CC-BY-NC
  • CC-BY-NC-ND.

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

  1. Follow the publisher's usual article submission process via the journal home page on brill.com, in which articles are submitted via editorial manager. The author should opt for open access and indicate that they are affiliated with a participating institution.
  2. On acceptance of the article, the publisher will ask the corresponding author to complete a form (publishing agreement).
  3. The corresponding author selects open access and confirms the licence type (e.g. CC-BY).
  4. The APC is automatically waived for authors who have indicated they are affiliated with a participating institution.

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.

View Brill's step-by-step guide for authors.

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:

  • Research articles
  • Review articles
  • Rapid communications
  • Brief reports
  • Case reports

Article types excluded from this agreement include:

  • Abstracts
  • Addendums
  • Article commentary
  • Book reviews
  • Books received
  • Calendars
  • Collections
  • Commentaries
  • Contents
  • Corrections
  • Corrigendum
  • Discussions
  • Editorials
  • Errata
  • In brief
  • Introductions
  • Letters
  • Meeting reports
  • News
  • Obituaries
  • Orations
  • Product reviews
  • Replies
  • Retractions 

Authors who wish to make excluded article types openly available may choose to:

  • Publish “closed access” and deposit the Author’s Accepted Manuscript in their institutional repository – view the publisher’s Green Open Access Policy for Journals for information on embargoes.
  • Pay an APC (if applicable) to publish the article open access.

 

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:

  • Invasive Plant Science and Management (INP)
  • Radiocarbon (RDC)
  • Weed Science (WSC)
  • Weed Technology (WET)

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:

  • CC-BY
  • CC-BY-SA
  • CC-BY-ND
  • CC-BY-NC
  • CC-BY-NC-SA
  • CC-BY-NC-ND.

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

  1. Follow CUP’s usual article submission process via the journal’s homepage on Cambridge Core.
  2. On acceptance of the article, CUP will ask the corresponding author to complete a form (publishing agreement).
  3. The corresponding author selects Gold Open Access and confirms the licence type (i.e. CC-BY).
  4. Rightslink works on the publisher's behalf to manage the APCs. When the submitting author is from an eligible CAUL institution, the APC will be automatically waived.

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:

  • Research articles
  • Review articles
  • Brief article types

Article types excluded from this agreement include:

  • Abstracts
  • Addendums
  • Article commentary
  • Book reviews
  • Books received
  • Calendars
  • Collections
  • Commentaries
  • Contents
  • Corrections
  • Corrigendum
  • Discussions
  • Editorials
  • Errata
  • In brief
  • Introductions
  • Letters
  • Meeting reports
  • News
  • Obituaries
  • Orations
  • Product reviews
  • Replies
  • Retractions

Authors who wish to make excluded article types openly available may choose to:

  • Pay an APC (if applicable) to publish the article open access.

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:

  • Genes & Development
  • Genome Research
  • RNA
  • Learning & Memory.

Eligible Articles

Article Types

Open access publishing covered under this Read & Publish agreement includes the following article types:

  • research articles
  • review articles
  • case-study articles.

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:

  • CC-BY
  • CC-BY-ND

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

  1. Follow CSHL’s usual article submission process via the journal’s homepage.
  2. On acceptance of the article, CSHL will ask the corresponding author to complete a form (publishing agreement).
  3. The corresponding author selects and confirms the licence type (i.e. CC-BY).
  4. Rightslink works on the publisher's behalf to manage the APCs. When the submitting author is from an eligible institution, the APC will be automatically waived.

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

  • Development
  • Journal of Cell Science
  • Journal of Experimental Biology
  • Disease Models and Mechanisms
  • Biology Open

Eligible articles

Article types

Open access publishing covered under this Read & Publish agreement includes the following article types:

  • Original research paper article

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 

  • CC-BY 
  • CC-BY-SA 
  • CC-BY-ND 
  • CC-BY-NC 
  • CC-BY-NC-SA 
  • CC-BY-NC-ND

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

  1. Follow the publisher's usual article submission process via the journal’s homepage.
  2. On acceptance of the article, the publisher will ask the corresponding author to complete a form (publishing agreement). 
  3. The corresponding author selects open access and confirms the licence type (e.g. CC-BY). 
  4. The APC is automatically waived for authors who have used an institutional email address belonging to one of the participating institutions and indicated they are affiliated with a participating institution. 

View the publisher’s step-by-step guide for authors. 

Author identification

Authors will be identified as eligible for open access publishing by their  

  • email address 
  • institutional affiliation 
  • IP address range. 

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

  1. Follow the publisher's usual article submission process via the journal’s homepage.
  2. On acceptance of the article, the publisher will ask the corresponding author to complete a form (publishing agreement). 
  3. The corresponding author selects open access and confirms the licence type (e.g. CC-BY). 
  4. The APC is automatically waived for authors who have used an institutional email address belonging to one of the participating institutions and indicated they are affiliated with a participating institution. 

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:

  • Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews
  • Applied Catalysis B: Environmental
  • Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews

And titles with high Australian and New Zealand authorship, such as:

  • Science of the Total Environment
  • Women and Birth
  • Chemical Engineering Journal

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:

  • full length articles
  • review articles
  • case reports
  • practice guidelines
  • replication study.

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

  • This agreement provides for an allowance of articles* by authors to be published open access in 2025 with no transactional APCs.
  • The allowance is a collective pool for all participating CAUL (Council of Australian University Librarians) Member institutions.
  • Once the allowance is used, authors of any additional articles accepted in 2025, may choose to publish articles as "closed access" or pay an APC for the article to be published open access, with a 15% discount.
  • Articles published open access in gold open access or hybrid journals not included in this agreement are eligible for a 15% discount on the APC.

*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

  1. Follow the publisher's usual article submission process via the Elsevier website - ensuring that you are listed as the corresponding author.
  2. Select the ANU as the institutional affiliation and state the relevant research funding source(s) as part of the submission process.
  3. Upon acceptance of the manuscript, choose and sign either a CC BY or CC BY-NC-ND open access license.

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:

  • institutional affiliation as stated in the article to be published
  • ANU email address provided in the submission process.

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:

  • Review type articles
  • Original research type articles
  • Editorial type articles

Article types excluded from this agreement include, but are not limited to:

  • All sponsored articles and drug evaluations
  • Plan Language Summaries Publications (PLSP)

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

  • Geochemistry: Exploration, Environment, Analysis
  • Geoenergy
  • Journal of the Geological Society (formerly quarterly journal of the Geological Society
  • Petroleum Geoscience
  • Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society
  • Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology & Hydrogeology
  • Scottish Journal of Geology

Book series

  • Engineering Geology Special Publications
  • GeoHorizons
  • Memoirs
  • Special Publications

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:

  • Institutional affiliation
  • Email address

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.

  1. Corresponding authors submit using Editorial Manager submission system.
  2. During the manuscript submission process, corresponding authors will be informed that their article is eligible to be published under the agreement. It will be made clear that no APC is payable.
  3. Authors may opt not to publish Open Access during the manuscript submission process. There is no validation step by institutions and all eligible articles are published open access automatically.
  4. Authors retain the copyright in the article and a Creative Commons CC BY licence will be used for the published article.
  5. The decision to publish an article is always made on editorial criteria through the peer review process and is entirely separate from the model an article is published under.

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:

  • research articles
  • special issue articles
  • review articles
  • letters.

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

  1. Follow the publisher's usual article submission process via the IOPP website - ensuring that you are listed as the corresponding author.
  2. Select the ANU as the institutional affiliation as part of the submission process, and use your ANU email address.
  3. Upon acceptance of the manuscript, sign a CC BY open access license.

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

  • Research articles
  • Reviews
  • Introductory Articles

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:

  • Name and email address of the corresponding author, who must be affiliated with the Australian National University and using their university email address (anu.edu.au)
  • Full name of the corresponding author’s affiliation (e.g. institute, department)
  • Submission Date
  • Journal Title
  • Manuscript ID (if applicable)
  • Article type

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

  • Microbiology
  • Journal of General Virology
  • Journal of Medical Microbiology
  • International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology
  • Microbial Genomics (fully OA)
  • Access Microbiology (fully OA)

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 member institutions may be published under the authors' choice of either CC-BY or CC-BY-NC license. These licenses allow reuse (some with conditions) while protecting the authors' rights of acknowledgment as authors.
  • Third-party content included in a publication, for example images or graphics, should be clearly labelled and are not affected by these requirements.
  • The Creative Commons CC0 license will be assigned to the data accompanying the open access article.

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.

publishing workflow is available on the Microbiology Society website.

Publishing

  • The agreement provides open access publishing in all six journals by corresponding authors of institutions listed under 'participating institutions'. 
  • There is no limit on the number of articles that can be published under the agreement.
  • There are no transactional APCs or other service charges for papers submitted by corresponding authors from participating institutions.
  • The Microbiology Society will notify eligible authors of the RAP agreement during the manuscript submission process.

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:

  • Geophysical Journal International
  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters
  • RAS Techniques and Instruments

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

  • Briefings In Bioinformatics
  • FEMS Microbiology Ecology
  • FEMS Microbiology Reviews
  • FEMS Yeast Research
  • Health Policy And Planning
  • Briefings in Functional Genomics
  • European Heart Journal - Cardiovascular Pharmacotherapy
  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society*
  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters*
  • Geophysical Journal International*

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:

  • research articles
  • review articles
  • case reports
  • brief reports

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

  • A small number of included journals have mandatory page charges that are not covered by the agreement.
  • Colour printing is optional and colour printing charges are not included under the terms of the agreement. Figures can appear in colour online and black-and-white in print at no charge. These charges only apply to journals with print issues.
  • When submitting articles for publication, please check individual journal home pages for up-to-date information on page and colour charges.
  • The vast majority of OUP journals (and all of OUP-owned journals) either do not charge page charges, or waive those charges for Open Access publishing.  However, a small number of Society-owned journals still choose to keep page charges in place even for OA publishing.  OUP continues to work with its societies to move them away from this practice (and have been steadily reducing the number that do so over the last few years) but ultimately it is a society decision.

Journals which have mandatory page charges

  • American Entomologist
  • Annals of the Entomological Society of America
  • American Journal Of Epidemiology
  • Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Biochemistry
  • BioScience
  • Cerebral Cortex
  • Clinical Infectious Diseases
  • Endocrinology
  • Environmental Entomology
  • Genetics
  • Glycobiology
  • The Journal of Infectious Diseases
  • Insect Systematics and Diversity
  • Journal of Animal Science
  • Journal of Crustacean Biology
  • The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism
  • Journal of Economic Entomology
  • Journal of Mammalogy
  • Journal of Medical Entomology
  • Journal of Neuropathology and Experimental Neurology
  • Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation
  • Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan
  • Systematic Biology

Please note for articles to be published open access under the terms of this agreement, corresponding authors must:

  • Be publishing a research article, review article, brief report or case report, which is received into OUP production on or after 1 January 2023
  • Indicate a participating institution as their primary affiliation when submitting the article
  • Use an institutional email address for a participating institution when submitting their article. 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 still apply). 

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:

  • CC-BY
  • CC-BY-NC

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

  1. Follow the publisher's usual article submission process via the journal’s homepage.
  2. On acceptance of the article, the publisher will ask the corresponding author to complete a form (publishing agreement).
  3. The corresponding author selects open access and confirms the licence type (e.g. CC-BY). Please note, you will be asked to confirm that you will pay the open access charge, however, the charge will be automatically waived if your article is assessed as eligible for publishing under the agreement with no APCs.
  4. Proceed to payment and select Australia and New Zealand Institutions (CAUL affiliated) from the dropdown list of institutions beneath ‘Open Access Prepayment Account’ on the Article Charges page.
  5. Check the Refer Charge box next to the Open Access charge, and then click Refer Charges at the bottom of the page.

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:

  • Biochemical Journal
  • Bioscience Reports (fully OA)
  • Biochemical Society Transactions
  • Clinical Science
  • Emerging Topics in Life Sciences
  • Essays in Biochemistry

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 member institutions may be published under the authors' choice of either CC-BY or CC-BY-NC license. These licenses allow reuse (some with conditions) while protecting the authors' rights of acknowledgment as authors.
  • Third-party content included in a publication, for example images or graphics, should be clearly labelled and are not affected by these requirements.
  • The Creative Commons CC0 license will be assigned to the data accompanying the open access article.

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

  • The agreement provides open access publishing in all seven journals listed under 'Included titles' by corresponding authors from institutions listed under 'participating institutions'.
  • There are no transactional APCs or other service charges for papers submitted by corresponding authors from participating institutions.
  • The Biochemical Society will notify eligible authors of the RAP agreement during the manuscript submission process.
  • The Biochemical Society will supply an un-embargoed PDF of the version of record for institutional repositories.

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:

  • Original Research Papers
  • Review Papers
  • Brief Communications
  • Short Reports
  • Case Reports

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

  1. Follow the publisher's usual article submission process via the SAGE website - ensuring that you are listed as the corresponding author.
  2. Select the ANU as the institutional affiliation and state the relevant research funding source(s) as part of the submission process.
  3. Upon acceptance of the manuscript, choose and sign either a CC BY or CC BY-NC open access license.

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:

  • institutional affiliation as stated in the article to be published
  • ANU email address provided in the submission process.

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:

  • Original Paper: Standard article, generally presenting new results which may also be referred to as Original Research, Original Article, Original Paper or Research Paper. 
  • Review Paper: Standard article, interpreting previously published results. 
  • Brief Communication: Short article submitted for rapid publication that exhibits the same structure as a standard article.
  • Continuing Education: Article forming integral part of further education (usually medical).

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

  • This agreement provides for an allowance of articles 3513 articles to be published open access with no transactional APCs. 
  • The allowance is a collective pool for all participating Council of Australian University Librarians (CAUL) member institutions.
  • Once the allowance is used, authors of any additional articles accepted in 2025, may choose to publish articles as "closed access" or to pay an APC for the article to be published open access.

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:

  • CC-BY
  • CC-BY-NC.

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

  1. Follow the publisher's usual article submission process via the journal’s homepage.
  2. On acceptance of the article, the publisher will ask the corresponding author to complete a form (publishing agreement).
  3. The corresponding author selects open access and confirms the licence type (e.g. CC-BY).
  4. The APC is automatically waived for authors who have 
    • used an ANU email address
    • selected ANU as their institutional affiliation from a drop down list.

Author identification

Authors will be identified as eligible for open access publishing by their 

  • email address
  • institutional affiliation
  • IP address range.

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

  • This agreement provides for an allowance of articles* by authors to be published open access in 2025 with no transactional APCs. 
  • The allowance is a collective pool for all participating CAUL (Council of Australian University Librarians) Member institutions.
  • Once the allowance is used, authors of any additional articles accepted in 2025, may choose to publish articles as "closed access" or pay an APC for the article to be published open access.

View Springer Nature's guide to Open Access.

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:

  • article
  • review
  • research article
  • review article
  • report
  • short communication
  • case report note
  • original article
  • guest editorial.

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

  • This agreement provides for an allowance of 3877 articles by authors to be published open access in 2025 with no transactional APCs. 
  • The allowance is a collective pool for all participating CAUL (Council of Australian University Librarians) Member institutions.
  • Once the allowance is used, authors of any additional articles accepted in 2025, may choose to publish articles as "closed access" or pay an APC for the article to be published open access.

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

  1. Follow the publisher's usual article submission process via the Taylor & Francis website - ensuring that you are listed as the corresponding author.
  2. Select the ANU as the institutional affiliation as part of the submission process.
  3. Upon acceptance of the manuscript, choose and sign either a CC BY or CC BY-NC-ND open access license.

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:

  • IP ranges specified by the Institution; and/or ANU email address
  • persistent identifier, such as Ringgold, ORCID or other recognised institutional identifier as provided by the author
  • institutional affiliation as stated in the article to be published.

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:

  • Case studies
  • Reviews
  • Short communications
  • Commentary
  • Data Article
  • Education
  • Lecture
  • Method and Protocol
  • Perspective
  • Practice and Policy
  • Rapid Publication
  • Research Article
  • Review Article
  • Technical Note

Article types excluded from this agreement include, but are not limited to:

  • Abstract
  • Announcement
  • Career and Management
  • Classification
  • Correction
  • Correspondence
  • Editorial
  • Events
  • Index
  • Introduction
  • Media Review
  • Meeting Report
  • News
  • Obituary
  • Opinion
  • Profile
  • Retraction or Concern

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

  • This agreement provides for an allowance of 7038 articles by authors to be published with no transactional APCs.
  • The Cap is split with an allowance of 5348 articles for hybrid journals, and 1690 articles for fully open access journals.
  • The allowance is a collective pool for all participating CAUL (Council of Australian University Librarians) Member institutions.
  • Once the allowance is used, authors of any additional articles accepted in 2025, may choose to publish articles as "closed access" or pay an APC for the article to be published open access.

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:

  • CC-BY
  • CC-BY-NC
  • CC-BY-NC-ND

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

  1. Follow the publisher's usual article submission process via the journal’s homepage.
  2. On acceptance of the article, the responsible* corresponding author selects open access, confirms the licence type (e.g. CC-BY), and indicates funder and their institutional affiliation using Wiley Author Services.
  3. The APC will be waived for authors who have 
    • used an institutional email address belonging to one of the participating institutions and
    • selected a participating institution as their institutional affiliation.

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 

  • ANU email address and
  • and ANU institutional affiliation.

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.

The ANU Library has investigated whether RAP agreements can be established with a range of publishers. A full list of these investigations is below, with an explanation of why no RAP agreement is currently in place. If you would like us to check for a RAP agreement with a publisher who is not on this list, please contact us and we will investigate.

Read and Publish Agreement Status

  • ASME Journals and Proceedings: this agreement is not financially viable at this time
  • Cogitatio Press:  this agreement is not financially viable at this time.
  • IEEE: this agreement is not financially viable at this time.
  • Karger Publishers: this agreement is not financially viable at this time.
  • The Royal Society: this agreement is not financially viable at this time. Authors from ANU are eligible to receive an automatic 15% discount on APCs for the 2025 subscription year.
  • De Gruyter: this agreement does not represent value for money at this stage.
  • SPIE: this agreement is not financially viable at this time

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