University Library: Open Access: Read & Publish

Read & Publish agreements

Read and Publish Agreements, or Transformative Agreements, are aimed at making more of our research open access. These agreements work by taking the library’s existing expenditure on journal subscriptions and repurposing it to cover both reading and publishing in a particular publisher’s journals.

These Read and Publish Agreements allow Notre Dame-affiliated researchers to publish articles open access without paying an Article Processing Charge (APC).

Some key points to note:

Not all publishers offer Read & Publish Agreements
Not all journals are eligible under the agreements Notre Dame Library has signed. Details of each agreement can be found under the publisher tabs below.
Journal articles for eligible journals will be accepted from Notre Dame corresponding authors, using their Notre Dame email address, and made available under a Creative Commons CC-BY Licence (or a variant thereof)
Each agreement may have different conditions. For example, some publishers will allow unlimited submissions, whereas other publishers may set a limit (cap) that will apply across a calendar year for all participating Australian universities. For capped agreements, a link to reports showing approval and rejection statistics can be found below.

CAUL capped agreement statistics
Report showing approval and rejection figures for the capped Read & Publish agreements negotiated by CAUL.

If authors wish to publish in their chosen journal as closed access, they can deposit their author’s accepted manuscript as open access with ResearchOnline, the institutional repository, noting embargoes may apply.

Publisher Titles

CAUL Website - APA

Included titles

This agreement allows authors from participating institutions to publish open access an original peer-reviewed research or review article or a brief report in most of APA's hybrid journals, at no cost to the author. Articles will have the CC-BY copyright license.

APA - Read & Publish titles

This is an uncapped agreement. There is no limit to the number of articles that can be published OA.

CAUL website - Brill

This agreement allows authors from participating institutions to publish open access in up to 331 titles with no transactional APCs. Included titles for Notre Dame are restricted to Brill's Religious Studies collection - see list below.

Brill Religious Studies title list - Notre Dame eligible

Information for authors

Corresponding authors from Notre Dame may publish immediately to open access on the publisher's platform once the article has been accepted, with no transactional APCs. Authors will be recognised as being eligible for open access publishing by their Notre Dame email address and Notre Dame institutional affiliation.

How to submit your article for open access publishing

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.
On acceptance of the article, the publisher will ask the corresponding author to complete a form (publishing agreement).
The corresponding author selects open access and confirms the licence type (e.g. CC-BY).
The APC is automatically waived for authors who have indicated they are affiliated with a participating institution.
View the publisher’s step-by-step guide for authors.

Reproduced from Read & Publish Agreements Negotiated by CAUL: Brill. Licensed under CC BY 4.0

CAUL website - Cambridge University Press

Included titles
The agreement allows for publishing in 388 titles. Titles include journals such as Ageing and Society, British Journal of Psychiatry, and Political Analysis. Titles with high Australian and New Zealand authorship including Public Health Nutrition and Australasian Journal of Special and Inclusive Education, amongst many others.

Cambridge University Press - Read & Publish titles
Full list of Cambridge titles included in the Read & Publish agreement.

Information for authors

How to submit your article for open access publishing

Follow CUP’s usual article submission process via the journal’s homepage on Cambridge Core.
On acceptance of the article, CUP will ask the corresponding author to complete a form (publishing agreement).
The corresponding author selects Gold Open Access and confirms the licence type (i.e. CC-BY).
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.

In all correspondence with the publisher and Rightslink, authors must use their:

Institutional postal address
Institutional email address
ORCID

Reproduced from Read & Publish Agreements Negotiated by CAUL: Cambridge University Press. Licensed under CC BY 4.0

CAUL website - CSIRO Publishing

Included titles
From 2022 all 15 CSIRO owned journals will be included for publishing plus two (2) society journals. This includes titles such as Australian Journal of Botany and Australian Journal of Primary Health.

CSIRO Publishing - Read & Publish titles
Full list of CSIRO Publishing titles included in Read & Publish agreement.

Information for authors

Corresponding authors from Notre Dame 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.) Authors will be recognised as being eligible for open access publishing by their Notre Dame email address and Notre Dame institutional affiliation.

How to submit your article for open access publishing

Submit your article via the publisher's submission system, ScholarOne.
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.

Reproduced from Read & Publish Agreements Negotiated by CAUL: CSIRO Publishing. Licensed under CC BY 4.0

Note: This is a new agreement commencing in January 2023.

CAUL website - Elsevier

Included titles
The agreement allows for publishing in 235 titles, but the Notre Dame agreement only applies a subset of these journals related to our Health teaching and research areas. See Notre Dame's title list in document linked below.

Titles include journals such as International Journal of Cardiology, and Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport. Titles with high Australian and New Zealand authorship including Women and Birth and Australian Critical Care.

2023 Elsevier title list - Notre Dame eligible

Elsevier - Read & Publish titles
Full list of Elsevier titles included in Read & Publish agreement. Note that only the first 235 titles in this spreadsheet are relevant to this agreement.

Information for authors

How to submit your article for open access publishing

Follow the publisher's usual article submission process via https://www.elsevier.com/authors/submit-your-paper
On acceptance of the article, the publisher will ask the corresponding author to make their publishing choices and complete a form (publishing agreement).
The corresponding author selects open access and confirms the licence type (e.g. CC-BY).
The APC is automatically waived for authors who have declared their affiliation to a participating CAUL institution during the publishing workflow.

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 approved to be published open access with no transactional APCs.

For more information, please see the CAUL website linked above.

Reproduced from Read & Publish Agreements Negotiated by CAUL: Elsevier. Licensed under CC BY 4.0

CAUL website - Oxford University Press

Included titles
This agreement allows authors from participating institutions to publish open access in 351 titles with no transactional APCs. This includes titles such as Sociology of Religion, The Philosophical Quarterly, and titles with high Australian and New Zealand authorship, such as the Clinical Infectious Diseases and the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, amongst many others.

Oxford University Press - Read & Publish titles
Full list of OUP titles included in the Read & Publish agreement. Includes annotations for excluded titles.

Information for authors

How to submit your article for open access publishing

Follow the publisher's usual article submission process via the journal’s homepage.
On acceptance of the article, the publisher will ask the corresponding author to complete a form (publishing agreement).
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 but you will not need to pay the charge provided that your eligibility is confirmed by the institution).
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.
Check the ‘Refer Charge?’ box next to the Open Access charge, and then click ‘Refer Charges’ at the bottom of the page.

Note: Authors will be identified as eligible for open access publishing by their email address. For this reason, 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.

Reproduced from Read & Publish Agreements Negotiated by CAUL: Oxford University Press. Licensed under CC BY 4.0

This is a new agreement commencing in January 2023.

CAUL website - SAGE

Included titles

The agreement allows for publishing in 924 hybrid only titles. This includes:

high impact titles such as Psychological Science in the Public Interest, Dialogues in Human Geography, Personality and Social Psychology Review.
titles with high Australian and New Zealand authorship, such as Alternative Law Journal, AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples, Australasian Psychiatry.

SAGE - Read & Publish titles
Full list of Sage titles included in Read & Publish agreement

Information for authors

How to submit your article for open access publishing

Each SAGE journal has its own Editorial office and its own Manuscript Submission guidelines. To submit your article, go to the list of SAGE journals, search for the one you wish to submit to, click on the Manuscript Submission guidelines tab to get details on how to submit your article. For help finding an open access journal, use the SAGE Journal Recommender – enter keywords and the title of your manuscript to search over 1,000 SAGE journals and compare those most relevant for your research. Search results can be limited to those participating in SAGE Path, a service that helps you quickly and easily find, submit, and get published with the right SAGE journal.

Reproduced from Read & Publish Agreements Negotiated by CAUL: SAGE. Licensed under CC BY 4.0

CAUL website - Springer Nature

Included titles

The CAUL agreement allows authors from participating institutions to publish open access in 1976 titles with no transactional APCs. This includes most titles across Springer Nature imprints including Springer, Palgrave, ADIS, and Academic Journals on Nature.com. Titles include Journal of Religious Education, Behavior Research Methods, and European Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery & Traumatology.

Note that Nature titles are not included.

Springer Nature - Read & Publish titles
Full list of Springer Nature titles included in the Read & Publish agreement. Includes annotations for excluded titles.

Information for authors

How to submit your article for open access publishing

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

Reproduced from Read & Publish Agreements Negotiated by CAUL: Springer Nature. Licensed under CC BY 4.0

Note: This is a new agreement commencing in January 2023.

CAUL website - Taylor & Francis

Included titles
The agreement allows for publishing in 349 titles. Titles include journals such as Medical Teacher and Critical Reviews in Environmental Science. Titles with high Australian and New Zealand authorship including Journal of Sports Sciences and Higher Education Research & Development.

Taylor & Francis - Read & Publish titles
Full list of Taylor & Francis titles included in Read & Publish agreement.

Information for authors

How to submit your article for open access publishing

Follow the publisher's usual article submission process via the Submission Portal.
On acceptance of the article, you will be informed if CAUL has approved your article for open access funding. If approved, the publisher will ask the corresponding author to complete a form (publishing agreement).
The corresponding author confirms the licence type (e.g. CC-BY).
The APC is automatically waived for authors who have used an institutional email address belonging to one of the participating institutions

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

email address
institutional affiliation

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.

For more information, please see the CAUL website linked above.

Reproduced from Read & Publish Agreements Negotiated by CAUL: Taylor & Francis. Licensed under CC BY 4.0

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Included titles

The CAUL agreement allows authors from participating institutions to publish open access in approximately 1,400 titles with no transactional APCs. This includes titles such as Psycho-Oncology, Journal of Clinical Nursing, and Journal of Advanced Nursing.

Page and colour charges are not included under the terms of this agreement.

CAUL website - Wiley
Wiley - Read & Publish titles
Full list of Wiley titles included in Read & Publish agreement. Includes annotations for excluded titles.

Information for authors

Wiley is likely to exceed its cap by end of 2024 so don't delay!

Important Notice for Authors

To ensure prompt approval for open-access publishing (without extra fees), corresponding authors MUST use their institutional email address when submitting articles.
Using a personal email (e.g., Hotmail, Gmail) can cause delays or prevent open access approval.

How to submit your article for open-access publishing

Follow the publisher's usual article submission process via the journal’s homepage.
On acceptance of the article, the responsible* corresponding author selects open access, confirms the licence type (e.g. CC-BY), and indicates the funder and their institutional affiliation using Wiley Author Services.
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.

*Please also note that for Wiley journals, each article may have more than one corresponding author, but only a single designated 'responsible corresponding author' will be in charge of the administrative details for the article.

Reproduced from Read & Publish Agreements Negotiated by CAUL: Wiley. Licensed under CC BY 4.0