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Open Access Publishing

Read & Publish Agreements

 



 		 Springer Nature R&P Agreement Wiley R&P Agreement
Oxford Academic R&P Agreement		 CSIRO R&P Agreement         

 

RIS Read & Publish agreements allow DPI authors to publish no fee Open Access in 4,300+ eligible journals. View each publisher page to find:

  • Eligible titles
  • Author submission instructions
  • Exclusions - like article caps (maximum number of articles allowed per year)
  • List of participating institutions
ARTICLE CAPS:
Wiley and Springer agreements include a cap on the number of articles that can be published per year across the AU/NZ consortium. Once the cap has been reached, an APC will be charged. Please note the cap could expire while your paper is in the submission process. Please consult with RIS for more specific advice on cap expiry dates for your journal. 

 

** Elsevier **
DPI does not have a Read & Publish agreement with Elsevier. You may find your co-authors from Australian and New Zealand academic institutions do have an agreement and can qualify for no-fee open access publishing. 

Read & Publish agreements (R&P) leverage the cost of subscriptions paid by libraries to offer article processing charges (APC) at no cost to authors from the subscribing institution.

 

Old Model: library pays for 'READ' access to journals via library subscriptions. Authors pay for APC to publish Open Access (OA).

New Model: library negotiates a license that includes both READ + PUBLISH. No additional cost for authors to publish OA. 

 

Key Points

  • RIS has signed R&P agreements via the CAUL (Council of Australian University Librarians) Consortium and joins Australian and New Zealand academic members who are also participating.

  • Each publisher has nominated eligible titles that you can publish OA in at no additional cost. You'll find title lists and specific instructions via each publisher page.  

DPI authors will be automatically recognised during the submission process when using an @daf.qld.gov.au email.
Refer to each publisher page for specific author submission instructions and screenshots.

Key points: 

  1. Nominate as the CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
  2. Submit your paper using the normal process and use your @daf.qld.gov.au email address
  3. You will be recognised by the @daf email AND/OR by selecting DPI from a list of participating institutions
  4. You will receive confirmation that you are eligible to receive OA publishing at no charge
  5. Select your preferred OA licence type. RIS recommends CC-BY

If a co-author also has an R&P agreement, they may prefer to nominate as the corresponding author.

Article Processing Charges (APCs) for open access publishing can normally cost from $3,000 to $6,000 per article.
If you nominate as the corresponding author within one of our Read & Publish agreements, you will be eligible to publish OA without incurring an APC. Exclusions are noted below


RIS Costs:

  • RIS continues to fund subscription access for DPI staff to access online journal content from Springer, Wiley, Cambridge, Oxford and CSIRO. This spend is now leveraged to deliver more value for DPI authors who wish to publish OA, by removing the APC for eligible titles. 
  • RIS has agreed to take on some additional costs to bring these deals to DPI authors, however the savings to DPI authors far exceed the small increase in spend. 


R&P Agreements - when do you need to pay APCs?

  • If you choose to publish in a journal that is not within the eligible list of of titles. Refer to title lists for each deal.
  • Some agreements have a cap on the number of articles that can be published during the term of the agreement. If the cap has been reached you can choose to:
    • Pay the APC (a discount may be available)
    • Publish behind a paywall (don't opt for OA)
    • Delay publication until the new agreement commences and the cap is replenished.

Open Access means there are no barriers between your research and the people who want to read it.

 

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