Read & Publish

The Biochemical Society (Portland Press) enables corresponding authors to publish their work open access under a Creative Commons attribution license in 7 journals. This agreement provides access to all content, including the entire archive back to 1906, and can also be used for text and data mining.

Information for authors: The Biochemical Society will confirm details with you about the agreement during your peer review process.

The Company of Biologists enables corresponding authors to publish their work open access under a Creative Commons Attribution license in 5 journals. This agreement also provides access to all content, including the entire archive back to 1853.

Information for authors: You can find publisher-specific information including author rights and details about how to submit your article for open access publishing on the CAUL website.

The Future Science Group publish 19 journals across the Future Medicine and Future Science websites. Coverage includes clinical and translational medicine, bioscience, applied science and intellectual property issues in research and development. This agreement excludes drug evaluation articles and content or research that is sponsored or funded by pharmaceutical or biotechnology companies. This agreement provides access to back issues of these journals back to 2018.

Information for authors: You can find publisher-specific information including author rights and details about how to submit your article for open access publishing on the CAUL website.

The Karger Publishers publish over 100 journals in the field of medical science. Corresponding authors can publish immediately to open access on the publisher's platform once the article has been accepted. This agreement also provides access to all back issues of these journals back to 1990, and can also be used for text and data mining.

Information for authors: You can find publisher-specific information including author rights and details about how to submit your article for open access publishing on the CAUL website.

The Microbiology Society is a membership charity for scientists interested in microbes, their effects and practical uses, and they publish 6 journals. This agreement also provides access to back issues of these journals back to 1947, and can also be used for text and data mining.

Information for authors: The Microbiology Society will confirm details with the author during the manuscript submission process. You can find publisher-specific information including author rights and details about how to submit your article for open access publishing on the CAUL website.

Oxford University Press publish over 350 journals across a wide range of disciplines including the humanities, social sciences, law, science, and medicine. This agreement also provides read access to 365 titles.

Information for authors: You can find publisher-specific information including author rights and details about how to submit your article for open access publishing on the CAUL website.

The Royal Society publish 10 journals across the biological, physical, mathematical and engineering sciences. This agreement also provides access to back issues of these journals back to 1665.

Information for authors: You can find publisher-specific information including author rights and details about how to submit your article for open access publishing on the CAUL website.

The Springer agreement enables authors to publish in approximately 2000 journals across disciplines.

Information for authors: You can find publisher-specific information including author rights and details about how to submit your article for open access publishing on the CAUL website.

The Wiley agreement includes over 1400 journals across disciplines including high impact journals available for auhors to publish their work open access.

Information for authors: You can find publisher-specific information including author rights and details about how to submit your article for open access publishing on the CAUL website.

• 12.5% discount applied on the current article processing charge for over 1800 hybrid journals
• For the full title list, see the CAUL webpage
• Available to corresponding authors affiliated with the University of Adelaide
• On validation from CAUL (Council of Australian University Librarians) that the article is eligible for discount, Elsevier will send an invoice of the discounted APC value to the address provided by the corresponding author.

Information for authors: Authors must submit their articles to the relevant journal via the Elsevier journal workflow. The corresponding author is responsible for the payment of the discounted APC. Articles are automatically published under a CC BY or CC BY NC ND license as determined by the corresponding author.

• 15% discount off the article processing charge
• The discount is automatically applied to the APC upon acceptance of an article
• You must use your University of Adelaide email address
• All journals included

• 15% discount off the article processing charge
• The discount is automatically applied to the APC upon acceptance of an article
• You must use your University of Adelaide email address
• All journals included

The agreements cover all University of Adelaide corresponding authors, both staff and students. To be eligible you must ensure that the University of Adelaide is your first affiliation and that you use your University email address.

To be covered by the University of Adelaide’s Read & Publish agreements you must be the corresponding author. If the corresponding author is from another institution, it is worth checking if their institution has signed up to a Read & Publish agreement.

If no agreement exists then you can still make your work open access for free via our institutional repository, Adelaide Research and Scholarship. Simply deposit your Author Accepted Manuscript in Aurora.

Most of the Read & Publish agreements provide access to authors for unlimited publishing. The exceptions are Oxford University Press, Springer and Wiley. These publishers have capped limits that are shared across all participating institutions within the Council of Australian University Librarians (CAUL) consortium. The limits reset at the beginning of the calendar year. Reports are now available on the capped agreements, providing up-to-date statistics. For further information on the number of articles covered by these agreements, see the Number of included articles section in the CAUL publisher pages for Oxford University Press, Springer and Wiley.

Make sure that you list the University of Adelaide as your first listed institutional affiliation and use your adelaide.edu.au email address. There are no invoices or tokens required.

The relevant publisher will confirm details of the agreement with you on acceptance of publication.

Publishing outside of a Read & Publish agreement, an APC varies from $1,300 to $5,000 AUD to publish open access within these journals.

The Library is unable to pay for APCs. We will, however, continue to negotiate with publishers for Read & Publish agreements. Any new agreements will be added to this page and will be promoted.

If you were an eligible author and any of the publishers charge you an APC throughout the term of a Read & Publish agreement, then the fee should be refunded. Contact your Liaison Librarian for guidance.

Read & Publish agreements are not retrospective. Only newly submitted articles can be published as part of these agreements.

All articles published as open access within these Read & Publish agreements will remain open access in perpetuity.

If you are eligible to publish in a journal covered by a Read & Publish agreement, the publisher will make your work open access.   

You will have an opportunity to opt out of the Read & Publish agreement. However, making your work open access has a range of benefits, including increasing the discoverability and accessibility of your work, and leading to increased citations.

The University of Adelaide strongly encourages open access publishing and it is also a funding requirement of outputs from NHMRC and ARC grants. There are several ways that you can ensure your article is open access. If you don’t take advantage of publishing via a Read & Publish agreement, you will need to ensure that you meet these requirements in other ways, such as by depositing your Author Accepted Manuscript into the University’s institutional repository, Adelaide Research and Scholarship.

Copyright restrictions can prevent research being shared and built upon. A Creative Commons license ensures that you keep your copyright while at the same time giving users permission to use your work in certain ways and ensures that it is truly open. All Creative Commons licenses require that you are attributed as the author. Each Read & Publish agreement will include specific information around author rights and attribution.