Publish & Read Agreements

The University Library has entered into a 2 year pilot (2020-2021) Publish & Read Agreement with the Microbiology Society which publishes 6 journals.  

The agreement allows University of Adelaide corresponding authors to publish their work open access under a Creative Commons Attribution licence in all 6 journals at no cost to them. There are no limits to the amount of publications covered by the agreement. The Society will confirm details with you about the agreement during the peer review process. To be eligible simply ensure that the University of Adelaide is listed as your institutional affiliation. 

All of the Microbiology Society content, including the entire archive back to 1947, will also be available to members of the University for reading and text and data mining.  

The University Library has entered into a 3 year pilot (2020-2022) Publish & Read Agreement with the Biochemical Society which publishes 7 journals.

The agreement allows University of Adelaide corresponding authors to publish their work open access under a Creative Commons Attribution licence in all 7 journals at no cost to them. There are no limits to the amount of publications covered by the agreement. The Society will confirm details with you about the agreement during the peer review process. To be eligible simply ensure that the University of Adelaide is listed as your institutional affiliation.

All of the Biochemical Society content, including the entire archive back to 1906, will also be available to members of the University for reading and text and data mining.

Simply list the University of Adelaide as your first institutional affiliation and use your adelaide.edu.au email address. You won’t have to deal with any invoices or tokens. The relevant Society will confirm details of the agreement with you on acceptance of publication.

The Microbiology Society have an article and journal metrics page for all their publications. Impact and information for the Biochemic Society journals can be found in the about section of the journal pages. You can also look them up yourself using Scimago or ask your liaison librarian.

Yes. Both agreements cover University of Adelaide students. As long as you are the corresponding author and list the University as your first affiliation you will be covered by the agreement.

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

Without the Publish & Read agreements you would have been charged an APC ranging from $1,300 to $4,000 AUD to publish open access in the Microbiology Society and the Biochemical Society journals.   

No. The Library does not have funds to pay for individual APCs. However, it’s likely that we’ll enter into separate Publish & Read agreements with other publishers in the future. We will add details of all available agreements on this page.

In the meantime you can make your work open access for free via our institutional repository, Adelaide Research and Scholarship. Simply deposit your Authors Accepted Manuscript in Aurora.   

Yes, it’s likely that we’ll have more Publish & Read agreements in the future. Negotiations are already underway with other publishers but these agreements are complex and will take time. We’ll add details of all available agreements on this page.

In the meantime you can make your work open access for free via our institutional repository, Adelaide Research and Scholarship. Simply deposit your Authors Accepted Manuscript in Aurora.   

If you were an eligible author and either of the Society’s charge you an APC throughout the term of the Publish & Read agreements then they’ll refund you the fee.

If you were an eligible author and published with the Society’s throughout the term of the Publish & Read agreements then they will make your work open access.   

You will have the chance to opt out of the Publish & Read agreements. However, open access has advantages for you by increasing the discoverability and accessibility of your work which can lead to increased citations.

Open access is a requirement of NHMRC and ARC funding as well as the University of Adelaide. If you don’t take advantage of the Publish & Read agreements then you’ll need to meet these requirements in other ways, such as depositing your Authors Accepted Manuscript into a repository, but this will be more work for you.

Open access is more than free access. Copyright restrictions can prevent research being shared and built upon. A Creative Commons licence allows you to keep your copyright while giving users permission to use your work in certain ways and ensures that it is truly open. The licences require that you’ll be attributed as the author. You’ll be given the choice to publish your article under a Creative Commons Attribution licence (CC BY) or a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike licence (CC BY-SA).