Read & Publish

This agreement allows authors to publish in 23 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 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.

This agreement allows authors to publish in 388 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 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.

This agreement allows authors to publish in 15 CSIRO owned journals plus 2 society journals.

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.

For the first half of 2023, this agreement included 235 titles. For articles accepted from 15 June 2023, this agreement includes 1,649 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 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.

This agreement allows authors to publish in 76 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 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.

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

SAGE is a global academic publisher of books, journals, and a growing suite of library products and services. 

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 .

Please note: The article cap for the Springer Read & Publish agreement is likely to be reached by early November, for further information on caps see the CAUL website. To discuss alternative options for publishing open access, contact your Liaison Librarian.

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 authors 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.

• 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 Elsevier, Oxford University Press, Springer, and Wiley and Hindawi. 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 Elsevier, Oxford University Press, Springer, and Wiley and Hindawi.

Eligible article types depend on the publisher. Check the Inclusions and Information for authors links on the CAUL website for specific details.

The Read and Publish agreements cover journal articles only. The Library cannot offer support for paying Book Processing Charges (BPC) to publish Open Access books. Your funding may cover such charges.

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.

The agreements only apply to article processing charges. Some journals may charge additional fees such as mandatory page charges, and fees for colour images and figures. Check the publisher-specific information on the CAUL website, and the journal's instructions for authors for details.

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.

Always check the publisher’s terms regarding specific licenses to understand your rights as author. For help selecting the most appropriate Creative Commons license for your work, try the Creative Commons License Chooser tool.

Selected Read and Publish agreements have publisher imposed caps. The cap applies to the entire CAUL consortium membership and may be reached by the end of the year. CAUL has produced a report with approval and rejection statistics for capped agreements to help Universities monitor the capped status.

If a quota is exceeded, University of Adelaide authors can:

1. Publish the article open and source funds to pay the APC
2. Publish under traditional subscription model (read only access behind a paywall).

Authors are encouraged to submit an accepted version of their paper to Adelaide Research and Scholarship. To further discuss your publishing options please contact your Liaison Librarian.