Get Published

AUT Library has signed up to CAUL Consortium "Read and Publish" agreements (also known as transformative agreements) with academic journal publishers. These agreements enable corresponding authors from AUT to publish open access with some of the major publishers at no cost to themselves or the faculty. 

Notes: The Council of Australian University Librarians (CAUL) is the peak leadership organisation for university libraries in Australasia. CAUL members include 39 Australian University Librarians and 8 New Zealand University Librarians.  

Getting help: please contact your Liaison librarian.

Publishers and journals

Click the links below to find more details from the CAUL's online guide or publishers' websites:

• Cambridge University Press
• CSIRO
• Karger Publishers
• Oxford University Press
• Springer Nature - journals published by Nature research and BMC, are not included in this agreement. You can sort the eligible journal list by disciplines. 
• The Company of Biologists
• The Royal Society
• Wiley - you may browse Wiley's 6 steps to publishing open access guide.  

Who is eligible?

• AUT researchers - you must be the Corresponding author of your article
• Publishers will match your AUT affiliation and a relevant institutional email address. ORCID and Ringgold ID may also be used for identifications.

Eligible articles

Please check the Eligible articles section on the publisher's page in the CAUL's online guide to ensure that your article has met the eligibility criteria. 

Key information

Notes: 

• The article allowance provided by Oxford, Springer Nature and Wiley is an allocation shared by all CAUL libraries and will be used on a first come-first served basis
• Find up-to-date approval number for Oxford, Springer Nature and Wiley in CAUL's reports
• Learn the difference between the CC licenses from the Creative Commons licenses page
• Find definitions for the Hybrid or Gold journal from our Open Access guide

Please read each publisher's guidelines first before submitting your articles:

• Cambridge University Press: read the Information for authors and the step-by-step guide
• CSIRO: read the CAUL's guide for author. Check author guidelines on the individual journal website
• Karger Publishers: read the CAUL's guide for authors and the following submission guide:

• Oxford University Press: submit your articles to a participating journal. When your article is accepted, you will receive an email asking you to log into the Oxford Journals Author Services site and select a license. Please read this five-step guide to complete this process.
• The Royal Society: read the CAUL's guide for authors 
• Springer Nature: check the CAUL's guide. You may watch the video author journey and article approval.
• The Company of Biologists: find details on CAUL's online guide. You may also read the author's guide on the publisher's website.
• Wiley: read the CAUL's guide for author.

Author Identification

When submitting your article to the following publishers, please meet the author identification requirements accordingly: 

ORCiD and Ringgold ID may be required when submitting your article with the journals covered by the "Read & Publish" agreements.

• If you don't have an ORCiD, please register one through AUT Research Elements. Find more details from our ORCiD guide 
• AUT Ringgold ID: 1410

 AUT researchers will get a 12.5% discount on Article Publishing Charges when publishing open access with Elsevier's hybrid journals in 2022. 

Elsevier hybrid journal list

Find the eligible hybrid journal list.

Notes: Hybrid journals are subscription-based journals which allow a portion of articles to be open access. Usually an APC fee is applied to OA publishing.

Who is eligible?

• You are the Corresponding author of your article
• You must use AUT affiliation and email address during the submission/publishing process

How it works

• When your manuscript has been accepted by an Elsevier hybrid journal, the system will confirm your eligibility for the 12.5% APC discount

• When "Publish as an open access article" is selected, you will see the 12.5% deduction and the amount of APC you need to pay:

• As the discount is offered to CAUL member subscribers, an approval process will be carried out by CAUL
• After the approval, you will then be invoiced for the remainder 

If you would like to know more about the Elsevier Author publication process, please read the online guide on the Elsevier website.

Notes:  You (and your co-author/s) will need to pay for the rest of the Article Publishing Charge.