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Open Access Publishing Agreements
AUT Open Access Agreements
About the Agreements
Using the Agreements
Hybrid and Fully Open Journals
ACM
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Brill
Cambridge University Press
Company of Biologists
CSIRO
Elsevier
Emerald
IOP Publishing
John Benjamins
Karger Publishers
Oxford University Press
Sage
Springer Nature
Taylor & Francis
The Royal Society
Wiley & Hindawi
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About the Agreements
AUT's Open Access Publishing agreements:
Are negotiated by the Council of Australasian University Librarians (CAUL)
Enable corresponding authors from AUT to publish
open access free of Article Processing Charges (APCs)
Cover 18 publishers and thousand of journals
Predominantly cover hybrid and fully open access ('gold') journals
Have a 1 January effective date each year
Important:
Publishers provide a list of the journals included under the agreement. Not all journals are included.
Some publishers place a cap on the number of articles that can be published under the agreement each year
The agreements do not cover additional charges made by some publishers, such as page, colour or service fees
CAUL 2025 Journal Title List
Open the CAUL list to find journals covered under AUT agreements. Select your Institution as AUT.
Using the Agreements
Before submission you must:
Check that the journal you want to publish in is included in the publisher agreements
Check the article you want to publish is an eligible article type
Check for any additional charges not covered under the agreements
If it is a capped agreement
check the predicted date the cap will be reached
note that the eligibility time point for the APC waiver is on
acceptance
of the article for the capped agreements
check the journal's usual time from submission to the post-peer review acceptance
consider whether it is feasible for you to meet the predicated cap deadline.
Check individual publisher author guidelines
During the publishing process you must:
Be the corresponding author
Use your AUT email (for submission and the duration of the publishing process)
Select AUT as your institutional affiliation
Select the Open Access publication option
Select which
Creative Commons License
you want to be applied to your article
Hybrid and Fully Open Journals
Hybrid journals
Sometimes described as ‘Authors choice’
Some articles in the journal require a subscription to read and some articles are open access
Require APC payment to publish OA - this is waived under the R&P Agreement
Fully open access journals
Sometimes described as 'Gold OA'
All articles in the journal are open access
Most require an APC payment to publish OA - this is waived under the Open Access Agreement if it includes fully open journals.
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