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Open Access Publishing Agreements

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.