The Read & Publish Agreements Negotiated by CAUL guide is the source of truth for current Read & Publish (R&P) agreements between publishers and Council of Australian University Libraries (CAUL).
Attention Researchers:
All agreements have renewed for 2025. Caps reset on 1st January 2025. Some journals and/or conditions may have changed.
The 2025 Journal list is now available, [Geological Society of London titles still pending].
Read & Publish agreements provide authors with the opportunity to publish OA immediately upon acceptance, free from any transactional Article Processing Charges (APCs). These arrangements have also been called “transformative agreements”.
Most Read & Publish agreements negotiated between Australian Universities and traditional publishers are being managed by the Council of Australian University Librarians (CAUL). A a few are being managed directly by University of Tasmania Library. Agreements cover the cost of author APCs for participating institutions.
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The Article Processing Charges are covered under the terms of the agreements. From one publisher to another, agreements can vary quite considerably: some have quotas (Caps) on the number of waived APCs, some include all journals and others include a limited range of journals or article types, and some require Creative Commons licences (e.g. CC-BY) etc.
Reference to the CAUL Read & Publish Agreements guide is essential for keeping track of Read & Publish deals and includes the consolidated journal title list for all agreements.
Things to note: As part of your planning, check whether the journal is a hybrid journal or a fully gold journal. Why? This may be important when an agreement cap has been reached.
Contact: librarians@utas.edu.au
The 2025 list of journals is available on the CAUL guide. Be sure to filter to University of Tasmania before searching for a journal title. You can also search by FOR Code. CAUL Open Access Agreements- 2025 Title list.
Most deals cover the common article types, such as Research articles and Review articles, however not all article types are eligible. For example, some publishers do not include editorials, opinion or correspondence as part of their CAUL deals. Publishers categorise article types differently. Read the journal website and cross-check details within the publisher links on the CAUL guide to make sure your defined article type is included.
Find out more under each publisher agreement listed on the CAUL guide.CAUL guide.
Before deciding to submit a manuscript, authors should check the status of any caps or limits. Authors can keep an eye on the current cap usage and predicted expiry date under each publisher agreement listed on the CAUL guide. CAUL guide .
UTAS participates in 15 Agreements. Six of these agreements have annual caps on the total article approvals for waived APCs- (AIP Publishing, Elsevier, OUP, Springer, Taylor & Francis, and Wiley). The caps reset from 1st January.
CAUL Read and Publish Agreements only waive the transactional Article Processing Charge (APCs) for eligible journals. Other charges administered by the journals are outside the agreements, and are not covered.
For example although APCs may be included in the waiver, other charges (such as page charges, colour page charges), are not included in the CAUL deals. Authors should plan to pay any other charges from their own funding sources within their College or institutes.
In general, the submission process for articles in journals included in Read & Publish agreements will look something like this:
