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Open Access Publishing Agreements (Read & Publish): Home

This guide explains open access publishing agreements provided for UC researchers by the Library.

Publish your work open access with lower or no fees

Our publishing agreements allow UC researchers, who are the corresponding authors, to publish open access articles with the article processing charge already paid by the Library as part of journal subscription fees.

Full 2025 CAUL journal title list - select Institution: University of Canberra and use search or filter option on right side

We have agreements with the following publishers - see the publisher page for details:

UC authors can also access discounts on Article Processing Charges with Elsevier, MDPI, Sage, and Taylor & Francis, and Wiley and Hindawi.

Creative Commons Licenses

What is a CC licence?

The licences allow users to reuse, remix and share the content legally.

Offering your work under a Creative Commons licence does not mean giving up your copyright. It means permitting users to make use of your material in various ways, but with certain conditions.

There are six standardised CC licences- listed from most to least permissive here:

  •   CC BY: This license allows reusers to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the material in any medium or format,   so long as attribution is given to the creator. The license allows for commercial use.

    • CC BY includes the following elements:
      BY  – Credit must be given to the creator

  •    CC BY-SA: This license allows reusers to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the material in any medium or format, so long as attribution is given to the creator. The license allows for commercial use. If you remix, adapt, or build upon the material, you must license the modified material under identical terms.

    • CC BY-SA includes the following elements:
      BY  – Credit must be given to the creator
      SA  – Adaptations must be shared under the same terms

  •    CC BY-NC: This license allows reusers to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the material in any medium or format for noncommercial purposes only, and only so long as attribution is given to the creator. 

    • It includes the following elements:
      BY  – Credit must be given to the creator
      NC  – Only noncommercial uses of the work are permitted

  •    CC BY-NC-SA: This license allows reusers to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the material in any medium or format for noncommercial purposes only, and only so long as attribution is given to the creator. If you remix, adapt, or build upon the material, you must license the modified material under identical terms. 

    • CC BY-NC-SA includes the following elements:
      BY  – Credit must be given to the creator
      NC  – Only noncommercial uses of the work are permitted
      SA  – Adaptations must be shared under the same terms

  •    CC BY-ND: This license allows reusers to copy and distribute the material in any medium or format in unadapted form only, and only so long as attribution is given to the creator. The license allows for commercial use. 

    • CC BY-ND includes the following elements:
      BY  – Credit must be given to the creator
      ND  – No derivatives or adaptations of the work are permitted

  •    CC BY-NC-ND: This license allows reusers to copy and distribute the material in any medium or format in unadapted form only, for noncommercial purposes only, and only so long as attribution is given to the creator. 

    • CC BY-NC-ND includes the following elements:
      BY  – Credit must be given to the creator
      NC  – Only noncommercial uses of the work are permitted
      ND  – No derivatives or adaptations of the work are permitted

  • The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication 

       CC0 (aka CC Zero) is a public dedication tool, which allows creators to give up their copyright and put their works into the worldwide public domain. CC0 allows reusers to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the material in any medium or format, with no conditions.

Current and previous versions of licences

The current suite of version 4.0 international licenses were released in 2013. All previous licence versions remain actively in use, but when licensing a new work, we recommend version 4.0.

 

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Glossary

  • APC - An article processing charge (APC), also known as a publication fee, is a fee which is sometimes charged to authors. Most commonly, it is involved in making a work available as open access (OA), in either a full OA journal or in a hybrid journal.
  • Open access - Open access (OA) is a set of principles and a range of practices through which research outputs are distributed online, free of access charges or other barriers
  • Embargo period - the embargo period for academic journals is a period of time set by the publisher where open access to the author’s accepted manuscript version of the article in a digital repository (e.g. UCs PURE Portal) is restricted until the embargo period expires. Typical embargo periods range from 6 to 24 months, though some publishers may require an embargo of up to 48 months
  • Ringgold ID -The Ringgold Identifier is a unique numerical identifier, its purpose is to disambiguate organizations. It is used globally by many types of organisations, with over 600k organisations registered. UC's Ringgold ID: 2234
  • Hybrid Journal - A hybrid open-access journal is a subscription journal in which some of the articles are open access. This status typically requires the payment of a publication fee (also called an article processing charge or APC) to the publisher in order to publish an article open access, in addition to the continued payment of subscriptions to access all other content. Strictly speaking, the term "hybrid open-access journal" is incorrect, possibly misleading, as using the same logic such journals could also be called "hybrid subscription journals". Simply using the term "hybrid access journal" is accurate

 

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