Publish your research open access through Read and Publish Agreements.
Read & Publish Agreements combine payment for reading and payment for author open access publishing into a single contract and invoice. They allow UC researchers, who are the corresponding authors, to publish open access articles with the article processing fees already paid by the Library as part of the journal subscription fees. UC Library, as part of the Council of Australian University Librarians (CAUL) Consortium, has Read & Publish Agreements with seven publishers:
CAUL Read & Publish Agreements Information Sheet: What you need to know / Key information for researchers
In addition to the Read & Publish agreements, the Library has negotiated a discount for UC authors on Article Processing Charges with MDPI Publishing and with Elsevier.
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.
References
Creative Commons website: https://creativecommons.org/about/cclicenses/
Creative Commons Australia website: https://creativecommons.org.au/learn/licences/#:~:text=What%20is%20a%20CC%20licence,and%20share%20the%20content%20legally.
Creative Commons license chooser beta: https://chooser-beta.creativecommons.org/
CAUL Read and Publish Agreements: Springer Nature: https://caul.libguides.com/read-and-publish/springer-nature
Springer Nature Open Access for Australia and New Zealand: Information for authors: https://www.springernature.com/gp/open-research/institutional-agreements/oaforanz
CAUL Read & Publish Agreements: Wiley: https://caul.libguides.com/read-and-publish/wiley
Wiley Open access agreement for authors at eligible Australia and New Zealand institutions: https://authorservices.wiley.com/author-resources/Journal-Authors/open-access/affiliation-policies-payments/caul-agreement.html
CSIRO Publishing, Read & Publish website: https://www.publish.csiro.au/journals/openaccess/ReadandPublish#1
CAUL Read & Publish Agreement: CSIRO website: https://caul.libguides.com/read-and-publish/csiro-publishing
Wikipedia website: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embargo_(academic_publishing)
Copyright
Read & Publish Agreements Negotiated by CAUL by Council of Australians University Librarians is licensed under CC BY 4.0
Except where otherwise noted, content on the Creative Commons website is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. Icons by The Noun Project.
Wikipedia is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0
This Guide was created by Terri Landford and is made available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license