Open Access Publishing Agreements (Read & Publish): Elsevier

UC's agreement include most of Elsevier's hybrid journals which are in our subscription packages. See the full title list for details - this is dynamic and will change throughout the year:

Full title list - select institution: University of Canberra and use search or filter option on right 

NOTE: Some titles not include in the agreement offer a 15% discount on open access article processing charges (APCs). There is no limit to the number of articles published with this discount. Please check the title list to see which journals offer a discount.

The Elsevier Journal Finder also shows which journals are included in UC's agreement:

1. Click on "check if you're eligible" and enter University of Canberra as your affiliation
2. Search for journals
3. Click on View Details under the journal information. If a journal is included in the agreement, you will see this text: "Your Institution may pay 100% of the Article Publishing Charge (APC) for corresponding authors who publish open access."

These article types qualify for the Read and Publish agreement:

• Full Length Articles
• Review Articles
• Case Reports
• Practice Guidelines
• Replication Study

Elsevier has not specified a limit on article types that qualify for the 15% discount only.

• The corresponding author must be from one of the institutions participating in the agreement.
• Corresponding author must use their institutional email address.
• Your article must be accepted from 1/01/2025 to be eligible to be published open access under the terms of the agreement.
• This agreement provides for 13,689 articles across all participating institutions to be published open access with no transactional APCs in 2025.
• Elsevier charges additional fees for page and/or colour fees. Authors should always check each journal’s submission guidelines to ensure that they will not be subject to any other fees or charges.

Articles from authors at participating institutions may be published under the authors' choice of either

• CC-BY
• CC-BY-NC
• CC-BY-NC-ND

Some or all exclusive rights are assigned to the publisher - please see Elsevier's Open Access License policies.

For more information on Creative Commons licenses see the home page of this guide.

• Follow the publisher's usual article submission process via https://www.elsevier.com/authors/submit-your-paper
• On acceptance of the article, the publisher will ask the corresponding author to make their publishing choices and complete a form (publishing agreement).
• The corresponding author selects open access and confirms the licence type (e.g. CC-BY).
• The APC is automatically waived for authors who have declared their affiliation to a participating CAUL institution during the publishing workflow.
• In the case of journals eligible for a discount only - the discounted open access publishing option will be provided during the submission process, based on the corresponding author's affiliation.

• Elsevier Journal Finder -  Enter title and abstract of your paper to easily find journals that could be best suited for publishing. JournalFinder uses smart search technology and field-of-research specific vocabularies to match your paper to scientific journals. Click on View Details on each journal - if a journal has the following text, it is part of the agreement: 
  Your Institution may pay 100% of the Article Publishing Charge (APC) for corresponding authors who publish open access.
• Read & Publish agreements negotiated by CAUL - details of the Elsevier agreement
• Agreement between CAUL Consortium and Elsevier - Elsevier's information page