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Read & Publish Agreements and Publisher Discounts: Oxford

This guide explains Read & Publish open access agreements provided for UC researchers by the Library. These agreements remove Article Processing Fees payable by authors for open access publishing to included publishers and journals.

Oxford University Press Read & Publish Agreement

The University of Canberra has a Read & Publish Agreement with Oxford University Press for 2024

Journals included in this agreement

This agreement allows for publishing open access in 361 Oxford University Press hybrid journals:

Full title list with R&P Agreement inclusion status (airtable)

Journals that have "flipped" to fully OA in 2024 are still covered by the agreement.

Eligible article types

These article types qualify for the R&P agreement:

  • Research articles
  • Review articles
  • Case reports
  • Brief reports.

Limitations of the agreement

  • Your article must be accepted for publication after 1 January 2024 
  • For 2024, this agreement provides for 965 articles across all participating institutions to be published open access with no transactional APCs. The current number of published articles can be found on the CAUL information page.
  • Articles published in a Supplement are not eligible to use Read and Publish funds to cover the open access charge.
  • A small number of included journals have mandatory page charges that are not covered by the agreement.
  • Colour printing is optional and colour printing charges are not included under the terms of the agreement. Figures can appear in colour online and black-and-white in print at no charge. These charges only apply to journals with print issues.
  • When submitting articles for publication, please check individual journal home pages for up-to-date information on page and colour charges.

Creative Commons licences

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

  • CC-BY
  • CC-BY-NC
  • CC-BY-NC-ND

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

How to submit your article

  • Follow the publisher's usual article submission process via the journal’s homepage.
  • On acceptance of the article, the publisher will ask the corresponding author to complete a form (publishing agreement).
  • The corresponding author selects open access and confirms the licence type (e.g. CC-BY). Please note, you will be asked to confirm that you will pay the open access charge, however, the charge will be automatically waived if your article is assessed as eligible for publishing under the agreement.
  • Proceed to payment and select ‘Australia and New Zealand Institutions (CAUL affiliated)’ from the dropdown list of institutions beneath ‘Open Access Prepayment Account’ on the Article Charges page.
  • Check the ‘Refer Charge?’ box next to the Open Access charge, and then click ‘Refer Charges’ at the bottom of the page.