Read & Publish Agreements Negotiated by CAUL

This is agreement commenced in January 2022.

Cambridge University Press currently publishes more than 400 peer-reviewed academic journals covering subjects across the humanities, social sciences and science, technology and medicine.

The agreement allows authors from participating institutions to publish into the majority Cambridge University Press journals without the need of any transactional article processing charge or payment (APC). Further information on this agreement is available from Cambridge University Press.

Read more about this agreement on CUP's CAUL agreement site.

This page was last updated on 27 July 2023.

Authors who do not see their institution listed above should contact library staff to enquire further.

The agreement allows for publishing in 398 titles. Titles include:

• High impact titles such as Acta Numerica, British Journal of Psychiatry, and Political Analysis
• Titles with high Australian and New Zealand authorship including the Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Public Health Nutrition, and Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, amongst many others.

View the full title list

The agreement includes the following journals from Australian and New Zealand Societies:

Open access publishing covered under this Read & Publish agreement includes the following article types:

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

Article types excluded from this agreement include

Authors who wish to make excluded article types openly available may choose to:

• Publish “closed access” and deposit the Author’s Accepted Manuscript in their institutional repository – view the publisher’s Green Open Access Policy for Journals for information on embargoes.
• Pay an APC (if applicable) to publish the article open access.

Eligible articles that have an acceptance date during the term of this agreement are eligible to be published open access under the terms of the R&P agreement. In the case of journals departing the Cambridge Collection, the accepted article must be published by CUP (ie before the journal moves to another publisher) in order to be eligible under this agreement.

There is no limit on the number of articles by participating institutions allowed to be published as part of this agreement.

Page and colour charges are not included in the R&P agreement, and only apply to print journals. Journals that have page charges (for print) are:

• Radiocarbon (RDC)
• Weed Technology (WET)
• Invasive Plant Science and Management (INP)
• Weed Science (WSC).

Corresponding authors from institutions listed under 'Participating institutions' may publish immediately to open access on the publisher's platform once the article has been accepted, with no transactional APCs.

Articles from authors at participating institutions may be published under the author's choice of the following licences:

• CC-BY
• CC-BY-SA
• CC-BY-ND
• CC-BY-NC
• CC-BY-NC-SA
• CC-BY-NC-ND.

Further information about the licences is available on the publisher's website.

The Creative Commons licenses allow reuse (some with conditions) while protecting the authors' rights of acknowledgment as authors. Authors retain copyright.

1. Follow CUP’s usual article submission process via the journal’s homepage on Cambridge Core.
2. On acceptance of the article, CUP will ask the corresponding author to complete a form (publishing agreement).
3. The corresponding author selects Gold Open Access and confirms the licence type (i.e. CC-BY).
4. Rightslink works on the publisher's behalf to manage the APCs. When the  submitting author is from an eligible CAUL institution, the APC will be automatically waived.

Also see the Step by Step Guide to Publishing OA in Cambridge Journals.

In all correspondence with the publisher and Rightslink, authors must use their:

• Institutional postal address
• Institutional email address
• ORCID.

The license is available for download from ConsortiaManager. Library staff should contact the designated Content Coordinator at their institution regarding any license enquiries.

Read access is determined by the collection each institution subscribes to, either the STM or Full Package.

• The agreement provides open access publishing in the journals listed under 'Included titles' by corresponding authors of institutions listed under 'Participating institutions'. 
• There is no limit on the number of articles that can be published under the agreement.
• There are no transactional APCs or other service charges for papers submitted by corresponding authors from participating institutions.
• Preprints or submitted manuscripts under review (SMUR) can be archived at any time. Author accepted manuscripts can be archived to institutional repositories at any time. For further information, view the Green Open Access Policy for Journals.
• Article metadata is also sent to several other repositories. For details view the "About the Journal" pages for each journal on the publisher's website.

The publisher provides publishing reports with article-level information quarterly.