Contact your institution's library staff for further information on publishing under the CAUL-negotiated R&P agreements.
Contact the designated Content Coordinator at your library if you wish to know more about this agreement.
This agreement allows for read access to 376 Oxford University Press titles and allows authors from participating institutions to publish open access in 361 titles with no transactional article processing charges (APCs).
The article cap in 2023 is 932 articles.
Read more about this agreement from OUP.
This page was last updated on 3 May 2023.
Authors who do not see their institution listed above should contact library staff to enquire further.
This agreement allows authors from participating institutions to publish open access in 361 titles with no transactional APCs. This includes:
View the full list of OUP titles. Includes annotations for excluded titles.
Open access publishing covered under this Read & Publish agreement includes the following article types:
Authors may publish other types of articles as “closed access” or pay an article processing charge (if applicable) to make the article open access.
Eligible articles that have an acceptance date during the term of this agreement (2022-2024) are eligible to be published open access under the terms of the R&P agreement.
* The number of included articles for 2023 is calculated at 92% of the total number of articles from Australian authors at participating institutions published in OUP titles in 2020.
Please note: For articles to be published open access under the terms of this agreement, corresponding authors must
- be publishing a research article, review article, brief report or case report, which is received into OUP production on or after 1 January 2022
- indicate a participating institution as their primary affiliation when submitting the article
- use an institutional email address for a participating institution (see Participating institutions list above) when submitting their article.
Corresponding authors should not use personal email addresses (e.g. Hotmail, Gmail). Doing so may result in delayed approval of the article or the article may not be approved to be published open access under the terms of the agreement.
Corresponding authors from institutions listed under 'Participating institutions' above may publish immediately to open access on the publisher's platform once the article has been accepted, with no transactional APCs. (Page and colour charges may still apply.)
Please see OUP's webpage on Read and Publish agreements – participating journals and institutions for more details.
Articles from authors at participating institutions may be published under the authors' choice of either
The Creative Commons licenses allow reuse (some with conditions) while protecting the authors' rights of acknowledgment as authors. Authors retain copyright.
Authors: Please note the following important information, which clarifies the process requesting your article to be published open access.
Further assistance:
A step-by-step guide to the referral process can be found here. Please direct any queries regarding use of the funds in the Open Access Account to prepayments@oup.com or consult your librarian.
Corresponding authors must indicate a participating institution as their primary affiliation in order to be eligible.
Corresponding authors must use their institutional email address when submitting an article for publication in order for the publication to be approved to be published open access with no transactional APCs.
Corresponding authors should not use personal email addresses (e.g. Hotmail, Gmail). Doing so may result in delayed approval of the article or the article may not be approved to be published open access under the terms of the agreement.
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 entitlements to the collections/package subscribed to in 2021 will be maintained for 2022. Check with your Content Coordinator if you are not sure what packages your library subscribes to.
Authors may deposit articles in institutional repositories. The embargo period varies by journal. View the publisher's web page Accepted manuscript embargo periods for more information.