Read & Publish Agreements Negotiated by CAUL

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 965 articles (including 29 articles rolled over from 2022).

Read more about this agreement from OUP.

This page was last updated on 29 September 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:

• high impact titles such as the Journal of Travel Medicine, European Heart Journal, FEMS Microbiology Reviews, and Quarterly Journal of Economics.
• titles with high Australian and New Zealand authorship, such as the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Clinical Infectious Diseases and the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, amongst many others.

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:

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

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.

• For 2023 this agreement provides for an allowance of 932 articles* by authors from institutions participating in the agreement to be published open access in 2023 with no transactional APCs. 
• The allowance is a collective pool for all participating CAUL Member institutions.
• Once the allowance is used, authors of any additional articles accepted in 2023, may choose to publish articles as "closed access" or to pay an APC for the article to be published open access.

* 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.

• 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.
• The vast majority of OUP journals (and all of OUP-owned journals) either do not charge page charges, or waive those charges for Open Access publishing.  However, a small number of Society-owned journals still choose to keep page charges in place even for OA publishing.  OUP continues to work with its societies to move them away from this practice (and have been steadily reducing the number that do so over the last few years) but ultimately it is a society decision

• American Entomologist
• Annals of the Entomological Society of America
• American Journal Of Epidemiology
• Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Biochemistry
• BioScience
• Cerebral Cortex
• Clinical Infectious Diseases
• Endocrinology
• Environmental Entomology
• Genetics
• Glycobiology
• The Journal of Infectious Diseases
• Insect Systematics and Diversity
• Journal of Animal Science
• Journal of Crustacean Biology
• The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism
• Journal of Economic Entomology
• Journal of Mammalogy
• Journal of Medical Entomology
• Journal of Neuropathology and Experimental Neurology
• Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation
• Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan
• Systematic Biology

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

• CC-BY
• CC-BY-NC

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.

1. Follow the publisher's usual article submission process via the journal’s homepage.
2. On acceptance of the article, the publisher will ask the corresponding author to complete a form (publishing agreement).
3. 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 with no APCs.
4. 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.
5. Check the ‘Refer Charge?’ box next to the Open Access charge, and then click ‘Refer Charges’ at the bottom of the page.

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.

• The allowance is allocated to the CAUL Consortium as a whole, not to individual institutions.
• CAUL National Office will approve articles for publication under the agreement. Institutions will only need to intervene in instances where further information is needed to ascertain if the article and/or author is eligible. 
• It is expected that the threshold of included articles will be reached later in 2023.
• Once the threshold of included articles is reached, authors of any additional articles accepted in 2023 may choose to publish articles as "closed access" or to pay an APC for the article to be published open access.
• The allowance applies to articles accepted in the subscription year and resets at the beginning of the next year. If the allowance is exceeded in 2023, open access publishing without transactional APCs will recommence in January 2024 under the Read & Publish agreement for 2024.
• As the year progresses, information about when the threshold of included articles is expected to be reached will be posted to this guide. Content Coordinators will also be updated on a regular basis.

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.

• OUP provides regular publishing reports with article level information.
• Live reporting is available to CAUL via the account dashboard.

Please direct any queries regarding article acceptance or OA publishing under this agreement to prepayments@oup.com.