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.
The article cap for open access publishing has been exhausted. No further open access publishing will be possible until the cap resets in 2024.
This agreement commenced in January 2022.
The 2023 cap on this agreement is 3,359 articles.
Read more about this agreement from Springer Nature.
This page was last updated on 7 November 2023.
All 47 Australian and New Zealand universities that are Members of CAUL are participating in this agreement, in addition to a number of institutes:
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 1,976 titles with no transactional APCs. This includes most titles across Springer Nature imprints including Springer, Palgrave, ADIS, and Academic Journals on Nature.com. Please note: Nature titles are not included.
View the full list of Springer Nature titles. Includes annotations for excluded titles.
It includes high impact titles such as
The list also includes journals for the following Australian and New Zealand Societies:
Journal | Society |
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Acoustics Australia | Australian Acoustical Society |
Sleep and Breathing | Australasian Academy of Dental Sleep Medicine |
Physical and Engineering Sciences in Medicine | Australasian College of Physical Scientists |
Australasian Plant Pathology | Australasian Plant Pathology Society |
Journal of Religious Education | Australian Catholic University |
Curriculum Perspectives | Australian Curriculum Studies Association |
Korea-Australia Rheology Journal | Australian Society of Rheology |
Wood Science and Technology | International Academy of Wood Science |
Social Justice Research | International Society for Justice Research |
Food Security | International Society for Plant Pathology |
Journal of Bioethical Inquiry | Journal of Bioethical Inquiry Pty Ltd |
Mathematics Education Research Journal | Mathematics Education Research Group |
Monash Bioethics Review | Monash University |
New Zealand Journal of Educational Studies | New Zealand Association for Research in Research in Education |
Journal of Outdoor and Environmental Education | Outdoor Education Australia |
Journal of the Australian Ceramic Society | The Australian Ceramic Society |
Biophysical Reviews | The International Union of Pure and Applied Physics |
Archaeologies | World Archaeological Congress |
Included titles with high Australian and New Zealand authorship include:
Open access publishing covered under this Read & Publish agreement includes the following article types:
Authors who wish to make excluded article types openly available may choose to:
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 agreement.
Other charges (including page and colour charges) will vary by imprint and may depend on whether Springer Nature owns the journal or it is a society owned journal. These charges may not be covered under the agreement. Authors will be notified about options regarding colour and page charges through their communications with journal editors.
Page charges for Springer Nature owned journals will be waived.
Please note: For articles to be published open access under the terms of this agreement, corresponding authors must
- select a participating institution as their affiliation in the publisher system
- 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 apply.
Articles from authors at participating institutions may be published under the author's choice of the following licences:
The Creative Commons licenses allow reuse (some with conditions) while protecting the authors' rights of acknowledgment as authors. Authors retain copyright.
Researchers who require a CC-BY-NC-ND licence should contact the editors for the relevant journal. Please note the only option provided for ADIS titles is CC-BY-NC. Researchers who require other CC-BY licence types should contact the editors for the relevant journal.
Please see this informative video for a walkthrough of the article submission process:
Authors will be identified as eligible for open access publishing by their
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 for Springer, ADIS, Palgrave and Academic Journals on Nature.com collections subscribed to in 2021 will continue for 2022. Check with your Content Coordinator if you are not sure what packages your library subscribes to.
Through this agreement, the version of record will be available under a CC-BY licence fully open access immediately upon publication. Institutions wishing to re-host the version of record in an institutional repository are free to do so.