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Types of Open Access publishing agreements, memberships and discounts

The University Library has a range of agreements, memberships and discounts in place and is actively pursuing opportunities to fund open access initiatives, including: 

Remember, open access through publishers is only one of the pathways to Open Access research outputs. Read more about Repository-based open access and licensing to enable the open accessibility of your work.

Agreements that have reached 2025 caps
The Wiley, Springer and Taylor & Francis agreements have all reached their 2025 caps. For hybrid journals, the option to publish behind the paywall is available for articles accepted and/or processed after the cap is reached. Gold (fully open access journals) will require the APC to be paid by the authors.

Wiley hybrid: CAP REACHED on 18 September. No further APCs will be processed for Wiley hybrid journals under this agreement.
Wiley gold: CAP REACHED on 28 October. No further APCs will be processed for Wiley Gold open access journals under this agreement.
Springer: CAP REACHED on 9 October. No further APCs will be processed for Springer hybrid journals under this agreement.
Taylor & Francis: CAP REACHED on 26 October. No further APCs will be processed for T&F hybrid journals under this agreement.
 

 

Update on 2026 Agreements

As confirmed by CAUL on the 13 November 2025 (Joint-Media-Release-Landmark-new-open-access-agreement-struck-with-Taylor-Francis-negotiations-with-Elsevier-paused);

  • ANZ Universities have reached an in-principle agreement with Taylor & Francis for a new agreement commencing 1 January 2026. The agreement will provide open access publishing for UWA authors, without individual article processing charges and covering all hybrid and gold journals in the Taylor & Francis portfolio.
  • CAUL is continuing its negotiations with Wiley and Springer Nature and we hope to have an update on this before the end of the year.
  • Discussions between CAUL and Elsevier are paused as both parties were unable to reach agreement on terms at this time. UWA Library will provide more information on the implications of this pause in the coming days. 

How to take advantage of the agreements

UWA has a range of agreements available to UWA authors in 2025 which are listed below. Here's how to take advantage of these agreements:

  1. Agreement types and conditions:
    There are different types of agreements that entitle you to different benefits and each agreement has different conditions. Find the relevant publisher below and follow the links for full information and conditions of the agreement. Agreements cover publications that are accepted for publication in the relevant calendar year, unless a cap is reached before the end of the year. In almost all instances it is the date of acceptance that is important, not the date of submission. Please read all agreement conditions for the relevant publisher carefully before submitting your publication as they are all different. If in doubt, contact the library for clarification before submitting.
     
  2. Affiliation: 
    When submitting your article:
    1. use your UWA email address (ending in "@uwa.edu.au", "@research.uwa.edu.au" or "@student.uwa.edu.au"), and
    2. specify your University of Western Australia affiliation (byline). This also ensures your compliance with the Research Integrity Policy which requires authors at UWA to acknowledge the papers they publish were undertaken at UWA.
       
  3. Licensing: 
    Your Open Access article will be published under a Creative Common Licence. The licence specifies how the work can be reused. The publisher may have a set licence that all articles are published under, or you may have the option to choose which Creative Commons licence you wish to apply to your work based on the options provided by the publisher. When you have the option, the UWA Research Integrity Policy recommends publishing OA under the CC BY licence. This is the least restrictive licence and makes research outputs truly "open". For more information on Creative Commons licensing, see the Licencing page of this guide.

Publishers with OA agreements, memberships and discounts

Type of Agreement:

  • CAUL Read and Publish Agreement - This agreement allows UWA corresponding authors to publish open access in 23 hybrid AIP journals without incurring individual APC payments. See title list for journals covered.
  • Eligible article types: Research articles, Review articles

Number of Included Articles:

  • Capped agreement - shared publishing allowance of 342 articles by authors from participating institutions in 2025

Article Licence:

Included Titles:

  • See Title List - Included titles list "University of Western Australia" as an Eligible university and are visible when "University of Western Australia" is selected in the Institution filter.

More Information:

  • See CAUL agreement page
  • Articles with a 2024-2025 acceptance date are eligible to be published under this agreement.
  • Eligible article types: Research article, Review article

Type of Agreement

  • CAUL Read and Publish Agreement - This agreement allows UWA corresponding authors to publish open access in most hybrid APA journals without incurring individual APC payments.

Number of Included Articles

  • No limits on number of articles published.

Article Licence

  • Articles published with a CC BY licence.

Included Titles

  • See Title List - Included titles list "University of Western Australia" as an Eligible university and are visible when "University of Western Australia" is selected in the Institution filter.

Full Information and Author Journey

  • See CAUL agreement page.
  • Articles accepted in 2025 are eligible for this agreement
  • Page and colour charges may apply and will be the responsibility of the authors
  • Eligible article types: Research Article, Review Article, Brief Report

Type of Agreement:

  • CAUL Read and Publish Agreement - This agreement allows UWA corresponding authors to publish open access in all 35 ASME hybrid journals and the ASME Open Journal of Engineering without incurring individual APC payments.

Number of Included Articles:

  • No limit on the number of articles published

Article Licence:

  • Articles published with a CC BY licence

Included titles:

More Information:

  • See CAUL Agreement page
  • All peer reviewed research articles submitted in 2025 with a UWA corresponding author are eligible
  • ASME journals may charge other page and colour fees, and these are the responsibility of the author

Type of Agreement:

  • Subscribe to Open (S2O) - articles will be published open access in Annual Reviews journals free of individual cost to authors

Number of Included Articles:

  • No limit on number of articles published under this initiative in 2025

Article Licence:

  • Articles published with a CC BY licence

Included titles:

More Information:

  • See information on the Annual Reviews webpage
  • Articles with a 2024 or 2025 submission date are eligible to be published under this agreement

Type of Agreement

  • CAUL Read and Publish Agreement - This agreement allows UWA corresponding authors to publish open access in ACM journals without incurring individual APC payments

Number of Included Articles

  • No limits on number of articles published.

Article Licence

Included Titles

  • See Title List Included titles list "University of Western Australia" as an Eligible university and are visible when "University of Western Australia" is selected in the Institution filter.

Full Information and Author Journey

  • See CAUL ACM agreement page.
  • Articles accepted in 2024-2026 are eligible for this agreement.
  • Eligible article types: Research article, review article, short paper, survey, technical note, tutorial, interview, note

Type of Agreement:

  • Subscribe to Open (S2O) - articles will be published open access in Berghahn Open Anthro journals free of individual cost to authors

Number of Included Articles:

  • No limit on number of articles published under this initiative in 2024

Article Licence:

Included titles:

More Information:

  • See information on the Berghahn Open Anthro webpage
  • Articles with a 2024-2025 submission date are eligible to be published under this agreement

Type of Agreement:

  • CAUL Read and Publish Agreement - This agreement allows UWA corresponding authors to publish open access in Biochemical Society journals without incurring individual APC payments

Number of Included Articles:

  • No limit on number of articles published

Article Licence:

Included Titles:

  • Title List - All Biochemical Society journals are included in this agreement

Full Information and Author Journey:

  • See CAUL Agreement Page
  • Articles with a 2024-2025 acceptance date are eligible for this agreement
  • Eligible article types: All

Type of Agreement:

  • 15% APC Discount

Number of Included Articles:

  • No limit on the number of articles published

Article Licence:

  • Articles published with a CC BY licence

Included titles:

More Information:

  • All peer reviewed research articles accepted in 2024 or 2025 with a UWA corresponding author are eligible
  • UWA corresponding author will be identified based on their email address and affiliation as listed in the submitted article

Type of Agreement:

  • CAUL Read and Publish Agreement - This agreement allows UWA corresponding authors to publish open access in many CUP journals without incurring individual APC payments

Number of Included Articles:

  • No limit on number of articles published

Article Licence:

Included Titles:

  • Title List - Included titles list "University of Western Australia" as an Eligible university and are visible when "University of Western Australia" is selected in the Institution filter.

Full Information and Author Journey:

  • See CAUL Agreement page
  • Articles with a 2024-2025 acceptance date are eligible for this agreement
  • Eligible article types: Research articles, Review articles, Rapid communications, Brief reports, Case reports

Type of Agreement:

  • CAUL Read and Publish Agreement - This agreement allows UWA corresponding authors to publish open access in all Canadian Science Publishing journals without incurring individual APC payments

Number of Included Articles:

  • No limit on number of articles published

Article Licence:

  • Articles published with a CC BY licence

Included Titles:

Full Information and Author Journey:

  • See CAUL Agreement page
  • Articles with 2025-2027 submission dates are eligible for this agreement
  • Eligible article types: Article, Review, Communication, Note, Data paper, Comment, Invited review, Letter, Mini review, Research article, Science Applications Forum, Perspective, Editorial, Retrospective, Reply

Type of Agreement:

  • Institutional Membership Agreement - This agreement allows UWA corresponding authors to publish open access in Cogitatio Press journals without incurring individual APC payments

Number of Included Articles:

  • No limit on number of articles published

Article Licence:

  • Articles published with a CC BY licence

Included Titles and More Information:

Type of Agreement:

  • CAUL Read and Publish Agreement - This agreement allows UWA corresponding authors to publish in all Company of Biologists journals without incurring individual APC payments

Number of Included Articles:

  • No limit on number of articles published

Article Licence:

  • Articles published with a CC BY licence

Included Titles:

  • Title List- Included titles list "University of Western Australia" as an Eligible university and are visible when "University of Western Australia" is selected in the Institution filter.

Full Information and Author Journey:

  • See CAUL agreement page
  • Agreement valid for articles accepted in 2024-2025
  • Eligible article types: Original research papers

Type of Agreement:

  • CAUL Read and Publish Agreement -This agreement allows UWA corresponding authors to publish open access in all CSIRO owned journals without incurring individual APC payments

Number of Included Articles:

  • No limit on number of articles published

Article Licence:

Included Titles:

  • Title List - Included titles list "University of Western Australia" as an Eligible university and are visible when "University of Western Australia" is selected in the Institution filter.

Full Information and Author Journey:

  • See CAUL agreement page
  • Articles accepted in 2023-2025 are eligible for this agreement
  • Eligible article types: Research articles

Type of Agreement:

  • CAUL Read and Publish Agreement - This agreement allows UWA corresponding authors to publish open access in most of Elsevier's hybrid journals without incurring individual APC payments

Number of Included Articles:

  • Capped agreement - shared publishing allowance of 12,584 articles across all institutions in 2025

Article Licence:

Included Titles:

  • Unfortunately Elsevier are no longer providing a definitive list of journals that have the APC 100% covered under the CAUL agreement and advise that the final APC cost will only be visible to authors during the submission process.

    Please be aware that if the APC is not fully covered for a hybrid (subscription) journal, in most cases you will be able to publish the article as subscription-only and deposit the accepted manuscript in the UWA Research Repository for open access availability with a 12-18 month embargo. See Elsevier journal embargo periods.

Full Information and Author Journey:

Notes:

  • 15% discount on Open Access publishing in titles not in the Read and Publish agreement or once cap reached
  • Articles with a 2023-2025 acceptance date are eligible to be published under this agreement, provided the annual cap has not been reached by the date of acceptance
  • Eligible article types: Full length articles, Review articles, Case reports, Protocols, Short communications, Micro articles, Original software publications, Short surveys, Data, Practice guidelines, Replication studies, Video articles
  • Additional page and/or colour fees may apply and are the responsibility of the authors. Authors advised to check submission guidelines.

Type of Agreement:

  • CAUL Read and Publish Agreement - This Read and Publish agreement allows UWA corresponding authors to publish open access in all of The Geological Society hybrid journals without incurring individual APC payments.

Number of Included Articles:

  • No limit on number of articles published under this agreement in 2025

Article Licence:

  • Articles published with a CC BY licence

Included titles:

More Information:

  • See CAUL Agreement page
  • Articles with a 2024-2025 submission date are eligible to be published under this agreement
  • Eligible article types: All

Type of Agreement:

  • CAUL Read and Publish Agreement - This agreement allows UWA corresponding authors to publish open access in most of IoP's hybrid and gold journals without incurring individual APC payments

Number of Included Articles:

  • No limits on number of articles published

Article Licence:

Included Titles:

  • Title List - Included titles list "University of Western Australia" as an Eligible university and are visible when "University of Western Australia" is selected in the Institution filter.

Full Information and Author Journey:

Notes:

  • Articles with a 2024-2025 acceptance date are eligible to be published under this agreement
  • Eligible article types: Research articles, Special issue articles, Review articles, Letters

Type of Agreement:

  • CAUL Read and Publish Agreement -This agreement allows UWA corresponding authors to publish open access in 14 of IWA's hybrid and gold journals without incurring individual APC payments

Number of Included Articles:

  • No limits on number of articles published

Article Licence:

Included Titles:

  • Title List - Included titles list "University of Western Australia" as an Eligible university and are visible when "University of Western Australia" is selected in the Institution filter.

Full Information and Author Journey:

Notes:

  • Articles with a 2024-2025 acceptance date are eligible to be published under this agreement
  • Eligible article types: All

Type of Agreement:

  • CAUL Read and Publish Agreement - This agreement allows UWA corresponding authors to publish open access in all of John Benjamins' hybrid journals without incurring individual APC payments

Number of Included Articles:

  • No limits on number of articles published

Article Licence:

  • Articles published with a CC BY licence by default, other CC licences available on request.

Included Titles:

  • Title List - Included titles list "University of Western Australia" as an Eligible university and are visible when "University of Western Australia" is selected in the Institution filter.

Full Information and Author Journey:

Notes:

  • Articles with a 2024-2025 acceptance date are eligible to be published under this agreement
  • Eligible article types: Research articles, Review articles, Book review

Type of Agreement:

  • CAUL Read and Publish Agreement - This agreement allows UWA corresponding authors to publish open access in most Karger hybrid and OA journals without incurring individual APC payments

Number of Included Articles:

  • No limits on number of articles published

Article Licence:

Included Titles:

  • Title List - Included titles list "University of Western Australia" as an Eligible university and are visible when "University of Western Australia" is selected in the Institution filter.

Full Information and Author Journey:

Notes:

  • Articles with a 2024-2025 acceptance date are eligible to be published under this agreement
  • Eligible article types: Research article, Review article, Systematic review, Brief report, Commentary, Editorial, Letter, Method article, Case study

Type of Agreement:

  • 10% APC Discount

Number of Included Articles:

  • No limit on the number of articles published

Article Licence:

  • Articles published with a CC BY licence

Included titles:

More Information:

  • All articles submitted in 2024-2025 with a UWA corresponding author are eligible
  • UWA corresponding author will be identified based on their institutional email address and affiliation on the paper

Type of Agreement:

  • CAUL Read and Publish Agreement - This agreement allows UWA corresponding authors to publish open access in all of the Microbiology Society hybrid and gold journals without incurring individual APC payments

Number of Included Articles:

  • No limit on the number of articles published

Article Licence:

  • Articles published with a CC BY licence

Included titles:

  • Title List - Included titles list "University of Western Australia" as an Eligible university and are visible when "University of Western Australia" is selected in the Institution filter.

More Information:

  • See CAUL Agreement page
  • Articles with a 2024-2025 acceptance date are eligible to be published open access under this agreement
  • Eligible article types: All

Type of Agreement:

  • CAUL Read and Publish Agreement - This agreement allows UWA corresponding authors to publish open access in some OUP hybrid and gold journals without incurring individual APC payments.
  • UWA has also purchased the add-on Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) add-on meaning RAS journals are included in this agreement.

Number of Included Articles:

  • No limit on the number of articles published in 2025

Article Licence:

Included titles:

  • Title List - Included titles list "University of Western Australia" as an Eligible university and are visible when "University of Western Australia" is selected in the Institution filter.

More Information:

  • See CAUL Agreement page
  • 10% discount for fully open titles excluded from agreement
  • Articles with a 2024-2027 acceptance date are eligible to be published open access under this agreement
  • Eligible article types: Research article, Review article, Brief Report, Case Report

Type of Agreement:

  • CAUL Read and Publish Agreement - This agreement allows UWA corresponding authors to publish open access in all of The Royal Society's hybrid and gold journals without incurring individual APC payments

Number of Included Articles:

  • No limit on the number of articles published under this agreement

Article Licence:

  • Articles published with a CC BY licence

Included titles:

  • Title List - Included titles list "University of Western Australia" as an Eligible university and are visible when "University of Western Australia" is selected in the Institution filter.

More Information:

  • See CAUL Agreement page
  • Articles with a 2024-2025 acceptance date are eligible to be published open access under this agreement
  • Eligible article types: Original paper, Review, Brief Communication, Correction, Additions

Type of Agreement:

  • 15% APC Discount for articles published in hybrid journals

Article Licence:

Included titles:

  • All RSC journals that offer an open access option

Type of Agreement:

  • CAUL Read and Publish Agreement and APC Discount - This agreement allows UWA corresponding authors to publish open access in most of SAGE's hybrid journals without incurring individual APC payments

Number of Included Articles:

  • No limit on the number of articles published under this agreement

Article Licence:

Included titles:

  • Title List - Included titles list "University of Western Australia" as an 'Eligible' university. Gold OA titles with a 20% APC discount will have 'University of Western Australia' listed under institutions eligible for discounted APCs.

More Information:

  • See CAUL Agreement page
  • Articles with a 2023-2025 acceptance date are eligible to be published open access under this agreement
  • 20% discount on APCs for articles published in SAGE Gold Open Access journals not included in the Read and Publish agreement
  • Eligible article types: Original research paper, Review paper, Brief communication, Short report, Case report

Type of Agreement:

  • Publish Open Access at no cost through UWA's partnership with SCOAP3

Number of Included Articles:

  • No limit on the number of articles published

Article Licence:

  • Articles published with a variety of Creative Commons licences

Included titles:

More Information:

  • Articles accepted in 2024-2027 are eligible
  • An ORCID must be provided for the corresponding author(s).

Type of Agreement:

  • CAUL Read and Publish Agreement and APC Discount (Springer fully OA titles) - This Read and Publish agreement allows UWA corresponding authors to publish open access in most of Springer's hybrid journals without incurring individual APC payments Note: Springer 2025 hybrid cap exhausted on 9 October.
  • There is a separate 15% discount on APC charges for Springer titles that are fully Open Access.
  • Nature Publishing Group titles are not included in this agreement, but UWA offers a separate fund for corresponding authors of Nature articles (flagship journal only).

Number of Included Articles:

  • Read and Publish agreement is a capped agreement - shared publishing allowance of 3,511 articles by authors of participating CAUL institutions in 2025.

  • CAP REACHED on 9 October 2025. No further hybrid open access article approvals will be processed in 2025.

    Authors who have articles accepted by hybrid journals now have the option of publishing behind they paywall, or paying the APC out of their own funds..

  • No limit on Springer fully open access titles APC discounts.

Article Licence:

Included titles:

  • Read & Publish Title List - Included titles list "University of Western Australia" as an Eligible university. Nature journals are not included in this agreement.
  • UWA has an APC fund for publications in Nature (flagship journal only) with a UWA corresponding author. More information available on the Staff Intranet.
  • A 15% discount applies to all Springer fully open access journals

More Information:

Type of Agreement:

  • CAUL Read and Publish Agreement and APC Discount - This Read and Publish agreement allows UWA corresponding authors to publish open access in some T&F hybrid journals without incurring individual APC payments.
  • There is a separate discount on APC charges for some journal titles not covered as part of this agreement.

Number of Included Articles:

  • Capped agreement - shared publishing allowance of 3,877 articles by authors of participating CAUL institutions in 2025

  • CAP REACHED on 26 October 2025. No further hybrid open access article approvals will be processed in 2025. Authors who have articles accepted by hybrid journals now have the option of publishing behind they paywall, or paying the APC out of their own funds.
    • .

Article Licence:

Included titles:

  • Title List - Included titles list "University of Western Australia" as an Eligible university and are visible when "University of Western Australia" is selected in the Institution filter.
  • Some Taylor & Francis journal titles not included in the agreement may benefit from a 10% discount on APCs, check an individual journal's information to see if 'University of Western Australia' is listed as receiving a discount for the APC.

More Information:

  • See CAUL Agreement page
  • Articles with a 2024-2025 acceptance date are eligible to be published open access under this agreement, provided the annual cap has not been reached on the date of acceptance.
  • Some journals not included in the Read and Publish agreement may benefit from a 10% discount on APCs.
  • Eligible article types: Research article, Review article, Report, Short communication, Case report, Note, Original article, Guest editorial

Type of Agreement:

  • CAUL Read and Publish Agreement - This Read and Publish agreement allows UWA corresponding authors to publish open access in most Wiley hybrid and gold journals without incurring individual APC payments. Note: Wiley Hybrid 2025 cap exhausted on 18 September.

Number of Included Articles:

  • Capped agreement - shared publishing allowance of 5,348 articles in hybrid journals and 1,690 articles in fully OA journals by authors of participating CAUL institutions in 2025. All Wiley caps have now been reached for 2025 and no further articles will be processed under the agreement.
  • Wiley hybrid journals: CAP REACHED on 18 September 2025. No further hybrid open access article approvals will be processed in 2025. Authors who have articles accepted by hybrid journals now have the option of publishing behind they paywall, or paying the APC out of their own funds.
  • Wiley Gold (full open access) journals: CAP REACHED on 28 October 2025. Authors publishing in Gold journals: will need to cover the cost of the APC out of their own funds.

Article Licence:

Included titles:

  • Title List- Included titles list "University of Western Australia" as an Eligible university and are visible when "University of Western Australia" is selected in the Institution filter. Includes a selection of both fully OA and hybrid journals.

More Information:

  • See CAUL Agreement page
  • 10% discount on APCs for articles in participating journals once cap has been reached
  • Articles with a 2024-2025 acceptance date are eligible to be published under this agreement, provided the annual cap has not been reached by the time the article has been accepted, the publication agreement completed and processed through the CAUL approvals portal.
  • Eligible article types: Research article, Review Article, Case Study, Short communication, Commentary, Method & protocol, Technical note. See full list via link in CAUL agreement page.

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