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Please note new agreements have been reached with Elsevier, Springer Nature, Taylor and Francis, and Wiley.
Information on this page will be updated through January and February 2026. Please contact us for further information.
Publish your research open access through Read and Publish Agreements.
Read and Publish Agreements, or Transformative Agreements, are aimed at making more of our research open access. As part of these agreements, ACU Library pays for the subscription to access or read journal articles, while at the same time ensuring ACU researchers can publish within selected journals as open access.
These Read and Publish Agreements will allow ACU-affiliated researchers who are the corresponding authors to publish articles with the article processing charge paid for as part of the subscription.
When submitting your manuscript you will need to:
When your article has been peer reviewed and accepted, it will be published as open access. Authors will be able to select the Creative Commons licence once their article has been accepted.
Wiley and Springer-Nature now offer an unlimited number of articles which can be published as well as a cap for fully open access journals, which permit a limited number of articles to be published per year.
This cap is a collective pool for all participating institutions within this Australia-wide agreement. The allowance will be managed by CAUL (Council of Australasian University Librarians) as the consortia lead, which will accept articles on a first-come, first-served basis.
Once the limit is reached, authors of these articles will need to pay an article processing charge for the article to be published open access.
Contact the library for information about the available journal titles and selection of journals.
Choose "Australian Catholic University" from the Select your institution drop-down menu.
You can also filter by agreement, publisher, journal type or use the search button to find specific journals.
Table source: CAUL Open Access Agreements 2026 Title List
Agreements have been reached with the following publishers (agreements are reset each year on January 1):
Use the link under each publisher below to view the filtered list of journal titles covered for ACU authors.
Alternatively, view the consolidated alphabetical title list for all agreements by CAUL.
This is an uncapped agreement, allowing for ACU authors to publish in 76 journals, both hybrid and fully open access.
Articles published from 1 January 2026 are eligible to be published open access under this agreement.
View the full list of ACM titles
The following article types are eligible for open access under this agreement:
ACU authors who are responsible corresponding authors must use their ACU email address when submitting an article for publication.
The agreement is uncapped and covers 88 journals.
View the full list of APA titles
Authors can publish the following article types including:
Corresponding authors must be affiliated with ACU and must use their institutional address when submitting an article for publication.
The article must be accepted after 1 January 2026 and the article must be an original peer-reviewed research or review article.
This agreement covers 109 journals in the Brill Online Journal Collection, which includes both Gold Open Access as well as hybrid journals.
Articles published from 1 January 2026 are eligible to be published open access under this agreement.
View the full list of Brill titles
Included titles varies depending on an institution's subscribed collection. Authors should confirm available titles by contacting the library.
Authors can publish an uncapped number of accepted:
The eligible author is the corresponding author and must use their institutional email address when submitting their manuscript, either directly to the journal of their choice or via the editorial manager system.
More information available at Brill Transformative Agreements.
This agreement covers 424 journals, which include Gold Open Access and hybrid journals.
View the full list of Cambridge University Press titles
Authors can publish an uncapped number of article types including:
As a participating institution, ACU authors may publish immediately to open access on the publisher’s platform once the article has been accepted, with no Article Processing Charges.
More information available at Cambridge University Press Publishing Open Access.
This agreement covers 1,873 journals.
The Elsevier agreement enables ACU authors to publish accepted articles into selected hybrid ejournals from Elsevier without any APCs.
Fully Open Access (Gold) journals are excluded from the agreement, but authors are eligible for a 15% discount on Gold journal APCs.
Titles now include Cell journals and The Lancet.
View the full list of Elsevier titles
The following article types are included in this agreement:
Eligible articles that have an acceptance date during the term of the agreement may be published as open access.
MA Healthcare covers 29 journals in the nursing, paramedicine and midwifery fields.
View the full list of MA Healthcare titles
Authors can publish an uncapped number of articles of all types.
Eligible articles that have an acceptance date during the term of this agreement are eligible to be published open access.
The following article types are eligible for open access under this agreement:
Authors will be identified as eligible by their affiliated institution and their ACU email address.
This is an uncapped agreement. Articles which have been accepted from 1 January 2026 in the listed hybrid journals, are eligible to be published open access under this agreement.
For articles published in Gold Open Access journals, a 10% discount applies.
This agreement covers 375 journals in which authors may publish.
View the full list of Oxford University Press titles
Authors can publish the following types as open access:
More information available at OUP Read and publish agreements – Australia and New Zealand Institutions (CAUL affiliated).
Articles accepted from 1 January are eligible under the agreement.
This agreement provides for uncapped open access publishing across 1,002 hybrid journals.
Articles accepted after 1 January 2026 will be considered eligible to be published open access under this agreement.
View the full list of SAGE titles
Articles in Gold Open Access journals are eligible for a 20% discount on the list rate of Article Processing Charges.
The following articles are included in the agreement:
More information about the process is available on the Sage website at Instructions for Hybrid Open Access (Sage Choice) Authors.
Articles accepted from 1 January are eligible under the agreement.
This agreement covers 2,234 journals.
This agreement covers unlimited open access publishing in most of Springer Nature’s hybrid journals, and many Gold Open Access journals. Please note that Nature and BioMed Central journals are not included.
Articles submitted to BioMedCentral are entitled to a 15% discount on the Article Processing Charges, payable by the author.
View the full list of Springer Nature titles
Authors can publish the following types of articles as open access:
Authors will be required to self-identify and be authenticated via their ACU email.
Articles accepted from 1 January are eligible under the agreement.
This agreement covers 2,546 journals and allows ACU eligible authors to publish open access across hybrid journals with no APCs.
This agreement is now uncapped and also includes the use of licensed content in connection with AI technologies for non commercial research and educational purposes.
View the full list of Taylor and Francis titles
The following article types are eligible for open access under this agreement:
Eligible authors must be a corresponding author and must use their ACU email address when submitting an article for publication.
Articles accepted from 1 January are eligible under the agreement. This agreement covers 1,868 journals.
This agreement allows:
View the full list of Wiley titles
Authors can publish the following types of articles as open access:
Authors will need to check availability upon submission. Institution and email address domain will be assessed once your manuscript is accepted.