Read and Publish Agreements

Read and publish agreements are available to UQ academics, sessional staff and students, adjuncts, UQ honorary, and academic title holders.

Find a journal with an agreement

Browse agreements on this page or use the Journal search (UQ login required) tool in UQ eSpace. Filter titles by Open Access:

• published version for pre-paid or discounted APCs or Open Access with paid APCs 
• accepted version for Open Access via UQ eSpace with an embargo period.

Check the Information for authors section for each publisher for guidance on how to publish your paper as open access. Refer to your specific journal to see if any conditions apply to the agreement.

Review the full Open Access publishing workflow or read about types of open access.

Use your UQ affiliation when submitting

The corresponding author must be from UQ and have the correct affiliation when publishing. Use:

• your UQ email address  
• The University of Queensland as the institution's name.

Select CAUL (Council of Australian University Librarians) Agreement, Transformative Agreement, R&P Agreement, or similar in the publisher submission system.

Multiple affiliations

List UQ as your affiliation by using your UQ email address in the submission system to take advantage of pre-paid or discounted APCs. This includes when UQ may not be your primary affiliation or the only affiliation in the manuscript.

See the UQ Authorship Procedure for further information.

Select a Creative Commons licence

Your Open Access article will be published under a Creative Commons Licence. The licence specifies how the work can be reused. 

The publisher will specify the licences available to you in the Information for Authors section on the Publisher Agreement Information page or as part of the submission workflow.

See Choosing a licence to understand the licence features or use the interactive Licence Chooser tool.

More about Copyright and Creative Commons