Read and Publish agreements with Springer Nature, Taylor & Francis and Wiley are nearing or have reached their caps for 2025.
Read about how these caps affect UQ researchers and review your open access publishing options if your selected journal is affected.
Capped agreements for 2025
Cap exhaustion projected dates last updated on 10 October 2025.
| Agreement | Expected cap exhaustion |
|---|---|
| Wiley (hybrid titles) | Cap reached on 19 September |
| Springer Nature | Cap reached 9 October |
| Taylor & Francis | Around 26 October |
| Wiley (fully open access titles) | Around 28 October |
Agreements with Elsevier and American Institute of Physics (AIP) Publishing are not expected to reach their 2025 caps.
Visit Capped agreement approval for an updated forecast on these caps.
Open access publishing options for authors
If your article to be published falls outside an agreement, you may have to pay an Article Processing Charge (APC) or consider other available options for open access publishing.
Hybrid journals
For Hybrid journals, your best open-access publishing option is to publish your article as open access in UQ eSpace (an embargo period may apply). You:
- publish behind the paywall of the journal title
- do not pay an APC.
Visit Make research open access in UQ eSpace for more information.
If you have the funds, you can choose to pay the APC.
Fully open-access journals
It’s important for authors to remember that:
- they should put aside APC funds in case their article acceptance falls outside the coverage of a capped agreement
- the number of days from submission to acceptance varies between journal titles and may take time.
Delaying your publication
We are sometimes asked by authors whether they should wait until next year to publish their article.
Negotiations with publishers for 2026 agreements are underway. However, we can’t predict what those agreements may include. For this reason, we recommend that authors proceed with their publishing plans.
More about Read & Publish agreements
We are monitoring updates around agreements for 2026 and will update Journal Search (UQ login required) and the Read and Publish agreements page with fresh information when it becomes available.
You can contact our Faculty Services Librarians if you have questions around Read and Publish agreements or for publishing advice.
