Updates on 2025 read-and-publish open access agreements
The Library is pleased to share updates to our read-and-publish open access agreements for 2025. Researchers should check what changes, if any, might impact their publishing choices.
What’s changing in 2025?
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM): No major changes. This is an uncapped agreement including all of ACM’s hybrid and gold journals.
AIP Publishing: No major changes. This is a capped agreement including most of AIP Publishing’s hybrid journals, but we don’t expect the cap to be fully utilised in 2025.
American Psychological Association (APA): No major changes. This is an uncapped agreement including most of APA’s hybrid journals.
American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME): No major changes. This is an uncapped agreement including all of ASME’s hybrid journals.
Cambridge University Press (CUP): No major changes. This is an uncapped agreement including most of CUP’s hybrid and gold journals.
CSIRO: No major changes. This is an uncapped agreement including some of CSIRO Publishing’s hybrid and gold journals.
Elsevier: No major changes. This is a capped agreement including most of Elsevier’s hybrid journals, but we don’t expect the cap to be fully utilised in 2025.
Emerald: New in 2025 – this is a new uncapped agreement including most of Emerald’s hybrid and gold journals.
IOP Publishing: No major changes. This is an uncapped agreement including most of IOP’s hybrid and gold journals.
Oxford University Press: Changes for 2025 – the agreement is now uncapped but only covers hybrid open access journals. Journals that ‘flipped’ to be fully open access between 2022–2024 are no longer included in this agreement. The affected journals are listed in the CAUL guide to this agreement. Authors with articles currently under review in these journals may be required to pay APCs if their articles are accepted. Please email openaccess@oup.com if you have questions.
The Royal Society: No major changes. This is an uncapped agreement including all of The Royal Society’s hybrid and gold journals.
Sage: No major changes. This is an uncapped agreement including most of Sage’s hybrid journals.
Springer Nature: This is a capped agreement, limited to 3,513 articles by all participating institutions. The cap is tracked on the CAUL guide to this agreement. In 2024, the Springer Nature cap was fully utilised by the end of October, and we expect this will happen again in 2025. Find out more.
Taylor & Francis: This is a capped agreement, limited to 3,877 articles by all participating institutions. The cap is tracked on the CAUL guide to this agreement. In 2024, the Taylor & Francis cap was fully utilised by the end of October, and we expect this will happen again in 2025. Find out more.
Taylor & Francis Expert Medicine (formerly Future Science Group): Changes for 2025 – This was previously known as the Future Science Group agreement; it is now the Taylor & Francis Expert Medicine Collection. This is an uncapped agreement as the journals are not currently included in the main Taylor & Francis agreement cap.
Wiley: This is a capped agreement. The 2025 cap for this agreement is split between 5,348 articles in hybrid journals and 1,690 articles in gold journals by all participating institutions. The cap is tracked on the CAUL guide to this agreement. In 2024, the Wiley cap was fully utilised by the end of September, and we expect that the cap for hybrid journals will again be fully utilised before the end of the year. Find out more.
What is a read-and-publish agreement?
Read-and-publish agreements are when libraries pay a flat fee to cover both subscription access to journal content and the open access publication costs for their authors. Deakin Library participates in sixteen read-and-publish agreements negotiated by the Council of Australian University Librarians (CAUL) consortium, which means corresponding authors at Deakin don’t have to pay open access article processing charges (APCs) in the included journals. Some agreements only include journals where open access is optional (hybrid journals), and some also include fully open access (gold) journals.
How can I find out if my chosen journal is included in a read-and-publish agreement?
You can check whether your chosen journal is included in two ways:
- Search for the journal in Where Should I Publish, and check the ‘Deakin OA Publishing Agreement’ field.
- Check our Open Access: Publishing Agreements guide for more information about each publisher, and links to the 2025 Title List. (Make sure you check for Deakin in the eligible institutions field when viewing this list, as it includes publishers that Deakin doesn’t have an agreement with.)
What does capped or uncapped mean?
Some of our read-and-publish agreements have a limitation (or ‘cap’) on the number of articles that can be made open access per year. The cap applies to the entire CAUL consortium membership, not any individual university. Once a cap is exceeded, articles are published with subscription (closed) access unless the authors elect to pay the open access APC themselves. It is usually the acceptance date of the article that determines eligibility for the yearly cap.
For articles published with subscription access, we recommend depositing the accepted manuscript version to Elements for free repository (green) open access in DRO after any applicable publisher embargo.
Another pathway to free open access is community-controlled (diamond) publishing, where journals don’t charge any fees to readers or authors.
For more information on read-and-publish publishers and journals, check out the Open Access: Publishing Agreements guide. Please contact your librarian with any questions about open access publishing.
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