About the Read and Publish agreements
The Library has transformative Read and Publish agreements in place with publishers to support open access publishing. Agreements are negotiated by the Council of Australasian University Librarians (CAUL).
In 2026, CAUL successfully negotiated new 3-year agreements with Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis, and a 4-year agreement with Elsevier.
If you need further information, our Open Access Publishing guide covers open access publishing, the agreements, and Creative Commons licenses in greater detail. Or you can talk to our Research Services team.
Important information about agreements
- When publishing in journals covered by these agreements, you may be able to publish directly to open access with no transactional Article Processing Charges (APCs). The publisher will alert you to an open access option on acceptance of the eligible article.
- Each publication has a different submission process and criteria. Exclusions and caps apply to some journals.
- Eligible submissions must be received and accepted for publication during the current agreement year.
The cap for publishing in Wiley gold OA journals is expected to reach its limit by early November!
After that point, authors publishing in eligible gold OA (full open access) journals will need to cover the APC. Hybrid journals are not affected and will continue to be covered for the remainder of the year.
Not sure if your journal is covered by the cap? Contact the Library's Research Services team for assistance.
Journals covered by APC waivers and discount agreements
Q1 journals rank among top 25% of journals in the same area of research. Publishing in a Q1 journal may result in higher impact for your article. Individual researchers are in the best position to make the decision where to publish their content.
To assist you with this decision, we have compiled a list of journal titles covered by these agreements. There are separate versions of the same list available for staff and students.
RMIT Read and Publish Agreements title list also includes discounted journal titles. Please read carefully the 'Waiver/Discount' column to determine if an APC will be waived or a discount will be applied. Check the discount applied for each publisher.
Authors, please note:
- Ensure you are the corresponding author when submitting.
- You must use your RMIT email (e.g. ...@rmit.edu.au, ...@student.rmit.edu.au or ...@rmit.edu.vn), to be accepted as eligible.
- RMIT University Ringgold ID 5376 if requested.
- List institution as Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology or RMIT University.
- Select your choice of Creative Commons (CC) license.
Agreements for 2026
The links below will take you to the CAUL guides. Pay attention to the following:
- if the agreement is capped,
- if extra charges are applicable, and
- what Creative Commons (CC) licences are available.
Accessibility: If you encounter issues accessing the content in any of the guides, please email library.collection@rmit.edu.au for assistance.
RMIT staff and students are eligible for the following agreements:
- American Institute of Physics (AIP)
- American Psychological Association (APA)
- American Society of Mechanical Engineers
- Association of Computing Machinery
- BMJ (RMIT Australia only)
- Brill
- Cambridge University Press
- Company of Biologists
- CSIRO Publishing
- De Gruyter
- Elsevier
- Emerald
- Institute of Physics (IOP)
- IWA Publishing
- Microbiology Society
- Oxford University Press
- The Royal Society
- SAGE
- Springer Nature
- Taylor and Francis
- Wiley and Hindawi
