Publish and Read (PAR) Agreements, also known as Read and Publish Agreements or Transformative Agreements, are arrangements between scholarly publishers and their users (authors, readers and institutional libraries). They are designed to transform the business model of scholarly publishing by enabling publishers to transition from the traditional subscription-based pay-to-read model to an Open Access publishing model.
They accomplish this by bundling payment for publishing and reading into a single fee paid by the library or institution. By entering into these agreements libraries can divert funds from subscription-based read only agreements into open access publishing while institutional authors benefit by having the opportunity to publish Open Access without incurring Article Processing Charges (APC).
Transformative agreements normally allow authors to retain copyright of their articles under a Creative Commons license with CC-BY the most commonly applied license.
You don’t need to change your publishing practices. Submit where you would normally submit your research and you’ll be notified on acceptance if you are eligible to publish your article open access with no transactional APCs. For more information on strategic publishing please click here.
For 2022, Elsevier are providing a 12.5% discount on Article Processing Charges, paid by Macquarie University corresponding authors
Please see the attached list for eligible hybrid titles.
Please note, this is not a Read & Publish Agreement, simply a discount on APC fees, applied to APC invoices
Negates the standard Article Processing Charge (APC) for these journals.
Please note: The Springer Nature Open Access (OA) Article Processing Charges (APCs) article cap has now been reached.
This means that for the remaining months of 2022, articles will not be able to be published OA in Springer Nature journals without having to pay the APCs.
We are not sure how Springer Nature will inform you that the quota has been reached. Please be aware that you might receive a message from Springer Nature that you have to cover the costs for publishing Open Access APCs. In this case, please consider the options to publish Open Access below :
Publishing OA using Author Accepted Manuscript (AAM) after an embargo period and without an open license
Publishing OA upon publication and under a CC license
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If you have questions, please contact the Library’s Research and Scholarly Information Services Team and they can check the publisher policies and make the AAM available open access when allowed by the relevant publisher policies.
Allows Macquarie authors to publish open access into approximately 1400 Wiley journals
Negates the standard Article Processing Charge (APC) for these journals.
Gives researchers access to all hybrid and subscription journals.
The number of articles for Open Access publishing under this agreement is subject to an annual cap.
From 2023 the Wiley Read and Publish Agreement will include all Wiley Gold Titles and all Hindawi Titles, for publishing, free of any APC charges to authors.
Some titles are flipping to this model this year: please see the list of Wiley Hybrid titles that are flipping to Wiley Gold and Hindawi.
Wiley Gold: Authors who have articles accepted after the flip date will be able to publish OA without any APC charge.
Hindawi: Authors who have submitted an article for publishing before the flip date, but it is accepted between the flip date and before December 31, 2022, will be able to publish OA without any APC charge. Authors who submit an article after the flip date, but it is accepted before December 31, 2022 will have to pay an APC. Authors are being notified when they submit that they will incur an APC if the article is accepted.