This CSIRO uncapped agreement includes 19 hybrid and 2 OA journal titles during 2023-2025, which allows authors from participating institutions to publish open access with no transactional article processing charges (APCs).
CSIRO Publishing is Australia's leading science publisher of books, journals, and magazines. We demonstrate the value of science and capture and share knowledge for future generations.
Part of the research community our purpose is to enhance the impact of science by communicating the outcomes of research, empowering decision makers, and enriching the lives of our all our readers.
Articles accepted from 1/1/2024 are eligible to be published open access under this agreement.
The following article types are eligible for open access under this agreement:
Article types excluded from this agreement include, but are not limited to:
Hybrid journals that 'flip' to OA during the course of this agreement will remain available for OA publishing for the duration of the agreement.
CSIRO Publishing does not charge additional fees for page and/or colour fees. Authors should always check each journal’s submission guidelines to ensure that they will not be subject to any other fees or charges.
As defined by the publisher, the eligible author is:
Corresponding/ Main Author
Responsible corresponding authors must include a participating institution as one of their affiliations to benefit from this agreement.
Authors will be identified as eligible for open access publishing by their:
Responsible corresponding authors must use their institutional email address when submitting an article for publication.
Responsible corresponding authors should not use personal email addresses (e.g. Hotmail, Gmail). Doing so may result in delayed approval of the article or the article may not be approved to be published open access under the terms of the agreement.
Articles from authors at participating institutions may be published under the following Creative Commons licenses:
Authors retain all rights as per the CC license.
Further information about licenses is available on the publisher's website.
The Creative Commons licenses allow reuse (some with conditions) while protecting the authors' rights of acknowledgment as authors.
The following instructions for authors have been provided by the publisher. Further details are available on the publisher’s website.
*Articles are submitted and accepted in Scholar One.
*Flows through to CCC Rightslink system for Author Ring gold ID
and email domain matching.
*Author selects licence type and accepts institutional funding for Open Access.
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Papers published in the following journals are deposited directly to PubMed:
Article metadata is also sent to a number of other repositories. For details, view the 'about the journal' pages on the publisher's website.
Papers published in the following journals are deposited directly to PubMed:
Article metadata is also sent to a number of other repositories. For details, view the 'about the journal' pages on the publisher's website.