Research Publishing & Impact: Canadian Science Publishing
Canadian Science Publishing (CSP): OA Publishing Agreement
The 2025 Agreement enables Otago corresponding authors to publish an uncapped number of accepted research and review open access articles in CSP's 19 hybrid and 3 Open Access Journals, without any article processing charges (APCs).
All article types are included in the Agreement, including standard research articles, review articles, and brief article types.
Article eligibility
Articles submitted from 1/1/2025 are eligible to be published open access under this agreement.
Article types
The following article types are eligible for open access under this agreement:
- Article
- Review
- Communication
- Note
- Data Paper
- Comment
- Invited Review
- Letter
- Mini Review
- Research Article
- Science Applications Forum
- Perspective
- Editorial
- Retrospective
- Reply
Title List
The 2025 Agreement enables Otago corresponding authors to publish an uncapped number of accepted research and review open access articles in CSP's 19 hybrid and 3 Open Access Journals, without any article processing charges (APCs)
Hybrid journals that 'flip' to OA during the course of this agreement will remain available for OA publishing for the duration of the agreement.
Hybrid Subscription Journals
- Applied Physiology, Nutrition, and Metabolism
- Biochemistry and Cell Biology
- Botany
- Canadian Geotechnical Journal
- Canadian Journal of Animal Science
- Canadian Journal of Chemistry
- Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering
- Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences
- Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
- Canadian Journal of Forest Research
- Canadian Journal of Microbiology
- Canadian Journal of Physics
- Canadian Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology
- Canadian Journal of Plant Science
- Canadian Journal of Soil Science
- Canadian Journal of Zoology
- Environmental Reviews
- Genome
- Transactions of the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering
Open Access Journals
- FACETS
- Drone Systems and Applications
- Arctic Science
Other charges
CSP does 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.
Author eligibility
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:
- email address
- institutional affiliation
Responsible corresponding authors must use their @otago.ac.nz 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.
Author rights
Articles from authors at participating institutions may be published under the following Creative Commons licenses:
- CC BY
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.
How to submit your article for open access publishing
The following instructions for authors have been provided by the publisher. Further details are available on the publisher’s website.
Contacts
Please email pubs@cdnsciencepub.com for questions regarding this agreement. Please include your full name, institution, article title, journal name and DOI (if available), and state the reason for your enquiry.
More information coming soon.