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Research Publishing & Impact: CSIRO

CSIRO: Read and Publish Agreement

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.

Article eligibility

Articles accepted from 1/1/2024 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
  • Article; Early Access
  • Review
  • Review; Early Access

Article types excluded from this agreement include, but are not limited to:

  • Editorial
  • Foreward
  • Letter to the Editor
  • Comment/Response
  • Book Review
  • Corrigendum
  • Letter

Hybrid journals that 'flip' to OA during the course of this agreement will remain available for OA publishing for the duration of the agreement.

Other charges

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.

Author eligibility

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:

  • institutional affiliation
  • email address

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. 

Author rights

Articles from authors at participating institutions may be published under the following Creative Commons licenses:

  • CC BY
  • CC BY-NC
  • CC BY-NC-ND

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.

*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.

Example screenshot(s):

Sharing via repositories

Green open access
  • Green open access is allowed with no embargo. 
  • Automated deposit to institutional repositories: Published papers are sent to the institutional repository once published online for early access.
Other repositories

Papers published in the following journals are deposited directly to PubMed:

  • Reproduction, Fertility and Development
  • Sexual Health
  • Functional Plant Biology
  • Australian Health Review
  • Australian Journal of Primary Health
  • Journal of Primary Healthcare

Article metadata is also sent to a number of other repositories. For details, view the 'about the journal' pages on the publisher's website.

Contact details: CSIRO Publishing

Please email publishing.subscriptions@csiro.au 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.

Sharing via repositories

Green open access
  • Green open access is allowed with no embargo. 
  • Automated deposit to institutional repositories: Published papers are sent to the institutional repository once published online for early access.
Other repositories

Papers published in the following journals are deposited directly to PubMed:

  • Reproduction, Fertility and Development
  • Sexual Health
  • Functional Plant Biology
  • Australian Health Review
  • Australian Journal of Primary Health
  • Journal of Primary Healthcare

Article metadata is also sent to a number of other repositories. For details, view the 'about the journal' pages on the publisher's website.