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Research Publishing & Impact: CSIRO

CSIRO: Read and Publish Agreement

This CSIRO uncapped agreement includes 19 hybrid journal titles during 2023-2025, which allows authors from participating institutions to publish open access with no transactional article processing charges (APCs).

All 15 CSIRO owned journals are included for publishing plus four (4) society journals:

  • Australian Journal of Primary Health (society journal)
  • Historical Records of Australian Science (society journal)
  • Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria (society journal)
  • The Rangeland Journal (society journal)
  • Animal Production Science
  • Australian Journal of Botany
  • Australian Journal of Chemistry
  • Australian Journal of Zoology
  • Australian Systematic Botany
  • Crop and Pasture Science
  • Environmental Chemistry
  • Functional Plant Biology
  • Invertebrate Systematics
  • Marine and Freshwater Research
  • Pacific Conservation Biology
  • Reproduction, Fertility and Development
  • Sexual Health
  • Soil Research
  • Wildlife Research

There is no limit on the number of articles that can be published under the agreement.

These 4 Society journals are excluded from the Agreement:

  • Australian Health Review
  • Australian Mammalogy
  • International Journal of Wildland Fire
  • The APPEA Journal

Corresponding authors from institutions listed under 'Participating institutions' may publish immediately to open access on the publisher's platform once the article has been accepted, with no transactional APCs. This includes all page charges except colour pages or reprints.

Author rights

Articles from authors at member institutions may be published under the authors' choice of either CC-BYCC-BY-NC-ND or CC-BY-NC license. These licenses allow reuse (some with conditions) while protecting the authors' rights of acknowledgment as authors. Authors retain copyright.

How to submit your article for open access publishing

Submit your article via the publisher's submission system, ScholarOne.

You will be recognised as being eligible for open access publishing with no transactional APCs via your institutional email address and your institution's Ringgold ID.

See also: Publisher guide: Author workflow

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.

Publishing

  • The agreement provides open access publishing in all journals listed under 'Included titles' (selected by the institution), for corresponding authors of institutions listed under 'Participating institutions'. 
  • There is no limit on the number of articles that can be published under the agreement.
  • There are no transactional APCs for papers submitted by corresponding authors from participating institutions. This includes all page charges except colour pages or reprints.

Publishing alerts

Confirmation is sent to the library via the designated contact email address once a submission is accepted. Library staff may also log into RightsLink to see all transactions. Regular reporting is provided for each institution for both papers published and in the pipeline.

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.