Publishing via Open Access

Read & Publish agreements 

Victoria University (VU) Library has Open Access Read & Publish (R&P) agreements with ten major publishers as part of the Read & Publish agreements negotiated by the CAUL (Council of Australian University Librarians). The agreements with Association for Computer Machinery (ACM), Cambridge University Press, Elsevier, Emerald,, International Water Association (IWA), Oxford University Press, SAGE, Springer Nature, Taylor & Francis, and Wiley cover both subscription to read journals and Article Processing Charges (APCs) to publish open access.

What this means for VU researchers:

You can publish open access in specific journals published by Association for Computer Machinery (ACM), Cambridge University Press, Elsevier, Emerald  International Water Association (IWA), Oxford University Press, SAGE, Springer Nature, Taylor & Francis, and Wiley.

Identify a journal that is an appropriate outlet for your work

Check whether it is covered by one of the VU Agreements

Submit your article – at the point of payment for APCs, you will see the option to publish open access and you should be able to select our institutional account to cover this.

• Read & Publish Journal Database 2025

  Complete searchable database of journals covered under the VU Library R&P agreements. Includes rankings, categories, & journal homepage URL. 

Article Processing Charges outside of VU Agreements

It is possible to publish Open Access outside of the VU Read and Publish Agreements. However, publishing via these outlets "Gold' OA is likely to incur a substantial APC (article processing charge)

There is currently no Library funding support for article processing charges. Centralised support for OA publishing is via Open Access/Read and Publish agreements and the publishers covered include (ACM, Cambridge, Elsevier, Emerald, IWA Publishing, Oxford, Sage, Spinger Nature, Taylor & Francis and Wiley)

If you submit to a 'Gold' journal and are asked to pay an APC, you will need to identify a funding source to cover this cost. 

Publishing Green Open Access

If a journal is not Open Access you can still make your work open by submitting a version to the VU Research Repository (VURR). 

The Author Accepted Manuscript (AAM) is the version you can make open access (Green OA).  This version, often in Word format, is peer-reviewed but does not yet have the publishers formatting such as logos.

Publishing in a repository increases citation rates (see Benefits of OA).  Content is indexed in Google Scholar, Trove and many other discovery services.   VURR is part of a global infrastructure that ensures content can be discovered and accessed by anyone with an internet connection.