VU Open Access Publishing Agreements

VU currently has ten Open Access Publishing Agreements negotiated via the Council of Australasian University Librarians (CAUL)

These agreements enable publishing in selected hybrid and gold journals without payment of an APC (article processing charge)
Publishing in journals under these agreements is available to all VU staff and higher degree by research students using your VU email address and affiliation .

Searchable OA Publishing Database

The OA Publishing database enables researchers to search for individual journal titles covered by VU Open Access Agreements.

It is possible to search via the following fields

• Title

• ISSN

• Publisher 

  Association for Computing Machinery	Cambridge University Press	Elsevier	Emerald Publishing	IWA Publishing
  Oxford University Press	Sage	Springer Nature	Taylor & Francis	Wiley

• Scimago ranking

  Q1

  Q2

  Q3

  Q4

• Scimago discipline
  When searching via Scimago discipline, it is advisable to truncate to a word stem
  eg. 'agricult' to retrieve disciplines such as agricultural, agriculture

Example below:

To retrieve Q1 ranked journals on 'Health' enter 
Discipline: Health
Ranking: Q1