The aim of this guide is to provide a list of high quality open access journals to SoTL researchers. The main avenue to make your work openly accessible is to publish in a journal covered by our Read & Publish agreements. We will provide advice on how these agreements work and a list of journals covered under these agreements.
Victoria University (VU) Library has Read & Publish (R&P) agreements with nine 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, 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:
Publish open access in specific journals published by Association for Computer Machinery (ACM), Cambridge University Press, Elsevier, International Water Association (IWA), Oxford University Press, SAGE, Springer Nature, Taylor & Francis, and Wiley.
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.
As mentioned above, even 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.
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