Open Access: Publishing Agreements

Cambridge University Press

Status

Available for articles with an acceptance date from 1 January 2022

Journal coverage

View the journal title list

Eligible article types

• Research articles
• Review articles
• Rapid communications
• Brief reports
• Case reports

Page and colour charges are not included in the R&P agreement, and only apply to print journals. Journals that have page charges (for print) are:

• Radiocarbon (RDC)
• Weed Technology (WET)
• Invasive Plant Science and Management (INP)
• Weed Science (WSC).

Articles from authors at participating institutions may be published under the author's choice of the following licences:

• CC-BY
• CC-BY-SA
• CC-BY-ND
• CC-BY-NC
• CC-BY-NC-SA
• CC-BY-NC-ND.

Further information about the licences is available on the publisher's website.

1. Follow CUP’s usual article submission process via the journal’s homepage on Cambridge Core.
2. On acceptance of the article, CUP will ask the corresponding author to complete a form (publishing agreement).
3. The corresponding author selects Gold Open Access and confirms the licence type (i.e. CC-BY).
4. Rightslink works on the publisher's behalf to manage the APCs. When the  submitting author is from an eligible CAUL institution, the APC will be automatically waived.

Also see the Step by Step Guide to Publishing OA in Cambridge Journals.

Further information on this agreement is available from Cambridge University Press.

This page contains information from Read & Publish Agreements Negotiated by CAUL by Council of Australians University Librarians licensed under CC BY 4.0