Agreement duration: The UNSW agreement is from 1 January 2025 - 31 December 2025.
Acceptance date: Eligible articles that have an acceptance date during the term of this agreement from 1 January 2025 - 31 December 2025.
Summary: De Gruyter is a leader in open access publishing. They are one of the world's largest independent providers of OA books and are actively driving the transformation of their journal portfolio to open access. Authors may publish open access in all: hybrid journals in English, S20 journals in English and gold journals. Upon publication, articles will be made open access. There is no limit on the number of articles that can be published by UNSW corresponding authors under the agreement.
Titles included: All English hybrid journals, all English S20 journals and all gold journals. Please refer to the title list for details.
Information for authors: This agreement includes all current UNSW researchers including HDR candidates and must use their UNSW institutional email address (name@unsw.edu.au) to be eligible and to help verify affiliation. In most cases, articles are only eligible if UNSW is the corresponding author's primary affiliation in both the publishing system and in the article itself. RingGold is also used to affiliate. UNSW's RingGold is 7800. Eligible Authors, on acceptance of publication, will have Open Access Articles published in the 2025 De Gruyter eJournal Collections free of Article Processing Charge. The Publisher will not charge eligible authors service fees (eg. colour-in-print, reprints, posters).
Eligible article types: Original paper, review paper, brief communication, continuing education, case reports. Articles may be published open access under a CC BY licence type.
How to submit your article for open access publishing:
1. Information specific to institutions in Australia and New Zealand be found here. De Gruyter presents authors with information about its OA programs here. The site includes detailed information on publishing in Open Access with De Gruyter, the submission process, the publication process, and more.
2. De Gruyter’s standard submission processes apply, as does single or double-blind peer review processes. Please note that the Publisher, its journal editors, and its peer reviewers reserve the right to refuse to publish an article on the basis of quality.
De Gruyter will automatically check the affiliation of the corresponding author during the submission process and inform them directly if a read-and-publish agreement applies to their institution. For this reason, authors must submit their articles using their institutional email address.
3. To comply with the Open Access policy the UNSW corresponding author will need to retain the rights to the publication and deposit into UNSWorks using a CC BY licence.
Corresponding authors should not use personal email addresses (e.g. Hotmail, Gmail) or email addresses affiliated with other organisations, research centres or institutes. Otherwise they may be ineligible under the terms of this agreement.
For any queries about this open access publishing agreement please use this short form.