Agreement duration: The UNSW agreement is from 1 January 2025 - 31 December 2025. A previous one-year agreement was in place during 2024.
Acceptance date: Eligible articles that have an acceptance date during the term of this agreement from 1 January 2025 - 31 December 2025 are eligible to be published open access.
Summary: APA is the leading scientific and professional organisation representing psychology in the United States, with more than 146,000 researchers, educators, clinicians, consultants, and students as its members. NB: journals that change from hybrid to fully open during the course of the agreement also remain available for open access publishing. There is no limit on the number of articles that can be published by UNSW corresponding authors under the agreement.
Titles included: 2025 APA published hybrid journals. The following titles are excluded: Hogrefe-published journals and APA's Gold open access journal Technology, Mind, and Behavior.
Information for authors: UNSW corresponding authors must use their UNSW institutional email address (name@unsw.edu.au) to be eligible under this agreement and to help verify affiliation. Articles are published under a CC BY licence.
All current UNSW researchers including HDR candidates are eligible to publish under this agreement.
For journal response times between submission and acceptance you should check the specific journal guidelines for accurate information.
Page Charges: Page charges are only applicable if an article has colour figures that will appear in colour in a print journal (i.e., not just online). For details on APA’s general publishing requirements, please see the manuscript preparation guidelines on the publisher website.
Eligible article types: Research articles, Brief reports, Review articles.
Sharing via repositories: Please note, UNSW corresponding authors can simply comply with the Open Access policy by retaining the rights to the Author Accepted Manuscript and depositing a copy into UNSWorks (via ROS) using a CC BY licence.
How to submit your article for open access publishing:
The UNSW corresponding author should follow the usual article submission process via the APA website.
On acceptance of the article, the publisher will ask the corresponding author to complete a form (publishing agreement).
On acceptance of the manuscript, the payment system will allow UNSW corresponding authors to choose UNSW as their institution and remove the open access fee.
To comply with the Open Access policy the UNSW corresponding author will need to retain the rights to either the Published Version of Record or Author Accepted Manuscript, 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.