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The objective of this resource is to inform the UNSW community of changes to the Library Collection and open access publishing agreements in which the University participates.

British Medical Journal (BMJ) Open Access Publishing Agreement

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: Since 1840, BMJ Group has been at the forefront of providing research, knowledge, and education to health professionals worldwide, envisioning a healthier world for all.  BMJ publishes across 30 medical and allied science specialities. Authors may publish open access in hybrid journals in the BMJ Premier Collection published by BMJ Group. Upon publication, articles will be made immediately open access. There is no limit on the number of articles that can be published by UNSW corresponding authors under the agreement.

Titles included: Includes any hybrid BMJ Group title listed here (as updated or modified from time to time). Fully open BMJ journals are not included.

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. Further information about the agreement can be found on the BMJ Information for Authors guide.

Eligible article types: An original article reporting on primary research which: (i) is agreed to be published as an Open Access Article; (ii) is submitted to an Eligible Journal. Please view a summary of article types here for all BMJ Journal Collection titles and note that eligible article types vary according to the journal.  Articles may be published open access under a CC BY or CC BY-NC licence type. 

How to submit your article for open access publishing: 

  1. The UNSW corresponding author should follow the BMJ author submission workflow. UNSW RingGold is 7800. More information is available via the "How to publish your article open access with BMJ" guide.
  2. The submitted article with go through thorough peer review.
  3.  BMJ will identify eligible articles that have been submitted by eligible authors and will indicate the availability of this agreement to UNSW affiliated authors.

  4. To comply with the Open Access policy the UNSW corresponding author will need to retain the rights to Author Accepted Manuscript and deposit into UNSWorks using a CC BY licence.

Corresponding authors should not use personal email addresses (e.g. 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.>

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