NOTICE: Information for 2025 will be provided at a later date
Agreement duration: The UNSW agreement is from 1 January 2024 to 31 December 2024 .
Acceptance date: 1 January 2024 to 31 December 2024.
Summary: European Respiratory Society (ERS) publishes 4 journals and monographs in respiratory medicine. One journal (European Respiratory Journal) is hybrid whilst the other three journals are listed as open access. There is no publishing limit on this agreement.
Title included: European Respiratory Journal – Read & Publish (standalone).
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.
Eligible article types: Original research articles, Research letters, Correspondence articles, ERJ Methods articles and review articles (and corrections to any of these articles). Exempted article types: Editorials: official European Respiratory Society documents and articles that cannot be published open access (for instance when a third party holds copyright).
Sharing via repositories: Allowed, printed or electronic for educational purposes only. 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 European Respiratory Journals 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. Articles from authors at participating institutions will be published under a CC BY or CC BY-NC licence.
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.