Please note that the 2025 title list has not yet been received, and will be updated as soon as possible.
IMPORTANT: The 2024 publishing cap was exhausted on 29 October. Authors of any additional articles accepted in 2024 may choose to publish articles as "closed access" and available to read via UNSW Library or pay an APC for the article to be published open access.
Agreement duration: The UNSW agreement has been extended for another year 1st January 2022 - 31st December 2025, or until the annual publication cap is reached.
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.
Summary: Springer Nature curates a large number of journals, books and databases across the science, technology, medicine, social sciences and humanities disciplines. The agreement will allow UNSW affiliated authors to publish their research open access in over 2,000 hybrid journals, across the Springer, Palgrave Macmillan and Adis portfolios and in the Academic Journals on nature.com. NB: NATURE branded journals are not part of this agreement - npj, Communications journals, Nature and Nature Research journals.
Titles included: 2024 Springer Nature Read and Publish Title List- 2025 title list still to be provided by publisher.
Acceptance date: Eligible articles that have an acceptance date during each annual term of this agreement (1st January 2024 - 31st December 2024) or up to the 2024 publication cap are eligible to be published open access under the terms of the agreement. The publishing cap is expected to be reached end October or early November 2024. From that time any APCs for open access publishing will need to be paid by the author.
Number of included articles: The number of included articles for 2024 is approximately 3,511 across all participating institutions. Once the allowance is used corresponding authors of any additional articles accepted in 2024 may choose to publish articles as "closed access" or to pay an APC for the article to be published open access.
Information for authors: See the Springer Nature website for more information. Further, UNSW corresponding authors must use their UNSW institutional email address (name@unsw.edu.au) to be eligible under this agreement. This agreement allows researchers to publish open access under a CC BY or CC BY-NC licence. Page and colour charges may apply. Rapid service fees not included in the agreement. For journal response times between submission and acceptance you should check the specific journal guidelines for accurate information.
Eligible article types: Original Paper, Review Paper, Brief Communication, Continuing Education.
How to submit your article for open access publishing:
1. Manuscript is submitted. Submitting author provides e.g. FundRef and ORCID information. Article category is assigned. Peer review is conducted.
2. After editorial acceptance, the corresponding author is able to identify themselves as affiliated to a member institution.
3. Corresponding author identifies themselves as connected to a member institution. The institution's OA agreement eligibility determines if the journal and article type are in scope for OA publication.
4. The author can now complete the remainder of the production process and the article is published open access. Further details are available on the publisher’s website.
Corresponding authors must use their institutional email address when submitting an article for publication in order for the publication to be approved to be published open access with no transactional APCs.
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.