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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.

Taylor & Francis Open Access Publishing Agreement

Important Notice: The Future Medicine and Future Science platforms closed on 24th May 2024 and are now hosted at Taylor & Francis Online

Agreement duration: The UNSW agreement is from 1st January 2023 - 31st December 2025 or until the annual publication cap is reached. NB: in 2024 this was from 29 October.

Summary: Taylor & Francis Online provides access to cross-disciplinary peer-reviewed journals across humanities and social sciences, science and technology, medicine and healthcare, and engineering fields of research. The agreement will allow UNSW affiliated authors to publish their research open access in over 2,100 hybrid journals (Open Select). NB: journals that change from hybrid to fully open during the course of the agreement also remain available for open access publishing.

Titles included:  2025 Taylor & Francis Read and Publish Title List

Information for authors: Refer to the author publishing journey. 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-ND licence. There may be additional page charges that remain payable by the corresponding author. There is a 10% discount for eligible UNSW corresponding authors on APCs on journal titles outside of this agreement. For journal response times between submission and acceptance you should check the specific journal guidelines for accurate information.

Eligible article types: Article, review, research article, review article, report, short communication, case report note, original article, guest editorial.

Acceptance date: Eligible articles that have an acceptance date during the term of this agreement 1st January 2023 - 31st December 2025. 

Number of included articles: This is a capped agreement. In 2025 the number of articles is limited to 3877 (75% of 2024 publishing output of participating institutions). Once the allowance is used, 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.

How to submit your article for open access publishing:

  1. The UNSW corresponding author should follow the usual article submission process via the journals homepage or search via Taylor & Francis online journals and provide their official UNSW institutional affiliation and official UNSW email address.

  2. The submitted article will go through thorough peer review.

  3. If the article is accepted, the publisher will ask the corresponding author to complete an Author Publishing Agreement.

  4. On acceptance of the manuscript, the payment system will allow UNSW corresponding authors to choose UNSW as their institution and request open access funding.

  5. The UNSW corresponding author will sign the Author Publisher Agreement. Taylor & Francis will advise if the article has been approved or declined under the OA publishing agreement.

  6. Articles from corresponding authors at participating institutions will be published under a CC BY or CC BY-NC-ND licence.

  7. 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.

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