Open access agreement for authors in Australia
Authors based at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) in Australia may be eligible to publish open access in Taylor & Francis and Routledge Open Select (hybrid) or open (gold) journals at no extra cost.
This is thanks to a Transformative Agreement (Open Select journals), and an open access agreement (open journals) between CSIRO and Taylor & Francis which gives authors continued access to subscription research while giving the opportunity for them to publish open access in Open Select and open journals.
Filter through the eligible Open Select journals and eligible open journals to find the right home for your research.
What are the benefits of publishing open access under this agreement?
Publishing open access means your article will be freely available to view and read online for anyone, anywhere. Benefits of publishing open access include:
- Wider readership of your article
- Greater impact, as everyone from policymakers in your field to the general public and media will have free access to your research
- Greater shareability, since publishing under a CC-BY license allows you to share your research across a variety of platforms
- Improved discoverability, since many of our journals are indexed in internationally recognized citation and abstract databases, such as the Journal Citation Report (JCR), Scopus, and PubMed
- A robust peer review system
Which journals can I publish in under this open access agreement?
Authors should check this list of open journals and Open Select journals prior to submission to be aware which titles are eligible for open access publishing under this agreement.
Which articles are covered by this open access agreement?
To be eligible for funding, the corresponding author must be part of CSIRO and be publishing a paper in a Taylor & Francis or Routledge open journal or Open Select (hybrid) journal. The article will need to be accepted for publication after 1 January 2024.
If the journal has additional costs, such as page charges or color charges, these fees will still apply and will not be covered by the agreement.
Articles must be original research papers. Other types of paper, such as Editorials, Announcements, and Book Reviews, are not covered by this open access publishing agreement.
Authors must use their CSIRO institutional email address. Failure to use a matching institutional email address may result in the article not being eligible for open access under this agreement.
For the transformative agreement, is there a limit to the number of articles that can be made open access under this agreement?
Yes, CSIRO and Taylor & Francis have agreed a maximum number of open access articles to be published for each year of this partnership. Please be aware that this limit might therefore be reached before the end of a year, at which point the open access publishing element of the agreement will be paused until the beginning of the following year. However, even if the article allocation is reached, individual institutions may still have funds to continue supporting open access publishing. Please talk to your library for further details.
