Academic publisher Cambridge University Press and the Council of Australian University Librarians (CAUL) have reached a transformative agreement to support Open Access (OA) publishing in Cambridge Journals for 2022. It is one of the first major uncapped transformative agreements reached with CAUL by a publisher of significant size in Australia and New Zealand.
It further underscores the Press’s commitment to open research, which has seen a rapid expansion of such agreements with higher education and research institutions around the globe, supporting authors to publish OA, improving the reach and impact of their work and helping lead the move to a sustainable, open future for research. It also builds on the series of transformative agreements negotiated by CAUL since late 2019.
Such deals cover the cost for participating institutions to access a publisher’s journals and any Article Processing Charges the institution’s authors would normally pay to publish their work Open Access with that publisher.
The 39 universities that are members of CAUL, and the eight universities represented in the Council of New Zealand University Librarians (CONZUL) can now choose to opt-in to the 2022 agreement, which would allow their authors to publish research articles in over 380 Press journals. In addition, each institution will have full ‘read' access to the journal collections they currently subscribe to.
The agreement enables a steady transition towards a complete open transformation, which fairly apportions fees based on the research output of the participating institution and recognises the complexity of the varied funding models and drivers for publication for authors in different areas.
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