Charles Sturt University has a number of Open Access Publishing Agreements, most are negotiated by the Council of Australasian University Librarians (CAUL). In 2025 we have agreements with the following publishers:

• Association of Computing Machinery (ACM)
• American Psychological Association (APA)
• Cambridge University Press
• CSIRO Publishing
• Emerald
• Oxford University Press
• SAGE 

The following agreements are capped:

• Elsevier (cap NOT expected to be reached until 2026)
• Springer Nature (cap exhausted early October)
• Taylor & Francis (cap expected to be reached late October 2025)
• Wiley and Hindawi (Hybrid cap exhausted mid-September, Fully OA cap expected to be reached early November)

See the full list of all journals included: CAUL Read & Publish Agreements

Please note that not all journal titles are eligible under the agreements, some publishers have capped agreements, and, in some cases, additional fees will apply. Each agreement has different conditions; refer to the "Further details and information for authors" on each of the publisher pages on the CAUL guide.  

Other agreements: 

The Journal of Medical Microbiology. 

Corresponding authors from Charles Sturt now have the ability to publish in The Journal of Medical Microbiology without paying Article Processing Charges (APCs).  There is no cap, this is a publisher direct agreement. Read more here. 

Author publishing workflow

1. Submit your article to an eligible journal; as the Charles Sturt corresponding author, you will be recognised by your institutional email address or by specifying your Charles Sturt University affiliation. Ensure you always use your Charles Sturt email address (ending in "@csu.edu.au"). In some instances, the journal will require additional identification information, such as a postal address
2. The article progresses through peer review
3. When you receive notification that your article has been accepted, you will be given the option to select Open Access publishing with no transactional Article Processing Charges
4. Your article is published Open Access under a Creative Commons licence

Ensure an Open Access Publishing agreement applies to your article

Without an Open Access Publishing agreement, you may be charged an article processing charge (APC). This can range anywhere up to $4500 per article (and occasionally more).

In 2025, Charles Sturt will continue offering the Tri-Faculty Open Access Publishing scheme. See the Internal Funding Opportunities webpage for more information on Faculty lead APC funding distinct from the CAUL Open Access Publishing agreements.

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