Consider publishing in an Open Access journal in order to:

• Remove barriers to accessing your research - Taxpayers/public can access research which means faster translation to practice
• Enable worldwide collaboration with other researchers
• Increase the impact of your research with higher citation rates and exposure
• Showcase Charles Sturt University's research outputs
• Meet funding body requirements
• Equity of information access around the world

The ARC and NHMRC have adopted policies requiring research outputs to be freely accessible / open access. 

You can make your work open access in one of two ways:

1. self-archiving a copy of the author accepted manuscript on your institutional repository, such as CSU Research Output (CRO) repository. Self-archiving is sometimes referred to as Green OA
2. publishing in a journal that is free to readers, but may be subject to article processing charges (APC)

The Open Access Publishing Scheme for 2024 is open to Charles Sturt researchers in all faculties, whilst funds are available. 

A maximum of $4,000 (AUD) is available as a contribution to the article processing charge (APC). To be eligible for this scheme, the article must be published in a peer-reviewed journal. Please read the guidelines before applying.

Charles Sturt no longer provides institutional funds to cover costs associated with publishing open access with Hindawi, MDPI or Frontiers.

The guidelines and application form are available to download below (or on the Research Support Schemes site):

In January 2024, Charles Sturt signed several Open Access publishing agreements with leading scholarly publishers.

Open Access publishing agreements, sometimes called Read & Publish agreements, provide authors with the opportunity to publish Open Access in subscription journals immediately upon acceptance, and free of any transactional Article Processing Charges (APCs). Articles published under these agreements are made Open Access in journals that operate under either the Gold or Hybrid models.

Open Access publishing agreements represent a shift away from the traditional subscription model where institutions pay a subscription to read content that is published behind a paywall. To read the articles published under the traditional model, the reader must pay a fee to read an article or belong to an institution that has paid the subscription.

Open Access publishing agreements, on the other hand, broaden access to the published articles through Open Access publishing. By incorporating the Article Processing Charge (APC) into the institutional subscription fee paid to the publisher, the Open Access publishing deals provide academic authors from Charles Sturt with the opportunity to increase the reach of their work by publishing Open Access. Under these agreements, authors can often choose which Creative Commons licence they wish to apply to their work.

More information on the Open Access publishing agreements available to Charles Sturt authors can be found on this guide's Open Access publishing agreements tab.

List of Open Access Publishing agreements that Charles Sturt signed in 2024

• Association of Computing Machinery (ACM)
• American Psychological Association (APA)
• Cambridge University Press
• CSIRO Publishing
• Elsevier
• Oxford University Press
• SAGE
• Springer Nature
• Taylor & Francis
• Wiley