18 November 2021
De Gruyter and the Council of Australian University Librarians (CAUL) have announced their first Read & Publish agreement, covering subscription access and Open Access publishing during the 2022 calendar year.
Under the opt-in agreement, universities in Australia and New Zealand may subscribe to any De Gruyter eJournal package in 2022. Authors affiliated with participating institutions may publish an uncapped number of accepted articles in Open Access in any of the eligible hybrid journals listed in their institution’s subscribed package during 2022 at no additional cost. Authors may also publish articles in any De Gruyter’s fully open gold journals at a discount.
The agreement is expected to be of significant benefit to researchers in Australia and New Zealand across the Humanities, Social Sciences, Sciences, Technology, and Medicine, with more than 230 hybrid journals on offer in 2022.
“CAUL is delighted to see De Gruyter joining an ever-growing list of publishers providing Read & Publish options for CAUL Member Institutions,” said Angus Cook, Director, Content Procurement, CAUL. “Read and Publish Agreements with publishers such as De Gruyter, who cover a wide spectrum of subject areas, are vital in providing CAUL Member Institutions diverse channels for Australian and New Zealand produced research. We look forward to seeing the results of this agreement for our member institutions and the researchers and authors that they serve. The addition of De Gruyter further reflects CAUL’s commitment to a diverse publishing ecosystem (bibliodiversity) in agreements with small, medium and large publishers.”
“De Gruyter is excited to be working with CAUL to boost the open access publication of research from Australia and New Zealand. This is De Gruyter’s first read-and-publish agreement in the Asia-Pacific region, and we are delighted to support researchers and their institutions in Australia and New Zealand to transition towards OA,” says Ben Ashcroft, Vice President, Commercial at De Gruyter.