Transformative Agreements describe contracts negotiated between institutions (libraries, national and regional consortia) and publishers that aim to transform the business model underlying scholarly journal publishing, moving from one based on subscriptions to one in which publishers are remunerated a fair price for their open access publishing services. See Plan S FAQs. In Australasia, transformative agreements are negotiated by the Council of Australian University Librarians (CAUL). See the CAUL website for more information.
Avondale University currently have two transformative agreements in place with Springer Nature and Elsevier. See below for further information on these agreements.
SOURCE: Open Access Australasia
For more information on the Elsevier agreement please see the CAUL website. See below a quick summary of the agreement and article submission process for open access publishing.
Agreement duration: The Avondale University agreement is from 1st January 2025 - 31st December 2025 or until the annual publication cap is reached.
Summary: Elsevier is a leader in information and analytics helping researchers and healthcare professionals advance science and improve health outcomes for the benefit of society. This agrement will allow Avondale affiliated authors to publish their research open access in nearly all its 2,900+ journals.
Titles included: Check the Elsevier journal finder tool. All hybrid journals included. If you cannot find a journal title then it is not included in the OA publishing agreement. Journals that transfer from hybrid to gold during the term of the agreement will be eligible for publishing under the quota if they were hybrid journals at the start of the agreement date.
Acceptance date: Eligible article that have an acceptance date during this agreement will be covered under the agreement.
Information for authors: Avondale corresponding authors must use their Avondale institutional email address (name@avondale.edu.au) to be eligible under this agreement. This agreement allows researchers to publish open access under a CC BY or CC BY-NC-ND licence. There may be additional page charges that remain payable by the corresponding author. There is a 15% discount on core hybrid or gold APCs for articles outside of this agreement. There is nothing additional for the corresponding author to do. The 15% discount will appear at the acceptance stage of the author journey and will be clearly shown on the invoice to the author. For journal response times between submission and acceptance you should check the specific journal guidelines for accurate information.
Eligible article types:
How to submit your article for open access publishing:
The Avondale corresponding author should follow the usual article submission process via the journal's homepage.
On acceptance of the article, the publisher will ask the corresponding author to complete a form (publishing agreement).
On acceptance of the manuscript, the payment system will allow Avondale corresponding authors to choose Avondale as their institution and remove the open access fee. Articles from authors at participating institutions will be published under a CC BY or CC BY-NC-ND licence.
To comply with the Open Access policy the Avondale corresponding author will need to retain the rights to either the Published Version of Record or Author Accepted Manuscript, and deposit into Avondale Research using a CC-BY licence.
Corresponding authors must use their institutional email address when submitting an article for publication in order for the publication to be approved to be published open access with no transactional APCs.
Corresponding authors should not use personal email addresses (e.g. Hotmail, Gmail) or email addresses affiliated with other organisations.
For more information on the Springer Nature agreement please see the CAUL website. See below a quick summary of the agreement and article submission process for open access publishing.
Agreement duration: The Avondale University agreement is from 1st January 2023 - 31st December 2025 or until the annual publication cap is reached.
Summary: Springer Nature curates a large number of journals, books and databases across the science, technology, medicine, social sciences and humanities disciplines. The agreement will allow Avondale affiliated authors to publish their research open access in over 2,000 hybrid journals, across the Springer, Palgrave Macmillan and Adis portfolios and in the Academic Journals on nature.com. NB: NATURE branded journals are not part of this agreement - npj, Communications journals, Nature and Nature Research journals.
Titles included: Springer Nature Read and Publish Title List
Acceptance date: Eligible articles that have an acceptance date during the term of this agreement will be covered under the agreement.
Information for authors: See the Springer Nature website for more information. Further, Avondale University corresponding authors must use their Avondale University institutional email address (name@avondale.edu.au) to be eligible under this agreement. This agreement allows researchers to publish open access under a CC BY or CC BY-NC licence. Page and colour charges may apply. Rapid service fees not included in the agreement.
Eligible article types: Original Paper, Review Paper, Brief Communication, Continuing Education.
How to submit your article for open access publishing:
Corresponding authors must use their institutional email address when submitting an article for publication in order for the publication to be approved to be published open access with no transactional APCs.
Corresponding authors should not use personal email addresses (e.g. Hotmail, Gmail) or email addresses affiliated with other organisations.
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