Open access publishing

Make research accessible

Publishing open access allows content to be freely available online to anyone. You will benefit by:

reaching a wider audience
meeting funder requirements
allowing others to use, adapt and attribute your work.

Griffith University is committed to open research and supports researchers in making their work openly accessible through key pathways.

Read and publish agreements

Publish in eligible hybrid or open access journals covered by read and publish agreements. These allow immediate open access with no Article Processing Charges (APC) via the publisher's platform.

Repository deposit

Publish in a subscription-based journal and deposit the Author Accepted Manuscript (AAM) in Griffith Research Online (GRO). Submit creative research outputs directly into Creative Works.

Open access journals

Publish directly in an open access journal to allow immediate open access via the publisher's platform. Some journals don't have APC but most do. Griffith does not centrally fund APC. For externally funded research include these costs in your budget.

Read and publish agreements

Read and publish agreements support open access by covering Article Processing Charges (APC) through library-managed arrangements that combine subscription and publishing costs.

These agreements are negotiated by CAUL as a consortia. Griffith only participates in some agreements.

These agreements:

are available to Griffith staff and HDR candidates who are corresponding authors
are restricted to selected publishers
are generally limited to journal articles in subscription-based or hybrid journals
do not cover additional charges (for example, colour pages, supplementary material)
may have national publishing caps and title exclusions.

Choose an agreement

Search the CAUL list for your journal title.
Filter to Griffith University using Select your institution.
Confirm Griffith is eligible for the agreement.
Check if article caps apply and if they have been reached.
Read the Agreement details tab.
Review the Information for authors tab.
Include your Griffith email and institutional affiliation during submission.
Choose a CC BY licence.

Browse and search for journal titles across CAUL agreements.

Access the CAUL title list

Browse agreements

Check the CAULread and publish guide to view the most up-to-date information on agreements and publishing caps.

Agreements without article caps

There is no limit to the number of articles that can be published open access for eligible authors.

Agreements with article caps

A limited number of open access articles can be published each year. The total cap is shared across universities, with availability based on the order of acceptance. Once the annual limit is reached, no additional articles can be published under the agreement for the remainder of the year.

After annual caps are reached:

articles in subscription-based (hybrid) journals will be behind a paywall unless APC are paid
standard APC apply to articles made open access
If your research is subject to an open access funder mandate you must either pay the APC or deposit the article to GRO.

Common questions

Find journals covered by our agreements

Explore and filter your options using our new Griffith Read and Publish agreements (GRAPA) journal finder.

View the GRAPA journal finder

Deposit to our repositories

Submit your work to Griffith Research Online (GRO).

Ensure your outputs are discoverable by Google, Google Scholar, Research Data Australia and Trove. Deposit your:

journal articles
book chapters
conference papers
research reports
research data.

Showcase and permanently store your creative research outputs by submitting them to Creative Works. Research outputs in Creative Works receive a DOI to ensure long term accessibility and are discoverable by Google and Trove.

Griffith research repositories