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Cambridge University Press (CUP) Open Access Publishing Agreement

Agreement duration: The UNSW agreement is from 1 January 2026 - 31 December 2026. A previous one-year agreement was in place during 2025.

Acceptance date:Eligible articles that have an acceptance date during the term of this agreement from 1 January 2026 - 31 December 2026 are eligible to be published open access.

Summary:Cambridge University Press (CUP) is the academic and bibles publisher of Cambridge University Press & Assessment. CUP publishes more than 420 peer reviewed academic journals covering subjects across the humanities, social sciences and science, technology and medicine. This agreement allows UNSW affiliated authors to publish openly across hybrid and fully open journals. The agreement also allows uncapped publishing.

Titles included: 2026 CUP title list , journals which offer an OA Publishing option. Several journals (not included in title list) are excluded from this agreement as they do not yet have open access publishing options.

Information for authors:Eligibility depends on the article's corresponding author affiliating with UNSW. In most cases, articles are only eligible if UNSW is the corresponding author's primaryaffiliation in both the publishing system and in the article itself. UNSW corresponding authors must use their UNSW institutional email address (name@unsw.edu.au) to be eligible under this agreement and to help verify affiliation. All current UNSW researchers including HDR candidates are eligible.

Articles may be published under the authors' choice of CC BY, CC BY-SA, CC BY-NC, CC BY-NC-SA, CC BY-ND or CC BY-NC-ND licenses. These licenses allow reuse (some with conditions) while protecting the authors' rights of acknowledgment as authors. Authors retain all rights as per the CC license.

For journal response times between submission and acceptance corresponding authors should check the specific journal guidelines for accurate information

Page charges: May be charged.

Eligible article types: Research, Case Report, Brief Report, Review or Rapid Communications format article.

Sharing via repositories:This agreement aligns with UNSW's Open Access policy however, there is no automated loading to UNSWorks.

How to submit your article for open access publishing:

In all Cambridge University Press, Ironclad, and Rightslink systems and correspondence, authors must use their UNSW email and postal address. This helps ensure recognition of UNSW affiliation.

Follow CUP's article submission workflow via the journals homepage on Cambridge Core. Further details can be found on Cambridge's step-by-step guide (PDF).
The submitted article will go through thorough peer review.
On acceptance of the article, the corresponding authormust complete an author publishing agreement as required by the Cambridge OA Journal publishing the Article, selecting a Creative Commons Licence in the process.
To comply with the Open Access policy the UNSW corresponding author will need to retain the rights to either the Published Version of Record or Author Accepted Manuscript, and deposit into UNSWorks using a CC BY licence.

Corresponding authors should not use personal email addresses(e.g. Hotmail, Gmail)or email addresses affiliated with other organisations, research centres or institutes.Otherwise they may be ineligible under the terms of this agreement.

For any queries about this open access publishing agreement please use this short form.