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Pediatrics Open Science - limited APC waiver through to June 2025

Read and publish agreements

The EMHS and SMHS Library and Information Service has an agreement with Cambridge University Press that allows articles where the corresponding authors are employed by EMHS and SMHS to be published in journals in the Cambridge University Press Medicine and Veterinary Science Collection free of any open access article processing charge (APC).

Articles accepted for publication after 1st January 2025 are eligible to be published under this agreement.

Corresponding authors must affiliate with EMHS or SMHS and use their WA Health email address when submitting an article for publication.

Look for the titles this applies to in the full list of Cambridge journals from the link below – all journals listed have been filtered in the search results with Access:Full.

The EMHS and SMHS Library and Information Service has an agreement with Wolters Kluwer that allows articles where the corresponding authors are employed by EMHS and SMHS to be published in Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins journals free of any open access article processing charge (APC).

This agreement is capped at USD $176,212 worth of APCs in 2025.

Articles accepted for publication after 1st January 2025 are eligible to be published under this agreement.

The agreement covers the following article types:

  • Research articles (including case reports)
  • Reviews

Corresponding authors must use their EMHS or SMHS affiliation and their WA Health email address when submitting an article for publication.

For details of titles included in this agreement, and a guide to publishing open access in Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins journals, see the links below.

The EMHS and SMHS Library and Information Service has an agreement with MA Healthcare that allows articles where the corresponding authors are employed by EMHS and SMHS to be published in many MA Healthcare journals free of any open access article processing charge (APC).

Articles accepted for publication after 1st January 2025 are eligible to be published under this agreement.

Corresponding authors must affiliate with EMHS or SMHS and use their WA Health email address when submitting an article for publication.

For details of titles included in this agreement see the link below.

The EMHS and SMHS Library and Information Service has an agreement with Springer Nature that allows articles where the corresponding authors are employed by EMHS and SMHS to be published in most Springer Nature hybrid journals without the need to pay any transactional open access article processing charge (APC).

This is a capped agreement that provides an allowance for 14 articles to be published OA per year in 2025 and 2026, increasing to 15 articles in 2027.

Articles accepted for publication after 1st January 2025 are eligible to be published under this agreement.

The agreement covers the following article types:

  • Original paper
  • Review paper
  • Brief communication
  • Continuing education

Corresponding authors must use their EMHS or SMHS affiliation and their WA Health email address when submitting an article for publication. 

This agreement covers most Springer, Adis, Palgrave Macmillan and Academic hybrid journals. You can browse the lists of journals below or use the Springer Journal Finder tool to discover the most appropriate journal for your work. 

WA Universities - Read & Publish Agreements

Staff who hold joint affiliations with universities may have access to university library read and publish agreements. Joint affiliation status should be recorded wherever possible (i.e. with the health service as well as with the university). WA Universities with such agreements are

BMJ Case Reports

BMJ Case Reports is an award winning journal that delivers a focused, peer-reviewed, valuable collection of cases in all disciplines so that healthcare professionals, researchers and others can easily find clinically important information on common and rare conditions. This is the largest single collection of case reports online with more than 9000 articles from over 70 countries.

 

The Library has an institutional subscription to the BMJ Case Reports that allows staff from FSH, RPH, Armadale, Rockingham, Bentley and Rockingham Hospitals to publish free of charge.

Publishing  in BMJ Case Reports will help you to:

  • Gain international recognition
  • Share your clinical experiences
  • Ease into the publishing pathway - especially useful for junior doctors
  • Contribute to a growing repository of case reports

How to publish as an institutional fellow

  • First - find your case and start writing!
  • Connect from the Library's link to the BMJ Case Reports
  • Then follow the instructions in the User Guide for EMHS and SMHS Staff.
  • Be sure to cite your institution as South Metropolitan Health Service (Fiona Stanley Hospital) OR South Metropolitan Health Services (Royal Perth Hospital) etc.
    • While this does not marry up with our HSP boundaries, we are a joint Library service and our subscription is technically contracted with SMHS. 
    • If you put EMHS your submission will be rejected as BMJ will not recognise the affiliation.
  • In order to submit your paper you will need the Institutional Fellowship membership number found in the User Guide.
  • The Fellowship only covers the publication fee but does not cover open access. 
    • See the FAQ - "Authors can choose to publish their article open access for a fee of £460 (plus VAT where applicable). Please note, this charge is separate from the annual Fellowship fee."

Good luck!