The read and publish agreements with major publishers are now in place for 2026. These waive the article processing charge (APC) to make articles open access for many of the publishers’ journals. A summary of the major new agreements is below. We recommend you also look carefully at the suggestions and details of each publisher on read and publish agreements. Gold refers to journals where all articles are open access. Hybrid journals have some subscription/paywalled articles and some open access articles. Caps are a limit on the number of articles waived under the agreements, and may be reached well before the end of the year. Elsevier (Science Direct) Uncapped hybrid publishing excluding gold. The 15% discount on...Read more
Update 16 December 2025 Full access to ScienceDirect ejournals will now continue into 2026, following an in-principle agreement between Elsevier and CAUL. You can read more about the agreement at In-principle agreement reached with global...Read more
Wiley is changing how they provide access to textbooks. Ebook versions may not be available. Wiley are moving their e-textbooks to a subscription-only model for libraries. This means we would pay every year for access to their entire...Read more
In July, Massey’s first ever open educational resource (OER) was published with support from the Library: Critical Health Psychology: Foundations, Approaches and Applications https://oercollective.caul.edu.au/critical-health-psychology/...Read more
A new and improved Library room booking system was launched on 23 June 2025. The new booking system offers a more modern and mobile-friendly experience when you make your booking while visiting one of our campus libraries, or booking online through...Read more
Google Scholar is a great search tool, and it’s even better when you link it to Massey so you get more free articles. Link Google Scholar to Massey Library to get free access to the articles we have subscriptions for, instead of being...Read more
Some of the Library’s 2025 read and publish agreements will stop waiving the article processing charges (APCs) well before the end of this year, so plan carefully if you would like to make your article open access through this scheme...Read more
Discover, the Library search tool, has a new AI-powered ‘natural language’ search option. This means you can enter a phrase or question rather than the keywords we usually recommend for an effective search. You do not need to...Read more
Discover was upgraded in January 2025, and some custom folders didn’t transfer across. If you would like them back, you can export them from “old” Discover and then build them again in “new” Discover. Please follow...Read more
We now have full text access to many international theses in all disciplines, and several other databases have also been updated. We’ve upgraded from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (which had only abstracts and previews), to...Read more
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