Access policy

Open access at the MJA

The Medical Journal of Australia (MJA) is committed to providing open access to its content. Open access ensures that:

  • authors retain copyright and have control over the distribution of their article with a Creative Commons license.
  • authors can thus fully comply with funder requirements for open access, including those of the National Health and Medical Research Council, the Medical Research Future Fund and the Australian Research Council.

Repository-based open access

Authors may immediately deposit the final version of an open access article in an online repository or institutional or personal website following publication. For non-open access articles, authors may deposit the author-accepted version after 12 months.

Journal-based open access

This option is made available through the MJA’s publishing partner, Wiley. Articles are made openly available via Wiley Online Library and on the MJA website.

Authors can also immediately post the final, published PDF (version of record) of their article on a website, institutional repository, or other free public server.

Articles will be automatically submitted to PubMed Central and PMC mirror sites, when appropriate.

Responsible corresponding authors currently affiliated with specific institutions can publish open access with no article publication charges (APCs), as part of an agreement negotiated by the Council of Australian University Librarians with Wiley. 

See here for the list of institutions.  

Authors whose institutions are not participating in the Wiley agreement need to pay an article publication charge (APC) of US$3910 for journal based open access. Costs correct as of April 2026. 

Please contact your institution’s library if you have any questions.

All articles related to Indigenous health  are made freely available to all at no cost even if authors are not eligible for open access costs to be covered as above.

Australian Medical Association (AMA) members receive the Journal and have full online access to all MJA articles via Wiley Online Library. If you are an AMA member, you can find more information in the membership area of the Federal AMA website. For support, please contact the AMA directly, on 02 6270 5400 or memberservices@ama.com.au.