Library: Staff Publications

• SCGOPHCG staff can publish as institutional fellows.  
• Access the User Guide for the Institutional Fellowship number to submit your paper. See also author instructions for further information.
• BMJ Case Reports delivers a focused, peer-reviewed collection of cases in all disciplines so that healthcare professionals can find clinically important information on common and rare conditions.

OA publishing agreement with the Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Australia 

If you are affiliated with the Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital you can publish your article Open Access (OA) - at no cost to you - in gold and hybrid journals. In addition, you can enjoy access to Cambridge University Press journals content.

Easily check your eligibility to publish OA under this agreement, and the journals available to you, by using our eligibility checker tool. 

To be eligible, articles must:

• Have a corresponding author affiliated with Sir Charles Gairdner Osborne Park Hospital.
• Be original research – eligible article types are research articles, review articles and rapid communications, brief reports and case reports.
• Be accepted for publication in a Cambridge University Press journal covered by the agreement.
• Be accepted for publication from 1 January 2024.

SCGOPHCG, E/SMHS, Graylands / PS, PCH / CAHS Library and Information Service have an agreement with SpringerNature that allows authors employed by these organisations to publish their articles in 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 in OA journals 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 SCGOPHCG 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 (see link to list of included titles below).

• Springer Nature Publishing - Titles List A-F

• Springer Nature Publishing - Titles List G-L

• Springer Nature Publishing - Titles List M-Z

Check out SCGOPHCG hospital library Research page for information about research identifiers and managing your online research profile.

Sir Charles Gairdner Osborne Park Hospital has a national and international reputation for ground-breaking Research.

Research Publication Grant Program

The Department of Research, funded by Charlies Foundation for Research, are excited to announce the release of a Research Publication Grant program to support funding of research publications.

The Research Publication Grant program is designed to support researchers who have conducted research at a SCGH or OPH site and supports the publication of research in academic journals. This funding is targeted for early to mid-career researchers up to 10 years postgraduate employment (excluding career breaks). Due to the nature of the funds the following eligibility criteria are required:

• Only SCGOPHCG research projects can be supported.
• You will need to provide a valid Research Governance Service (RGS) number.
• You will need to pay the publication fee and then request reimbursement by providing a receipt of payment with researcher’s name. Evidence / proof of payment up front is required.
• Any gaps in costs of the publication need to be self-funded by the researcher.
• SCGOPHCG researchers should be the first or last author and/or the corresponding author (senior author) on the paper.
• You will need to ensure that ‘SCGOPHCG' is listed as an affiliation.
• If funding is approved prior to publication, then the article must acknowledge the funding support from the Charlies Foundation for Research.
• Only 1 application will be funded per researcher.

To apply, please do so online via this link.