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Taylor & Francis workshop “Avoiding Rejection: how to successfully navigate the publishing process”
Date: 25 March 2025
Time: 10:00-11:30 SAST
Speaker: Victoria Babbit, Director of Researcher Development & Outreach at T&F.
Each year millions of articles are rejected by journals. This workshop will discuss some of the main reasons for articles being rejected and provide tips for avoiding that fate. Journal selection, open access publishing, how to avoid predatory publishers, manuscript preparation, publishing ethics, and the peer-review process will also be included.
Read & Publish agreements are a form of transformative agreement with a publisher that takes the library’s existing expenditure on subscriptions and repurposes it to cover both reading and publishing in that publisher’s journals. If you publish in a journal that’s included in one of the Read & Publish agreements, you may be able to publish direct to open access with no transactional article processing charges. Author publishing workflow. You don’t need to change your publishing practices. Submit where you would normally submit your research and you’ll be notified on acceptance if you are eligible to publish your article open access with no transactional APCs (Article Processing Charges).
The UCT Libraries is participating in various Read & Publish agreements, which enable University of Cape Town (UCT) authors to publish accepted articles into eligible journals without any APCs. The current agreements are:
American Chemical Society Association for Computing Machinery Cambridge University Press Elsevier ScienceDirect Freedom Collection Emerald Institute of Physics Oxford University Press Sage Springer Nature Taylor & Francis The Royal Society Wiley