WHAT
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.
WHY
Open access publishing makes your research outputs available globally via the publisher’s platform. This makes your findings accessible to a wider audience, including the public, industry, practitioners, government and researchers in developing countries. Open access publishing supports translation of research into practice and allows other researchers to build on your work. Your research is more visible, potentially leading to higher citation rates and more impact.
HOW
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).
Further Reading
Hinchcliffe, L. (2019, April 23). Transformative agreements: a primer. The Scholarly Kitchen.
In 2022, the UCT Libraries is participating in six R&P agreements, which will enable University of Cape Town (UCT) authors to publish accepted articles into eligible journals without any APCs. These agreements are:
Details for each of these agreements, including information for authors, can be accessed via the navigation tabs of this guide.
The 2021-2023 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) R&P agreement allows UCT authors to publish open access without costs in almost 60 journals and proceedings of this publisher without having to pay an APC. There is no limit to the number of articles that can be published.
Please visit the publisher’s website for a full list of included publications.
UCT corresponding authors may publish immediately to open access on the publisher's platform once the article has been accepted, with no transactional APCs.
To be eligible under this agreement, authors must use their institutional email address (@uct.ac.za or @myuct.ac.za ) when submitting their articles for publishing.
Author rights
The default choice when publishing within the ACM Open Agreement is for the corresponding author to use a non-exclusive CC-BY licence, unless they choose a different type of Creative Commons licence.
The author may also choose to transfer copyright or give ACM exclusive access to publish their articles.
The agreement allows authors from UCT to publish into the majority Cambridge University Press journals without the need of any transactional article processing charge or payment (APC). Further information on this agreement is available from Cambridge University Press.
Articles from UCT authors may be published under the author's choice of the following licences:
Further information about the licences is available on the publisher's website.
The Creative Commons licenses allow reuse (some with conditions) while protecting the authors' rights of acknowledgment as authors. Authors retain copyright.
Also see the Step by Step Guide to Publishing OA in Cambridge Journals.
In all correspondence with the publisher and Rightslink, UCT authors must use their:
The Read & Publish agreement with Emerald for 2022-2024 permits corresponding authors from UCT to publish a capped number of articles as OA free of charge in the gold and hybrid journals to which we subscribe.
Emerald has partnered with the SANLIC Consortium to provide participating institutions in South Africa with an agreed number of APC vouchers.
Eligibility – If you are an author based at UCT you are eligible for an APC voucher which will be allocated at the point of which your article is accepted.
Where you can use your APC voucher – Vouchers can be used for publishing in the Emerald hybrid and fully open access journals, and open access platform, Emerald Open Research.
How to use your APC voucher – When publishing in a journal, simply select the option to publish open access when submitting your article on scholar one. When publishing on Emerald Open Research, your eligibility will automatically be recognised and applied.
Always use your institutional email address when submitting your work as this enables us to recognise your eligibility.
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The Library’s agreement with SAGE allows corresponding authors from UCT to publish an uncapped number of articles as OA in SAGE hybrid titles (SAGE Choice) for free.
Open Access publishing rights, with no cost to the author in Hybrid journals within the current Premier collection (or IMechE collection for existing collection subscribers). This represents the widest coverage in terms of options for publishing OA.
Minimum of 20% discount on APCs in wholly Gold OA titles.
There are different rules for subscription (hybrid) and fully Open Access (Gold) journals under our arrangements with this publisher. Make sure that you check the publishing model of the journal before you submit.
The UCT Libraries signed the transitional agreement with the Royal Society of Chemistry for the period 2022 - 2024
The Royal Society publishes ten journals across the biological, physical, mathematical and engineering sciences. This collection includes well-renowned titles such as Philosophical Transactions, the very first scientific journal in history (1665).
Corresponding authors from institutions listed under 'Participating institutions' may publish immediately to open access on the publisher's platform once the article has been accepted, with no transactional APCs.
Articles from authors at member institutions will be published under a CC-BY license, which allows maximum reuse while protecting the authors' rights of acknowledgment as authors.
Submit your article via the following links to the publisher's submission system:
You will be recognised as being eligible for open access publishing with no transactional APCs via your institutional email address and institution name.
View the Royal Society's website for information for authors and for further information on their Read & Publish process
The 2022 Wiley R&P agreement enables UCT authors to publish immediately to open access on the publisher's platform once the article has been accepted, with no transactional APCs.
Included titles
This agreement allows UCT authors to publish open access in approximately 1,400 titles with no transactional APCs. View the full list of Wiley hybrid titles available for UCT authors to publish open access in under the agreement on the publisher’s website.
Eligible articles
Article types
Open access publishing covered under this agreement includes the following article types:
View Wiley's list of article classifications, which includes an indication of whether they are eligible for open access publishing.
Authors may publish excluded article types as “closed access” or pay an article publication charge (if applicable) to make the article open access.
Acceptance date
Articles must have an acceptance date within the duration of this agreement (2022) to be eligible to be published open access with no transactional APCs.
Responsible corresponding authors* above may publish immediately to open access on the publisher's platform once the article has been accepted with no transactional APCs. Page and colour charges may apply.
Author rights
Articles from authors at participating institutions may be published under the author's choice of the following licences:
Short video on selecting the best license for your open access publication (Wiley)
Further information about the licences is available on the publisher’s website.
The Creative Commons licenses allow reuse (some with conditions) while protecting the authors' rights of acknowledgment as authors. Authors retain copyright.
How to submit your article for open access publishing
Author identification
Authors will be identified as eligible for open access publishing with no transactional APCs by their
Responsible corresponding authors must use their institutional email address when submitting an article for publication in order for the publication to be approved to be published open access with no transactional APCs.
Responsible corresponding authors should not use personal email addresses (e.g. Hotmail, Gmail). Doing so may result in delayed approval of the article or the article may not be approved to be published open access under the terms of the agreement.
* Each article may have more than one corresponding author, but only a single designated 'responsible corresponding author' will be in charge of the administrative details for the article.
For more information on the author workflow refer to this step-by-step guide on publishing open access in Wiley hybrid journals.