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University of Cape Town Read & Publish Agreements: Springer Nature

Information for authors

Springer Nature - Springer Read & Publish  

This is a three-year transformational read and publish agreement (2023-2025) for the Springer Compact collection, which includes all hybrid and closed journals in Springer, Adis, Palgrave and Nature Academic journals but excludes the Nature Research journals and all fully open access journals.

The offer includes:

  • Read access (back to 1997) to approximately 2 424 journals.
  • Eligible authors (that is, those affiliated to participating SANLiC members) will be publish under an immediate, open access license in hybrid journals (approximately 2 260 titles) without having to pay article processing charges (APCs).

Please be advised that the annual article allowance of 1,074 articles allocated to researchers in South Africa, 13 articles allocated to Botswana, and 6 articles allocated to Namibia have been reached.

Springer has deactivated the open access no-fee publishing option for subscribing members. Authors who wish to publish open access in hybrid journals will now be invoiced for APC fees. Authors may still publish open access articles in Springer hybrid journals; however, these will no longer be covered under the agreements.

Authors can still publish in hybrid journals at no cost under other existing  UCT transformative agreements.