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University of Cape Town Read & Publish Agreements: Wiley

Information for authors

This is a four-year read and publish agreement (2022-2025). The agreement includes read access to all journals in the Wiley Database Model. For years two to four (2023-2025) eligible authors can publish in the Wiley Gold Open Access journals and Hindawi journals as well, at no cost (no article processing charges). 

Wiley-SANLiC Website

Included titles

Eligible articles

Article types

Open access publishing covered under this agreement includes the following article types:

  • Primary research and review articles, including but not limited to original articles
  • Case studies
  • Reviews
  • Short communications.

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  to be eligible to be published open access with no transactional APCs.

Information for authors continued

Page and colour charges may apply.:

A page charge is levied by some hybrid journals – if the author goes over the page limit that they impose on their articles – ie. there is a fee for the additional pages that need to be potentially printed, typeset etc. They do make this clear in their submission information on their journal page.

Going forward from June 2023 there are eliminated page and colour charges from gold journals.

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

  1. Follow the publisher's usual article submission process via the journal’s homepage.
  2. On acceptance of the article, the responsible* corresponding author selects open access, confirms the licence type (e.g. CC-BY), and indicates funder and their institutional affiliation using Wiley Author Services.
  3. The APC will be waived for authors who have 
    • used an institutional email address belonging to one of the participating institutions and
    • selected a participating institution as their institutional affiliation.

Author identification

Authors will be identified as eligible for open access publishing with no transactional APCs by their 

  • UCT institutional affiliation

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. 

Publisher notes

Further information for authors