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How to identify predatory publishers
Find the full article from 'How to Identify Predatory Publishers' page at UCT Libraries website.
2025 DHET Accredited Journals List
2024 DHET Accredited Journals List
This agreement allows UCT researchers to publish Open Access articles on a selected journals without paying Article Processing Charges. There are conditions to benefit from this agreement and that includes:
2025 List of journals included in the UCT Read & Publish Agreement with Publishers (Excel spreadsheet)
The spreadsheet have worksheets dedicated to each publisher.
The all combined worksheet have all included journals listed.
Please note the colour codes in the spreadsheet.
If the journal that you are considering to publish in is not covered by the Read & Publish agreement and you still want to publish open access, UCT have a Research Publication Grant on a first come first serve basis. You can apply to this fund after you publication is accepted and this is managed by UCT Research Support Hub (Research Office).
UCT have now Read & Publish Transformative Agreement (R&P) with 14 publishers. The R&P agreement allows a UCT researcher to publish Open Access free of the Article Processing Charges (APCs) for list of selected journals.
Here are few points to make sure a UCT researcher benefits from the R&P agreement:
Please access the latest list of journals for the year 2025 from the link below.
To avoid ambiguity, some of the journals are colour coded as they have some form of APC payment. Here are the descriptions:
UCT Research office have a limited publication grant for accepted publications on first come first serve basis. Please check with UCT Research Support Hub website, they have provided relevant information in the Research Publication Grant page (Funding & Contracts).
If a journal article is not available at UCT libraries. You can request it via InterLibrary Loans from another library.
A journal is like an academic magazine where researchers have written articles about their research findings. A journal is a collections of articles written by different authors. It is published on a regular basis and reports current research within a subject area.
At UCT Libraries we have journals in both print and electronic format. To find journals, use Journal Search in Primo.
What is the difference between a book and a journal article?
A book is a longer, and a usually more comprehensive text on a subject.
Journal articles are shorter, and more focused on specific topic. They are published more frequently and so have more up-to-date information than books do.
Why use journals?
They are usually more up to date than books.
As most of them have been checked by other peer researchers (i.e. peer reviewed), they are more reliable than general web articles and newspaper articles.
They are shorter to read than books.