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University Of Cape Town Current Read & Publish Agreements

The Read & Publish agreements give the University of Cape Town access to journal content and allow authors to publish articles Open Access.

UCT Read & Publish Agreements

Read & Publish Agreements: Information for Researchers

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).

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:

Details for each of these agreements, including information for authors, can be accessed via the navigation tabs of this guide.

American Chemical Society

This is a three-year read and publish agreement (2023-2025) for the ACS All Publications package. The agreement includes continued read access to over 75 journals in the ACS All Publications package as well as unlimited open access publishing in the ACS hybrid journals.

Number of included articles: there is no limit on the number of articles that can be published open access in the ACS hybrid journals. For gold open access journals (the ACS Au journals), a flat $3 000 article processing charge (APC) applies. The exception is ACS Omega, for which the APC is already heavily discounted

Association for Computing Machinery

ACM Publishing Workflow

The 2024-2026  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.

Information for Authors

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.

Publisher FAQ’s

Publisher’s Guide for Open Access Authors

Cambridge University Press

CUP Publishing Workflow

2021-2024  Read & Publish deal.  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.

Cambridge University Press journals

Content

Cambridge’s Full Journals Collection has expanded to 403 titles, of which 330 are hybrid and 40 are gold OA. For this agreement with SANLiC, subscribing institutions will not only receive access to all CUP journals included in the Full Collection, but will also benefit from unlimited OA publishing for affiliated corresponding authors in CUP’s hybrid and fully open access journals over the period of the agreement. A small number of journals (33)  in the CUP collection do not offer open access publishing. More information on this agreement is available here: https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/open-access-policies/read-and-publish-agreements/oa-agreement-sanlic

Information for Authors

Author rights

Articles from  UCT authors  may be published under the author's choice of the following licences:

  • CC-BY
  • CC-BY-SA
  • CC-BY-ND
  • CC-BY-NC
  • CC-BY-NC-SA
  • CC-BY-NC-ND.

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 CUP’s usual article submission process via the journal’s homepage on Cambridge Core.
  2. On acceptance of the article, CUP will ask the corresponding UCT  author to complete a form (publishing agreement).
  3. The corresponding author selects Gold Open Access and confirms the licence type (i.e. CC-BY).
  4. Rightslink works on the publisher's behalf to manage the APCs. When the  submitting author is from UCT, the APC will be automatically waived.

Also see the Step by Step Guide to Publishing OA in Cambridge Journals.

Author identification

In all correspondence with the publisher and Rightslink, UCT authors must use their:

  • Institutional postal address
  • Institutional email address
  • ORCID.

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Emerald

Emerald Publishing Workflow

The Emerald/SANLiC agreement for 2022-2024 is a Read & Publish transformational open access agreement that provides read access to the latest version of your subscriptions as well as permitting eligible corresponding authors affiliated to subscribing institutions to publish a capped (limited) number of articles as open access at no extra charge in Emerald’s hybrid and diamond open access journals.

 

Information for Authors

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.

ElsevierScienceDirect Freedom Collection

This is a three-year (2023-2025) read and publish agreement with Elsevier for the ScienceDirect Freedom Collection.

The offer includes capped open access publishing in hybrid journals in the Freedom Collection at no extra cost to authors (that is, there are no article processing charges).

Gold open access titles: eligible corresponding authors will receive a discount of 15% on Elsevier’s gold open access portfolio of titles.

How does the process work?

The process of publishing under the agreement is straightforward:

  • Step 1 – Once the journal accepts your article, you will receive an email containing a link to the “post acceptance author journey”.
  • Step 2 – You will be asked to review your affiliation and funder details. Based on this information, you will see personalised publishing options including the option to publish under the agreement.
  • Step 3 – You will confirm your publishing choices and complete the post acceptance journey.
  • Step 4 – Your institution will validate your eligibility for the agreement
  • Step 5 – You and your co-authors will receive an email to confirm that the APC will be covered by the agreement. Please note that the number of APCs included under the agreement is fixed and will be allocated based on date of acceptance.

During the submission process, the system will present you with personalised publishing options including any agreement or offer that you may be eligible for. You can indicate your publishing choice during submission, but you are not required to finalize your choice until after acceptance.

View the publishing journey video

The following article types are part of this agreement:

 

  • Case reports
  • Data in Briefs
  • Full-length articles
  • Micro-articles
  • Original software publication
  • Practice guidelines
  • Protocols
  • Review articles
  • Replication studies
  • Short communications
  • Short surveys
  • Video articles

IOP Science

This is a three-year read and publish agreement (2023-2025). Read access is provided to over 70 scholarly journals as well as unlimited open access publishing in the IOP’s hybrid and gold open access journals.

Number of included articles: There is no limit on the number of articles that can be published open access in IOP’s hybrid and gold OA journals. However, there are a few titles where the IOP is contractually prevented from offering open access publishing.

Subjects covered include biomedical engineering, condensed matter, graphene, materials, nanotechnology, quantum information and semiconductors in the fields of astronomy, astrophysics, biological physics, chemistry, engineering, environment, mathematics, physics, and medical physics.

Added content for 2023:

  • Electronic Structure
  • Progress in Energy
  • Progress in Biomedical Engineering

 

Open access policy: IOP Publishing supports open science and open access to scientific research. A list of their fully open access journals is available here: https://publishingsupport.iopscience.iop.org/questions/gold-open-access-journals/.

Oxford University Press

The OUP/SANLiC agreement for 2022-2024 is a Read & Publish transformational open access agreement that provides read access to the 2023 OUP Full Collection as well as permitting eligible corresponding authors affiliated to subscribing institutions to publish an uncapped (unlimited) number of articles as open access at no extra charge in OUP’s hybrid journals.

Includes unlimited publishing in hybrid journals and a 10% discount on article processing charges (APCs) in OUP’s gold open access journals. Information on this agreement is available here.

 

SAGE

SAGE Publishing Workflow

This is a three-year (2022-2024) read and publish agreement that provides access to the SAGE Premier journals collection of over 1,100 titles and permits eligible corresponding authors to publish an uncapped number of articles as open access in the offered hybrid titles listed in the SAGE-SANLiC agreement.

Gold open access titles: eligible corresponding authors will receive a discount of 20% on SAGE’s wholly gold open access portfolio of titles. There are a few exclusions where SAGE is contractually prevented from offering this discount. A list of excluded journals is available from the publisher.

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 Library’s agreement with SAGE 

SAGE hybrid titles (SAGE Choice)

 

Springer Nature

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).

 

 

 

Taylor & Francis

This is a three-year read and publish agreement (2024-2026). The agreement includes read access to all Open Select (hybrid) journals in the Social Sciences & Humanities (SSH) and Science & Technology (S&T) packages. 

Taylor & Francis have a dedicated page for this agreement on their website: https://www.tandfonline.com/openaccess/members/south-african-national-library-information-consortium

 

The Royal Society

Royal Society Publishing Workflow

This is a three-year (2022-2024) read and publish agreement. Subscribing institutions have read access to the titles included in the package to which they subscribe and authors affiliated to subscribing institutions can publish an unlimited number of articles open access in both hybrid and gold open access journals.

Number of included articles: there is no limit on the number of articles that can be published open access in the Royal Society’s hybrid and gold open access journals.

If an author chooses open access, for relevant journals the Royal Society will deposit the article in PubMedCentral. The author also benefits from a liberal licensing and re-use policy through Creative Commons licence CC-BY 4.0

 

Useful videos and an editorial webinar, “Understanding the publishing process” can be viewed here: Videos: librarian video | author video | Read&Publish

Editorial Webinar: Understanding the publishing process

 

 

Information for Authors

Information for authors

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. 

Author rights

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.

How to submit your article for Open Access publishing

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

Wiley

Wiley Publishing Workflow

This is a four-year read and publish agreement (2022-2024). 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

 The list of Hindawi journals is available here: https://www.hindawi.com/journals/

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 (2022) to be eligible to be published open access with no transactional APCs.

Information for Authors

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.

Wiley-SANLiC Website

Author rights

Articles from authors at participating institutions may be published under the author's choice of the following licences:

  • CC-BY
  • CC-BY-NC
  • CC-BY-NC-ND

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. 

 

* 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.

 

FOR YOUR INFORMATION

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.



Hello from Wiley!  

I want to inform you of Wiley’s hybrid open access journals that will become fully gold open access journals on 1 January 2025We remain committed to growing our open access portfolio and collaborating with our society partners to facilitate these transitions. This year demanded a particularly careful and measured approach as we merged the Hindawi portfolio into our ownFrom 2025 onward, we anticipate more journals switching to gold open access. 

The chart below shows the "Date of Conversion," which is the date when new submissions to the journal will have to pay an Article Publication Charge (APC) if they are accepted for publication. However, for hybrid only transformational agreements, articles must be submitted before the dates listed below in the "Date of Conversion" column for each respective journal. All three journals will transition to fully gold on 1 January 2025
 

Journal Title 

Publisher 

Date of Conversion 

APC List Price (USD) 

Functional Ecology 

Wiley 

16 July 2024 

$2,900 

Learned Publishing 

Wiley 

*August 2024 

$2,080 

Financial Planning Review 

Wiley  

*TBC 2024 

No APC  

(flipping to diamond OA)  

*These dates will be defined soon. Visit this page to keep track of exact conversion dates.

 Financial Planning Review is changing to diamond open access. This means that publishing open access has no APC, and there is no content behind a paywall - a big positive for authors and researchers.  

Wiley Researcher Academy

Wiley is offering an extensive author engagement programme that will be available soon for your entire institution. In addition, for the duration of the SANLiC-Wiley agreement, Wiley are also offering unlimited access to the Wiley Researcher Academy to everyone at your institution.

What is the Wiley Researcher Academy? It is a self-paced, online programme amounting to over 60 hours of learning.  It equips researchers, including graduate students, to meet the challenges they face in the publishing process – with any publisher, not just Wiley. 

 

 

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