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).
List of current UCT Read & Publish Agreements
The UCT Libraries is participating in various Read & Publish agreements, which will 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.
Further Reading
Hinchcliffe, L. (2019, April 23). Transformative agreements: a primer. The Scholarly Kitchen.
The agreement is set up and ready to take place for manuscripts accepted beginning January 1, 2023 through December 31, 2025.
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.
This agreement builds on the previous “read only” agreement with IOP to afford researchers at subscribing SANLiC member institutions the opportunity to publish their articles on an open access basis in IOPP’s hybrid and gold open access journals.
Read access is provided to over 70 scholarly journals, including the renowned Journal of Physics series, back to 1874. 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:
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/.
An updated list of journals is available at https://academic.oup.com/pages/open-research/read-and-publish-agreements/participating-journals-and-institutions
Oxford University Press (OUP) has Read and Publish agreements with institutions and consortia around the world. They are enabling the academic publishing community to provide sustainable open access (OA) publishing in journals, without limiting author choice.
OUP’s Read and Publish agreements allow affiliated researchers at participating institutions to:
OUP’s Read and Publish agreements make open access publication simple for authors. The benefits of these agreements for authors include:
Open access (OA) is a key part of how Oxford University Press (OUP) supports our mission to achieve the widest possible dissemination of high-quality research. We work closely with our publishing partners to ensure that we offer open access in a sustainable way that supports research publications for their communities and OUP offers authors an array of publishing options for authors to make their research available to all and comply with funder mandates.
OUP’s open access publishing options include:
Hybrid journals include a mix of open access articles and articles available to those with a journal subscription.
Hybrid journals offer gold open access publishing to authors as an option. With gold open access, authors usually pay an Article Processing Charge (APC) to make their research articles available upon publication, under a Creative Commons licence with re-use rights for readers.
For articles published under a Creative Commons licence, readers can re-use the work under the terms of the applicable licence.
All articles published in fully OA journals are available to all under open licenses. OUP uses Creative Commons licenses and there is usually an APC for OA publication.
OUP has agreements with many institutions to provide access to OUP journals for faculty and students and provide funding for open access publishing for affiliated researchers. Find out which institutions are participating, and how to take advantage of available funding.
OUP has self-archiving policies that permit authors to take advantage of green open access, by depositing their accepted manuscript (i.e., the post-acceptance version, before copyediting) into a non-commercial repository, where it can become freely available after the proscribed embargo period. Find out more about OUP green OA for journals.
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.
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:
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.
Authors can publish eligible articles in a wide variety of participating Elsevier journals across a range of disciplines. When publishing in eligible hybrid journals, authors do not have to pay an article publishing charge (APC). When publishing in fully gold open access journals, authors will receive a discount on the APC.
The following article types are part of this agreement:
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:
Springer Nature Open Access License Guide
We cordially invite you to our virtual Open Access Summit for South Africa on Tuesday 28th March 2023 at 10:00 - 14:00 SAST (South Africa Standard Time)
This Open Access Summit on March 28 will cover all topics you need to know about publishing your next Open Access article by the agreement and why publishing Open Access is beneficial for your research and career. Moreover, to help you with the Publication of your next article our editorial colleague will also present a detailed explanation of the editorial review process with tips and tricks for both starters and experienced researchers. And provide you with an overview of our journal portfolio and recommendations on how to find a suitable journal for your research.
The Summit will be hosted virtually in GoTo Webinar, giving you a great opportunity to fully interact both with us and your peers.
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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.
FOR YOUR INFORMATION
A page charge is levied by some 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.
Please follow link above to a list of current hybrid journals transitioning to be fully gold Open Access titles from 2023.
Please return to this page periodically, as we will provide specific conversion dates as they become available.
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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Are you are working on research and thinking about submitting your article to a journal? Are you interested in publishing OA at no charge (via the OA agreement between our institution and Wiley)? Do you want to find out more about the workflow for your OA article? If so, please come along to the following Wiley webinar, coming up on March 10th. You will have an opportunity to hear about these topics, and ask any questions you have.
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