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The University of the Western Cape , as a member of the South African National Library & Information Consortium (SANLiC) has entered into Publishing Transformation Agreements to combat the cost of publishing in and subscription to specified academic journals. The agreements attempts to combat the pay-to-publish and pay-to-read models and transform them into pay-to-publish and free-to-read or free-to-publish and pay-to-read models. The idea is to publish either for free or at a discount in journals the university subscribes to.
Transformation Agreements allow authors to publish in portfolio journals without paying any APCs (Article Processing Charges / Fees) in hybrid journals or receiving a discount for publishing in Gold Open Access journals.
Benefits of Transformation Agreements include:
- Publishing in Open Access increases readership and citation;
- Publishing charges are paid centrally;
- Transformation Agreements facilitate compliance with funder and institutional mandates;
- Most agreements include a discount on the APCs;
- Transformation Agreements are for a fixed term (1 to 3 years);
- Most agreements include Open Access publishing in Gold Open Access and Hybrid Journals
Find our more about Transformation Agreements here. An international registry of Transformation Agreements can be seen here.
American Chemical Society (ACS) - 3 year agreement (2023 to 2025) covering 75 hybrid journals.
Association for Computing Machinery Digital Library (ACM) - 3 year agreement (2021 to 2024) covering all hybrid journals and conference proceedings without paying APCs.
Cambridge University Press (CUP) - 4 year agreements (2021 to 2024) covering all hybrid and Gold Open Access journals without paying APCs
Emerald eJournals - 3 year agreement (2022 to 2024) covering over 300 journals.
IOP Science Extra - 3 year agreement (2023 to 2025). Authors may publish their article as Open Access in all Gold Open Access and hybrid journals without paying APCs. A small number of society journals have pages fees.
Oxford University Press (OUP) - 3 year agreement (2023 to 2025). Authors may publish in hybrid journals without paying APCs and receive a 10% discount for publishing in Gold Open Access journals.
Royal Society - 3 year agreement (2022 to 2024). Authors may publish in all of the listed journals without paying APCs.
Sage Premier database - 3 year agreement (2022 to 2024). Authors will pay no APCs to publish in hybrid journals and receive a 20% discount for publications in listed Gold Open Access journals.
ScienceDirect (Elsevier) - 3 year agreement (2023 to 2025). Authors may publish in journals listed under the ScienceDirect Freedom Collection without paying APCs and will receive a discount for publications in the Gold Open Access journals.
Springer - 3 year agreement (2023 to 2025). Authors can publish in all hybrid journals without paying PACs. Nature journals are excluded.
Wiley Online Library database - 4 year agreement (2022 to 2025). Authors can publishing in hybrid journals without paying APCs and from 2023 to 2025 can also publish Wiley Gold Open Access and Hindawi journals.
Further information can be found on the Researchers page of the SANLIC website.
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