The Library and Information Services (LIS) is also working on transformative agreements:
Transformative agreements are those contracts negotiated between institutions (libraries, national and regional consortia) and publishers that transform the business model underlying scholarly journal publishing, moving from one based on toll access (subscription) to one in which publishers are remunerated a fair price for their open access publishing services.
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Each transformative agreement we make will be added here, with information on what the agreement includes, e.g. how many articles' fees are included for our authors, or if there are any other restrictions. To benefit from these agreements, use your UFS email address when submitting your work to participating publishers. Make sure you indicate the UFS as your primary institutional affiliation.
- American Chemical Society (ACS) - UFS affiliated authors have unlimited open access publishing in the ACS hybrid journals. See a full title list.
- Cambridge University Press - All authors who publish with CUP will get a waiver for APCs on fully open access and hybrid open access titles. When you submit your article to CUP, request the waiver and the Library will get a notification. Once the Library approves the request, your waiver is applied. See a full title list.
- Elsevier - see ScienceDirect.
- Emerald - First come, first served basis for 111 articles in 2022. This deal is for all SANLIC members. See a full title list.
- IEEE - The LIS has a deposit account with IEEE to help pay APCs on your behalf.
- IOP Publishing - UFS affiliated authors can publish open access at no cost. See a full title list. Take a look at IOP's transformative agreements hub to guide you through the process.
- Oxford University Press Journals - UFS affiliated authors can publish in OUP's hybrid journals without paying APCs, and there is a 10% discount on APCs for publishing in OUP's gold open access titles. See a full title list.
- SAGE - Allows eligible corresponding authors to publish an uncapped number of articles as open access in the offered hybrid titles within the current Premier collection, and a discount on APCs for SAGE's 150+ pure Gold Open Access journals. Visit SAGE's Open Access Portal for detailed information. See a full title list.
- ScienceDirect - UFS affiliated authors can publish their articles open access in hybrid titles without paying APCs. See a full title list.
- Springer, Adis, Nature Academic, Palgrave Macmillan - UFS affiliated authors can publish their articles open access in the hybrid titles without paying APCs. A list of eligible journals.
- Taylor & Francis - First come, first served basis for all SANLIC members. Free of article processing charges for select hybrid journals (see the full title list) and 10% discount on fully open access journals.
- Thieme Open - Thieme Chemistry and Medical packages – authors from subscribing institutions are granted a 25% discount on article processing charges (APCs) for open access articles published in Thieme hybrid journals.
- Wiley - First come, first served basis for all SANLIC members. See a full title list.
