Read and Publish agreements, sometimes called transformative agreements are changing the business model of scholarly journal publishing. The separate costs of a subscription to read articles and the Article Processing Charge (APC) to publish articles are brought together under a single agreement—to drive the transition of journal publishing towards open access of the version of record. Read and Publish agreements provide authors with the opportunity to publish via open access immediately on acceptance without the need for additional payment of transactional Article Processing Charges (APC). The process to do this is typically part of the publisher's standard acceptance workflows that authors follow.

Bilkent University Library has entered into Read & Publish agreements with the following publishers:

The list is sorted alphabetically.

1. American Chemical Society (ACS) 
2. American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
3. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
4. Biochemical Society Journals                                                        
5. Cambridge University Press (CUP)
6. The Company of Biologists 
7. De Gruyter
8. The Electrochemical Society (ECS) Digital Library   
9. Institute of Physics (IOP)    
10. Mathematical Sciences Publishers (MSP) Journals
11. Oxford Journals Online (OJO)
12. Royal Society Chemistry (RSC)
13. The Royal Society Publishing
14. SAGE
15. Springer Nature
16. Wiley

Important Notice: Fees not covered by the above-mentioned agreements—such as those for open access publications that fall outside the scope of agreements with article quotas or specific criteria, as well as fees for articles whether open access or not published in the journals of publishers with whom our university does not yet have an agreement—are also eligible for academic publication support. For details, please refer to this page.

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For queries about read & publish agreements, please get in touch with your Faculty Librarian.

Any further agreements or details will be added to this page when available.


Researcher Profiles and IDs
The Library recommends that Bilkent faculty members create researcher profiles. Setting up researcher profile IDs on platforms such as ORCID, Scopus, Web of Science, and Google Scholar offers significant benefits for researchers. These platforms enhance academic visibility, facilitate citation tracking, showcase publications, and overall, help bolster the researcher's impact in their field.

You can visit the Library’s Researcher Profiles and IDs page to find information on how to set up these profiles. If you have further questions or need assistance in setting up these profiles, please contact: facultylibrarians@bilkent.edu.tr