Read and Publish (Transformative) Agreements

Introduction

 

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 sort from oldest to newest.
  1. American Chemical Society (ACS)     
  2. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)                                                        
  3. Cambridge University Press (CUP)
  4. The Royal Society Publishing
  5. Karger Publishers
  6. The Company of Biologists       
  7. Institute of Physics (IOP)     
  8. The Electrochemical Society (ECS) Digital Library         
  9. Mathematical Sciences Publishers (MSP) Journals 
  10. Oxford Journals Online (OJO)
  11. Wiley
  12. Springer Nature
  13. SAGE


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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


 
American Chemical Society (ACS)


A three-year agreement covering the years 2022, 2023 and 2024 was signed with American Chemical Society (ACS). Within the scope of this agreement, Bilkent University members will not pay Article Processing Fee for open-access articles to be published in ACS journals.
Full-text access is provided to journals published by the American Chemical Society in the field of chemistry and related disciplines. Also, the platform includes archive of the journals beginning from 1879. The current number of journals is 78, 12 of which are open-access.
 
! There is a national and institutional quota for open-access publication in the ACS journals.
-Bilkent University has 11 tokens for 2024.
-All Bilkent members have 1 open-access publication right.
-Bilkent authors who contribute to multi-author articles will be deemed to have used their 1 right.
*Remaining tokens: 2

Summary: 
  • The corresponding author should be a Bilkent University author and an institutional e-mail address (@bilkent.edu.tr) should be used during submission.
  • Institutional affiliation should be stated in the body of the manuscript.
  • Articles must have an acceptance date that falls within the period of the current agreement. (2022-2024).
  • All papers will be published with a CC-BY license.
  • More information and instructions can be found on the ACS website.
Which ACS journals are included in this agreement?​ 
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Eligibility: Bilkent University corresponding authors.



Find below the steps to publish open access under ACS Read & Publish Agreement, once your article is accepted:

Step 1: Once your article is accepted, you will receive an email to complete the Journal Publishing Agreement (JPA).
  •  “Yes I wish to publish Open Access” option should be selected to complete the JPA signing process.
  • “Order Open Access” link provided after you sign the publishing agreement should be followed.