Taylor & Francis Transformational agreement signed by the South African National Library Consortium (SANLiC)

SANLiC recently announced a groundbreaking three-year agreement with academic publisher Taylor & Francis (T&F) for 2024-2026. Taylor & Francis is South Africa's second-largest research publishing venue, accounting for nearly 20% of research traditionally published behind a paywall. This multi-year deal provides affordable access to scholarly information and open access (OA) publishing, supporting South African researchers in transitioning toward open-access publishing.

The agreement extends reading access to over 2,000 Open Select (hybrid) journals in the T&F Social Sciences & Humanities and Science & Technology packages. The publishing allocation will enable authors affiliated with participating institutions to publish open access in the same journals, including the Medical journals, at no additional cost. The publishing allocation is split into two parts: 37% is devoted to the UNISA and NISC journals within these packages, with the remainder allocated to all the other Open Select journals.

In addition, authors choosing to publish in the 332 of T&F’s fully open-access (gold) journals are eligible for a 10% discount on Article Processing Charges.

Authors at the University of Pretoria should seize this opportunity! Ensure your article benefits from this agreement by submitting it with a clear affiliation, including your UP- email address. When publishing an open-access article, authors are required to accept the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). Researchers will also have access to a planned editorial-led training and engagement program to empower them to maximise these open-access benefits and enhance their publishing skills.

The T&F transformational agreement is the latest addition to UP's growing collection of transformational agreements, including the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), American Chemical Society (ACS), the Company of Biologists, Elsevier (ScienceDirect), Emerald, the Royal Society of Chemistry, Springer, and Wiley.

The library's webpage provides a complete list of journal titles included in the transformational agreements. For more information on UP's transformational agreements, please visit the following page, or contact your helpful information specialist, who is there to provide support and guidance to authors throughout the process.