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Open Access Publishing @ Wits: Publishers with Transformative Agreements

This LibGuide provides useful information about Open Access at Wits including the Wits Article Processing Charge (APC) fund, as well as Transformative OA agreements that apply to Wits authors

Publishers with Transformative Agreements

  

TA Publishers

Hybrid

Gold

No. of Jnls

Agreement Period

American Chemical Society (ACS)

Fully covered = 70

Fully covered = 10

80

2023-2025

American Institute of Physics (AIP)

Fully covered = 27

Not included

27

2025-2027

Bentham Science Publishers

Fully covered = 123

Fully covered = 37

160

2024-2026

Association of Computing Machinery (ACM)

Fully covered = 63

Fully covered = 11

74

2024-2026

Cambridge University Press (CUP)

Fully covered = 246

Fully covered = 175

421

2025-2027

Company of Biologists

Fully covered = 3

Fully covered = 2

5

2024-2026

Elsevier

Fully covered = 1812

15% discount = 38

1850

2023-2025

Emerald

Fully covered = 312

Not included

312

2025-2027

Institute of Physics

Fully covered

Fully covered

108

2023-2025

Oxford University Press (OUP)

Fully covered = 365

10% discount = 9

374

2023-2025

Royal Society

Fully covered = 8 

Fully covered = 2

10

2025-2027

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)

Fully covered = 37

15% discount = 16

53

2024-2026

Sage Publishing

Fully covered = 1030

20% discount

1030

2025-2027

Springer Nature

Fully covered = 2038

Discounted = 23

2061

2023-2025

Taylor & Francis

Fully covered = 2152

10% discount

2152

2024-2026

Wiley

Fully covered = 1280

Fully covered = 563

1843

2022-2025

                        9566

                        886

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