Register Orcid NOTE: In agreements concluded through TÜBİTAK, according to the information provided, journal lists may be updated during the year. Links to the journal lists provided by TÜBİTAK are shared under the relevant agreement headings. It is also possible to access these lists and other documents on the TÜBİTAK ULAKBİM subscribed databases webpage.
- Open Access
- Open Data
- Open Science
- ORCID
- SU Research Database
- APC (Article Process Charging)
- Bibliometrics & Altmetrics
- Predatory Journals, Publishers and Conferences
- OA NEWSLETTERS
- Publisher Agreements
- Copyright & Fair Use
What is Open Access (OA)?
Open access (OA) means that research publications/research results are made freely available in digital form so anyone can access, read and benefit from the publication free of charge.
Benefits of Open Access :
- Free Access
- More usage / Reaching more people
- More efficient research results
- Get more citations
- Reliable and true metadata
- Long-term protection
- To access from different search engines
- Strengthening Scientific communication
- Prevention of journal prices increase
- To make usable and shareable scientific knowledge from every language
- Enhances interdisciplinary research
- Accelerates the pace of research, discovery and innovation
- Democratizes access across all institutions – regardless of size or budget
- Increases competitiveness of academic institution
Vocabulary:
- Embargo: a publisher's restrictions on how soon an article can be published in an open archive.
- Gold open access: a scientific article is published in an OA-journal with a publication fee.
- Gratis open access: publishing without charge.
- Green open access: parallel publishing of an article in a freely accessible university institutional repository.
- Hybrid open access: the author has the option to pay for making individual articles in subscription-based journals freely accessible.
- Libre open access: in addition to free access user rights, additional rights are given using Creative Commons licenses.
- Post-print: refereed version of an article, including changes.
- Pre-print: version of an article that has not yet been refereed.
Please see SU Open Science Policy .
The Open Data Handbook 's definition describes the open data in the following statement:
"Open data is data that can be freely used, re-used and redistributed by anyone - subject only, at most, to the requirement to attribute and sharealike."
Data Types & File Formats:
- HTML
- Plain text
- ZIP
- MS Powerpoint
- MS Word
- Moving images: MPEG, AVI, Quicktime
- Still images: TIFF, JPEG, PNG, GIF, BMP
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To add your research data, you can use this link and you can access your open data here Manage Deposits .
Please see SU Open Science Policy .
The OpenAIRE 's describes the FAIR Principles below:
The FAIR principles describe how research outputs should be organised so they can be more easily accessed, understood, exchanged and reused. Major funding bodies, including the European Commission, promote FAIR data to maximise the integrity and impact of their research investment.
The Four Basics of FAIR:
- 'Findable' i.e. discoverable with metadata, identifiable and locatable by means of a standard identification mechanism
- 'Accessible' i.e. always available and obtainable; even if the data is restricted, the metadata is open
- 'Interoperable' i.e. both syntactically parseable and semantically understandable, allowing data exchange and reuse between researchers, institutions, organisations or countries; and
- 'Reusable' i.e. sufficiently described and shared with the least restrictive licences, allowing the widest reuse possible and the least cumbersome integration with other data sources.
Please see " FAIR Data Managementin in Horizon 2020 "
"DMPonline" helps you to create, review, and share data management plans that meet institutional and funder requirements.
Please see " Checklist for a Data Management Plan "
- There are many benefits to managing and sharing your data:
- You can find and understand your data when you need to use it
- There is continuity if project staff leave or new researchers join
- You can avoid unnecessary duplication e.g. re-collecting or re-working data
- The data underlying publications are maintained, allowing for validation of results
- Data sharing leads to more collaboration and advances research
- Your research is more visible and has greater impact
- Other researchers can cite your data so you gain credit
All above information is provided by the Digital Curation Centre (DCC) .
Open Science provides benefits in many areas such as free and transparent sharing of research results and data using research and information technologies with the research community and public, especially increasing the visibility, traceability, efficiency and dissemination of research conducted via public resources and enhancing the productivity of scientific research system, reducing the number of duplicate research and strengthening the international bonds.
Please see SU Open Science Policy .
Plan S is an initiative for Open Access publishing that was launched in September 2018. The plan is supported by cOAlition S, an international consortium of research funders. Plan S requires that, from 2021, scientific publications that result from research funded by public grants must be published in compliant Open Access journals or platforms.
The Plan S Principles:
“With effect from 2021*, all scholarly publications on the results from research funded by public or private grants provided by national, regional and international research councils and funding bodies, must be published in Open Access Journals, on Open Access Platforms, or made immediately available through Open Access Repositories without embargo.”
*For funders agreeing after January 2020 to implement Plan S in their policies, the start date will be one year from that agreement
In addition:
- Authors or their institutions retain copyright to their publications. All publications must be published under an open license, preferably the Creative Commons Attribution license (CC BY), in order to fulfil the requirements defined by the Berlin Declaration;
- The Funders will develop robust criteria and requirements for the services that high-quality Open Access journals, Open Access platforms, and Open Access repositories must provide;
- In cases where high-quality Open Access journals or platforms do not yet exist, the Funders will, in a coordinated way, provide incentives to establish and support them when appropriate; support will also be provided for Open Access infrastructures where necessary;
- Where applicable, Open Access publication fees are covered by the Funders or research institutions, not by individual researchers; it is acknowledged that all researchers should be able to publish their work Open Access;
- The Funders support the diversity of business models for Open Access journals and platforms. When Open Access publication fees are applied, they must be commensurate with the publication services delivered and the structure of such fees must be transparent to inform the market and funders potential standardisation and capping of payments of fees;
- The Funders encourage governments, universities, research organisations, libraries, academies, and learned societies to align their strategies, policies, and practices, notably to ensure transparency.
- The above principles shall apply to all types of scholarly publications, but it is understood that the timeline to achieve Open Access for monographs and book chapters will be longer and requires a separate and due process;
- The Funders do not support the ‘hybrid’ model of publishing. However, as a transitional pathway towards full Open Access within a clearly defined timeframe, and only as part of transformative arrangements, Funders may contribute to financially supporting such arrangements;
- The Funders will monitor compliance and sanction non-compliant beneficiaries/grantees;
- The Funders commit that when assessing research outputs during funding decisions they will value the intrinsic merit of the work and not consider the publication channel, its impact factor (or other journal metrics), or the publisher.
For more information https://www.coalition-s.org/
The European Open Science Cloud promoted by the European Commission to provide all researchers, innovators, companies and citizens with seamless access to an open-by-default, efficient and cross-disciplinary environment for storing, accessing, reusing data, tools, publications and any EOSC Resource for research, innovation and educational purposes.
For further information please click EOSC Portal
ORCID @ SU
ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) is a system that provides a unique digital identifier to distinguish you from other researchers and a record that supports automatic links among all your professional activities. By getting an ORCID, you can mainly ensure that your publications and other research activities are correctly linked to you, improve the discoverability of your research and save time you spent on multiple data entry by pulling information from other sources.
Get an ORCID iD!
Click the button below to create a new ORCID iD (if you don't already have one)
and connect it to Sabancı University.
Contact
If you have questions about getting an ORCID, how it will be used by the Sabancı University, or any other related questions, please contact us at: cataloging@sabanciuniv.edu.
Find out about the advantages of having an ORCID.
Below you can find quickly answers to frequently asked questions.
"SU Research Database" is the Institutional Repository of Sabancı University. It was officially established and starts using E-prints software in 2007. After the implementation process, all data stored in archive was opened to entire world in January 2008. Since then the repository is running of successfully and evolving according to the needs of the users. The main aim of the repository is to organize and disseminates the scholarly output of Sabancı University’s members.
To login Sabanci University Research Database, you can use this link. and you can access your deposits here Manage Deposits .
You can add the following item types to SU Research Database.
- Article
- Book
- Book Review
- Book Section / Chapter
- Papers in Conference Proceedings
- Dataset
- Monograph
- Volumes Edited / Special Issues
- Working Paper / Technical Report
Our contact info for your questions or suggestions regarding SU Research Database:
Burcu Ersoy
0216 483 92 06
What is bibliometrics?
Bibliometrics is statistical analysis of publications. Bibliometric analyses are quantitative studies of publications.
You can use bibliometrics to:
- find new research areas
- provide evidence of the impact of your research outputs (for jobs, promotion or research funding)
- identify the scientific journals to be published
- identify potential research collaborators
Types of bibliometric measures:
- Citations
- H-index
- Journal metrics such as SNIP and SJR
- Google Scholar Metrics
Find bibliometric data:
- Web of Science
- Scopus
- Google Scholar
- SciVal
- Incites
- Journal Citation Reports
Predatory Journals benefit from the authors by asking them to publish them for a fee, without providing refereeing or editing services. Because predatory publishers do not follow the appropriate academic standards for publishing, they often offer a quick turnaround in the publication of an article.
To find an open-access journal to publish articles:
To find a list of potential predatory publishers:
To determine the credibility of a journal or to identify trusted journals:
Predatory Conferences are organized as legitimate scientific conferences but they do not provide proper editorial control on presentations. These conferences may be poorly organized and typically do not offer peer review, or they may not actually take place at all.
Recent data shows that predatory conferences now outnumber so-called legitimate conferences. Contrary to what most academics believe, not all predatory conferences are small, poorly-organized, and organized by fly-by-night organizations. In order to ensure that they make profits, a decent organization is usually set-up. One telltale sign of a predatory conference is that low-quality research is often presented alongside research by famous academics. However, there are various other signs as well.
For more information:
- Tips on How to Identify and Avoid Predatory Conferences : A checklist of questions to consider before registering for a conference.
- Think. Check. Attend : This organization helps researchers decide whether the conference is legitimate or not.
READ & PUBLISH (TRANSFORMATIVE) AGREEMENTS
We would like to inform you about the special agreements made with the publishers listed below.
Under the Read and Publish agreements, articles submitted by corresponding authors affiliated with our institution may be published as Open Access (OA) without paying an Article Processing Charge (APC).
Before applying:
The terms and conditions of the agreements vary depending on the publisher. Therefore, it is important to read the relevant conditions carefully.
Please note that updates to the agreement terms or journal lists may occur during the year. It is essential to check the most up-to-date journal list before submitting your application.
If you have any questions regarding the agreements, please contact us at cataloging@sabanciuniv.edu.
American Chemical Society (ACS)
Quota: 4
Publications in ACS journals with a corresponding author affiliated with our institution will be published Open Access without APC within the institutional quota. The agreement covers the years 2025–2027.
The quota assigned to our institution is 7 articles per year.
Remaining institutional quota: 4
ACS -ANKOS website | ACS Publications | ACS Agreements Details | ACS Journals
American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
2026
Under our ASME subscription, our institutional authors are entitled to publish open access without a quota limit.
ASME website | Journal List | ASME-The Author's Journey |
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
2026-2028
A Read & Publish agreement covering the years 2026–2028 has been signed between TÜBİTAK ULAKBİM and CUP.
Scope and Duration of the Agreement:
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Duration: The agreement is valid for three years, from 1 January 2026 to 31 December 2028.
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Open Access: Under the agreement, the right to publish Open Access (within the CJO “Full Package” content) is provided without quota limitations.
TÜBİTAK Open Access Publishing Support and Eligibility Criteria:
In order for corresponding authors to publish their articles as Open Access (OA) without paying an Article Processing Charge (APC), the following criteria must be met:
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Eligible Author: The Corresponding Author must be an authorized user of an EKUAL member institution.
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Institutional Affiliation: Authors are advised to use their institutional email addresses in their applications. The use of personal email addresses (e.g., Gmail, Hotmail, etc.) may cause delays in the verification process.
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Scope of the Agreement: The agreement covers unlimited OA article publishing in both Hybrid journals and Gold (fully Open Access) journals.
Retroactive Open Access Conversion:
Under the agreement, the rules regarding the retroactive conversion of articles to Open Access are as follows:
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Publications in Hybrid Journals: Articles published as closed access in Hybrid journals between 1 January 2026 and the agreement signing date (16 February 2026) may be converted to Open Access without any fee, upon the request of the author(s) (notification to ukg@ulakbim.gov.tr is required) and with the approval of TÜBİTAK ULAKBİM. No refund will be made for articles in Hybrid journals that were published as Open Access with APC payment.
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Publications in Fully Open Access Journals: No refund will be made for articles published as Open Access in Gold Open Access journals with APC payment between 1 January 2026 and 16 February 2026.
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General Conversion Right: During the contract period, articles published as “Closed” in Hybrid journals at any date may be converted to the OA model upon the author’s request, provided that the request is made within three months of publication and within the same publication year.
Agreement Details | TUBİTAK ULAKBİM | Journals | TÜBİTAK ULAKBİM Agreement Details |
INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS (IOP)
2026-2028
Within the scope of TÜBİTAK ULAKBİM EKUAL, the Read & Publish agreement signed with the Institute of Physics (IOP) covering the 2026–2028 period entered into force as of 1 January 2026.
The agreement is valid for three years, between 1 January 2026 and 31 December 2028.
Corresponding Authors affiliated with our institution may publish an unlimited number of articles as Open Access (OA) in Hybrid and Gold (fully Open Access) journals without paying an Article Processing Charge (APC).
Articles submitted as of 1 January 2026 are covered under the agreement.
IOP Science Guide | TUBİTAK ULAKBİM | Journal List | Publishing Support | Journal Finder | Video Training
Oxford Journals Online
2026
Within the scope of the EKUAL Project carried out by TÜBİTAK ULAKBİM, a “Read & Publish” agreement covering the period 2026–2028 has been signed with Oxford University Press (OUP), including both access to academic content and Open Access (OA) article publishing.
Duration: The agreement covers the period 2026–2028.
Quota: Within the scope of the agreement, there is an annual OA article publishing quota in Hybrid and Open Access (Full Open Access) journals included in the Oxford Journals Online 2026 journal collection.
2026: 400 articles
2027: 408 articles
2028: 416 articles
Special Announcement by TÜBİTAK:
“According to our bibliometric analyses and the data provided by the publisher, it is considered that the quotas within the scope of the agreement will be sufficient for articles to be published in accordance with TÜBİTAK criteria. However, if demand exceeds expectations, monthly evaluations will be conducted starting from the second half of the year. If, as a result of these evaluations, it is anticipated that the quota will not be sufficient, articles accepted in hybrid journals from a specified date until the end of the year will be excluded from the scope of support, while articles accepted in full open access (Gold/Full Open Access) journals will continue to be supported. If such a decision is made, libraries will be informed one month in advance via the EKUAL e-List.”
TÜBİTAK OA Publishing Support and Eligibility Criteria
Eligible Authors: In order for articles to be published as OA without paying an Article Processing Charge (APC), the Corresponding Author must be a member of the active academic staff of EKUAL member universities. The use of institutional email addresses is strongly recommended for verification processes.
Accepted Publication Types: OA support is only valid for publications of the following types: Research Article, Review Article, Brief Report, and Case Report.
Journal Impact Factor (Quartile) and Index Information: Regardless of impact factor, all Oxford Journals Online Hybrid and Full Open Access journals indexed in SCIE, SSCI, and AHCI are included within the scope of the agreement. Journals indexed in the WOS–ESCI category are not included in the scope of support.
Acceptance Date: The Oxford Journals Online system has been active since the agreement signing date of 27 February 2026, and articles received since this date have started to be evaluated according to the criteria. No refunds will be made for articles for which an APC payment has been made prior to this date (regardless of whether they are Hybrid or Full Open Access). Articles published as closed access in Hybrid journals between 1 January 2026 and the agreement signing date (27 February 2026) may be converted to Open Access without paying the Article Processing Charge (APC), upon the request of the author(s) (notification to ukg@ulakbim.gov.tr is required) and with the approval of TÜBİTAK ULAKBİM, provided that quota is available and the criteria are met.
An article accepted for publication by the journal will enter the queue according to the “first come, first served” rule once the author submits an application.
Depending on the journal policy, additional fees such as page charges, colour charges, submission fees, excess page charges, and offprint charges are outside the scope of the TÜBİTAK agreement. Corresponding authors must check the journal’s “Instructions to Authors” page before submitting their manuscript.
25% Discount After Quota Exhaustion: If the annual total quota is exhausted, authors may publish their articles with a 25% discount on the Open Access Article Processing Charges (APC) determined by the journal. In this case, the fee will be paid by the author. This discount is only valid for Hybrid and Full Open Access journals included in the agreement.
Anlaşma Detayları | TUBİTAK ULAKBİM | Funded OA Journal List | Author Workflow | OA Publishing Support Criteria | Author Guide
The Company of Biologists
2026
Under our Company of Biologists membership, our institutional authors have the right to publish Open Access in the “Five Journal Package” journals without any quota limitation.
Institutional e-mail addresses must be used for article submissions.
The author must be the “corresponding author” affiliated with SU.
Five journal package:
The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
2026-2028
Within the scope of the EKUAL Project carried out by TÜBİTAK ULAKBİM, access to the electronic journals of The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) has been provided as of 1 January 2026. As of 2026, both access to content and a limited number of articles are supported with APC funding under the Open Access (OA) publishing (Read & Publish) model.
Since there is a limited OA article quota under the “TÜBİTAK – RSC Read and Publish Agreement,” TÜBİTAK has determined specific criteria for articles that will receive APC support.
Criteria:
For the 2026–2028 period, the total annual OA article quotas for fully open access/Gold journals and Hybrid journals combined will be as follows:
2026: Gold + Hybrid / 255
2027: Gold + Hybrid / 260
2028: Gold + Hybrid / 260
To benefit from the agreement, the Corresponding Author must be an active member of the academic staff of our university.
Once an article is accepted by the journal and RSC’s licensing system determines that the article is eligible for Open Access publication, the process will proceed according to the “first come, first served” principle.
When an article is accepted, an OA application may only be submitted if the agreement is active. If the agreement is not active, it will not be possible to apply for OA.
Whether the agreement is active or not, if quota is not available at the time of acceptance, the APC fee will be the responsibility of the author.
Regardless of whether the journal follows the Hybrid or Gold model, when an article is accepted, if the agreement is active and quota is available, the APC fee may be covered under the agreement. For Gold journals that charge APCs, the author may submit the manuscript; however, APC support will only be provided if the agreement is in force and quota is available at the time of acceptance.
If an article accepted in a Hybrid journal can no longer benefit from the agreement, the author has the option to publish the article free of charge under closed access. In Gold journals, APC payment is mandatory.
According to the RSC journal/author system, each year’s quota operates independently, and an accepted article cannot benefit retrospectively from a previous year’s quota or from the following year’s quota.
According to the agreement terms, OA article quotas are not allocated to individual institutions.
Whether an article falls within the scope of the EKUAL agreement can only be determined through the author’s institutional email address. Therefore, if the author wishes to publish the article as OA, it is mandatory to use the institutional email address of the affiliated EKUAL member institution in the article submission form.
Before submitting an article to a journal, the author is advised to check whether the journal is Hybrid or Gold and to review the steps outlined in the “RSC Author Workflow” document.
In accordance with TÜBİTAK AYEK Decisions, if it is determined that APC support has been provided by TÜBİTAK ULAKBİM during a prohibited period to any author who is banned or whose name appears among those whose professional practice has been revoked or temporarily suspended by the Ministry of Health, or if it is determined that an article for which APC support was provided has been retracted, the corresponding author or co-authors must notify ukg@ulakbim.gov.tr
and repay the APC amount specified by ULAKBİM. Otherwise, ULAKBİM reserves the right to collect the APC amount from the corresponding author.
Details regarding the TÜBİTAK – RSC Open Access Publishing Agreement can be accessed under the heading “The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)” in the table on the EKUAL page.
Author trainings are being planned. The Author Training schedule can be accessed under the “Events” section. To obtain further information about Open Access agreements, participation in at least one author training session is recommended.
The most up-to-date information for authors can always be accessed via the link under the “guidelines for authors” and “when you are ready to publish” sections.
Agreement Details | TUBİTAK ULAKBİM | Journals | Author Guide | TÜBİTAK ULAKBİM Agreement Details
Springer Nature
2026
Within the scope of the EKUAL Project carried out by TÜBİTAK ULAKBİM, access is provided to more than 2,300 electronic journals of Springer Nature. The existing 2022–2024 Springer Nature agreement, previously a "Read-only" agreement, has been converted into a “Read & Publish” model as of January 1, 2024, covering the 2024–2026 period.
Under this second national-level “open access article publishing agreement,” all universities in Turkey will continue to have access to over 2,300 e-journals of Springer Nature. Furthermore, publications by authors from EKUAL Member institutions in Q1 and Q2 Group Springer Nature Hybrid Journals (indexed in Web of Science: SCI, SSCI, AHCI) categorized as “Original Article,” “Review Article,” or “Continuing Education” will be eligible for Open Access (OA) support.
For articles submitted to and accepted by eligible Springer Nature hybrid journals where the corresponding author is from an EKUAL Member institution, it will be possible to publish the work as “Open Access” without paying any Article Processing Charge (APC), provided the author requests it.
When the quota is exhausted, TÜBİTAK–ULAKBİM will make an announcement. Real-time quota tracking is not possible on our side.
The national 2026 quota: 3094 articles
Agreement Details | TUBİTAK ULAKBİM | Journals | TÜBİTAK ULAKBİM Agreement Details
BMC
Discount
The Read and Publish agreement with Springer Nature excludes the BMC journal collection. Nevertheless, BMC provides a 75% discount on select journals in Turkey under the "Country-tiered APC pricing pilot" scheme.
SAGE
Discount
Under the agreement with SAGE, the SAGE Choice package is offered, covering 95% of their journals. Authors from our institution will pay a discounted Article Processing Charge (APC) for these journals. The applicable discounted fee is 200 GBP.
SAGE Choice journals consist of the Hybrid journals within the Premier package. Please note that Gold Open Access (Gold OA) journals are excluded from this agreement.
WILEY
2026-2028
A Read & Publish agreement covering the years 2026–2028 has been signed between TÜBİTAK-ULAKBİM and Wiley.
Wiley Funding Criteria:
The 2026 TÜBİTAK–Wiley Open Access (OA) Account will become active as of 17 February 2026.
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Regardless of whether the journal follows the Hybrid or Gold model, the article’s submission date will not be taken into consideration for eligibility under the agreement; the decisive date is the article’s acceptance date. If the agreement is active on the acceptance date, quota is available, and the article meets the specified TÜBİTAK criteria, it will be supported under the agreement.
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To avoid misunderstandings, the “article acceptance date” refers not to the date on which the author receives the “your article has been accepted” notification from the journal, but to the date indicated under the “Accepted Date” field in the TÜBİTAK OA Account. TÜBİTAK does not intervene in the information displayed in the OA Account; all records are entered by Wiley/the journal and are automatically reflected in the TÜBİTAK OA Account.
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For journal evaluations, the Web of Science (WoS) subject categories (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI) are taken into account. For journal impact values (IF) and Quartile (Q) rankings, the WOS–JCR–Journal Impact Factor (JIF) values are used.
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Among Wiley journals indexed in Web of Science – SCIE and SSCI categories, Hybrid journals ranked Q1 and Q2 according to JCR–JIF values, as well as Gold/fully Open Access journals, are within the scope of support.
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Since AHCI journals are not assigned a JIF value in WOS–JCR and therefore do not receive a Quartile (Q) ranking, all journals within the AHCI group will be included in the scope unless a new announcement states otherwise.
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No journals indexed under WOS – ESCI are included in the support scope.
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Among Wiley publication types, “Research Article”, “Review Article”, “Data Article”, and “Rapid Publication” are eligible under the agreement.
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To benefit from the agreement, the Corresponding Author must be an active member of the academic staff of a university.
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To prevent possible misunderstandings for authors: Wiley’s website may state that there is an OA agreement between Wiley and TÜBİTAK and that OA publishing is possible in all Wiley journals under this agreement. However, due to a limited national quota and the need to use it efficiently, TÜBİTAK has specific eligibility criteria for OA article support. Therefore, before submitting to a Wiley journal, authors should consult the information, documents, and the “Funded OA Journal Lists” available on the EKUAL website rather than relying solely on the Wiley website (the journal list can also be downloaded via the “journals” link below).
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For the 2026–2028 period, OA article quotas will be allocated separately for Gold and Hybrid journals as follows:
2026: Gold/650 + Hybrid/1173; total: 1823
2027: Gold/659 + Hybrid/1196; total: 1885
2028: Gold/668 + Hybrid/1220; total: 1888
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Regardless of whether the journal follows the Hybrid or Gold model, when an article is accepted, if the agreement is active, quota is available, and the article meets TÜBİTAK criteria, the APC (Article Processing Charge) may be covered under the agreement.
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Whether the agreement is active or not, if quota is not available at the time of acceptance, the APC will be the author’s responsibility.
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In Gold journals, authors may apply for OA at the time of submission. If the OA application is skipped during submission, or if there is no quota or the agreement is inactive at that time, an application may still be made after the article is accepted. In Hybrid journals, OA application can be made after acceptance.
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If an article accepted in a Hybrid journal can no longer benefit from the agreement, the author may choose to publish the article traditionally (subscription-based access) free of charge. However, in Gold journals, as APC payment is mandatory, publication without APC is not possible.
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According to the agreement terms, OA article quotas are not allocated to individual institutions.
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Once an article is accepted by the journal and the author submits an application, it will be processed according to the “first come, first served” principle.
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An author may receive APC support for a maximum of five articles per year.
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If an author wishes to publish their article as OA, entering their institutional email address in the article submission form is important to ensure faster completion of the OA approval process.
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According to the Wiley journal/author system, each year’s quota operates independently. An accepted article cannot benefit retrospectively from a previous year’s quota or from the following year’s quota.
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When the quota is exhausted, TÜBİTAK–ULAKBİM will make an announcement. Real-time quota tracking is not possible on our side.
NOTE: For applicants planning to apply in 2026, please note that the 2025 quota was exhausted on 05 June 2025.
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Fair Use: A provision for fair use is found in the Law on Intellectual and Artistic Property Rights (Law No:5846). Under the fair use provision, a reproduction of someone else's copyright-protected work is likely to be considered fair if it is used for teaching, scholarship and research. If the reproduction is for one of these purposes, a determination as to whether the reproduction is fair use must be made based upon a factor "the amount and substantiality of the portion used". Fair use is an ambiguous concept and the law does not state exactly what uses of a copyrighted work will be considered fair uses under the law and also there is no regulation which can be applied. An assessment about fair use can be made regarding the applications in Turkey, EU and The USA. And to minimize the risk of copyright infringement Information Center interprets the following situations as fair use:
- lecture notes, exam questions or materials prepared by instructors,
- only one article from an issue of a journal,
- one chapter or 10% from an information resource, (the format changing is not accepted)
- link information of the electronic resource,
- 10% percent of movies (discussion is continuing and there is no consensus)
Plagirism: According to Oxford English Dictionary plagiarism means "The action or practice of taking someone else's work, idea, etc., and passing it off as one's own; literary theft." To avoid plagiarism, the work of another person must be cited whenever you use it.
Turnitin is used at Sabanci University to avoid plagiarism. (For more information about the Turnitin program, please contact the Information Technology department.)
Academic Integrity Statement : As mentioned in Academic Integrity Statement, during the process of academic labor, it is a sine qua non rule of academic ethics to accurately and clearly refer to each source of inspiration and information, wherever and whenever applicable. When students and educational staff are preparing materials, all types of information & information sources are used in accordance with intellectual property and commercial rights and the copyright holder is respected. Sources are not reproduced, copied, altered to another format or rented, nor are others allowed to carry out such acts.