Publisher Agreements

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

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Under our ASME subscription, our institutional authors are entitled to publish open access without a quota limit.

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The “Read and Publish” agreement with Cambridge University Press (CUP), which began in 2024, will continue through 2026.

Under this agreement, Sabancı University affiliates will not be required to pay any Article Processing Charges (APC) for articles published in Hybrid and Gold Open Access journals. 

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Corresponding authors will be able to publish an unlimited number of open access articles in the Hybrid journals within the Oxford Journals Online 2026 Journal Collection, without paying any Article Processing Charges (APC) for the following publication types: “research article, review article, brief report, and case report.”

*Depending on the journal's policy, additional fees such as page charges, color charges, submission fees, excess page charges, and offprint charges are excluded from the Read & Publish agreement. Corresponding authors must check the journal’s “Instructions to Authors” page before submitting their manuscript.

New Hybrid Journals joining the 2026 Oxford Journals Online collection are included in the R&P agreement.

A 25% APC discount will be applied to publications in fully Open Access journals.

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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.

The journal list will be shared when it is provided by the publisher.

The national 2026 quota: 3094 articles

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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.

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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.

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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. 

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• No journals indexed under WOS – ESCI are included in the support scope.

• Among Wiley publication types, “Research Article”, “Review Article”, “Data Article”, and “Rapid Publication” are eligible under the agreement.

• To benefit from the agreement, the Corresponding Author must be an active member of the academic staff of a university.

• 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).

• 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

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• According to the agreement terms, OA article quotas are not allocated to individual institutions.

• 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.

• An author may receive APC support for a maximum of five articles per year.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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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