• 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

• 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 .

• arXiv.org
• BioRxiv
• Cogprints
• CORE
• OpenDOAR
• PubMed Central
• RePEc (Research Papers in Economics)
• Social Science Research Network (SSRN)

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:

• PDF
• 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.

• '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 "

Why develop a data 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.

“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

1. 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;
2. 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;
3. 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;
4. 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;
5. 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;
6. The Funders encourage governments, universities, research organisations, libraries, academies, and learned societies to align their strategies, policies, and practices, notably to ensure transparency.
7. 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;
8. 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;
9. The Funders will monitor compliance and sanction non-compliant beneficiaries/grantees;
10. 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/ 

READ & PUBLISH AGREEMENTS

Articles to be published by corresponding authors affiliated with our institution can be published as "Open Access" (OA) without paying an Article Processing Charge (APC) as a result of Read & Publish agreements.

Before submitting your application:

• The terms of the agreements vary depending on the publishers. Therefore, it is important to read the terms carefully.

• Updates may be made to agreement terms or journal lists during the year. You must check the current journal list prior to submission.

• If you have any questions regarding the agreements, you can contact us at cataloging@sabanciuniv.edu
  cataloging@sabanciuniv.edu.

Information:

In line with our university's open science strategies and publication incentive policies, the "Read & Publish Journal List", prepared to increase the impact of your scientific outputs and facilitate your publishing process, is now available.

This comprehensive Excel document accessible via Google Drive includes the following critical information:

• Current Journal List: The list of journals within the scope of our institution's "Read & Publish" agreements where you can publish without paying article processing charges (APCs). Some updates are made to the lists by publishers during the year. This list is for informational purposes only. To track changes made to the lists, please review the individual lists belonging to the publishers on this page.

• Scopus Performance Indicators: To assist you in making strategic decisions when choosing a journal to publish in, CiteScore Percentile values—which are also taken into account by our university's publication incentive system—have been added to the table. Journals with a CiteScore Percentile value of 99–90 indicate journals in the top 10% tier. Journals in the top 10% for each publisher are highlighted in red in the 'Scopus CiteScore Percentile 2024' column.

• Agreement Details and Notes: Criteria and notes to be considered for each specific publisher are presented in separate tabs.

To access the list: 2026-SU-Read_and_Publish-OA-Agreements.xlsx
2026-SU-Read_and_Publish-OA-Agreements.xlsx

*Please use your account with the @sabanciuniv.edu extension to access the list.

NOTE: According to information provided for agreements made through TÜBİTAK, journal lists may be updated during the year. Links to the journal lists provided by TÜBİTAK are shared under the headings of the respective agreements. Lists and other documents can also be accessed on the TÜBİTAK ULAKBİM subscribed databases web page.

If you have any questions, you can contact the Information Center: cataloging@sabanciuniv.edu
cataloging@sabanciuniv.edu

Articles published in ACS journals where the corresponding author is affiliated with our institution will be published as Open Access without paying an APC fee within the institutional quota. The agreement covers the years 2025–2027.

The quota allocated to our institution is 7 articles per year.

Remaining quota: 0

ACS -ANKOS website | ACS | ACS Details | Journal List

American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)

Articles published in ASME journals where the corresponding author is affiliated with our institution will be published as Open Access without paying an APC fee, with no article limit. The agreement covers the years 2025–2027.

 ASME Website| Journal List | Guide for Authors

The Read & Publish agreement with Springer Nature does not cover the BMC journal group. However, under the "Country-tiered APC pricing pilot" initiative, BMC provides a 75% discount on select journals in our country.

 Agreement Details

Under the agreement with SAGE, the SAGE Choice package covering 95% of its journals is offered. Institutional authors will pay a discounted APC rate for these journals. The discounted APC amount will be applied as 200 GBP.

Journal Scope: SAGE Choice journals consist of Hybrid journals included in the Premier package.

Exclusions: Gold OA journals are not included in this agreement.

 Agreement Details