- 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
- 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 .
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.
- '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.
“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
- 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.
Register Orcid 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 we made with these databases below. As a result of the agreements made with these databases, our faculty members will be able to publish their articles as open access (OA) without paying the article processing charge (APC) in their publications as responsible authors.
American Chemical Society (ACS)
Quota: 5
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: 5
ACS -ANKOS website | ACS Publications | ACS Agreements Details | ACS Journals
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
2026
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.
Subjects | Agreement details | Read & Publish | Journals
Oxford Journals Online
2026
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.
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.
The journal list will be shared when it is provided by the publisher.
The national 2026 quota: 3094 articles
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.
For questions, contact the Information Center: cataloging@sabanciuniv.edu
Sabancı University Information Center aims to protect the copyright integrity of any and all kinds of printed, digital and/or audiovisual material from infringement. According to the Law on Intellectual and Artistic Property Rights, without the permission of the copyright holder, any Information Center material acquired in electronical and/or printed format cannot be
- loaned to third parties for profit
- used for a public presentation
- copied or duplicated in the same or different format by the user(s).
- Information Center is not liable for any kind of violation.
Contact Information
Our contact info for your questions or suggestions regarding copyright, fair use, plagiarism and academic integrity issues:
Mine Akkurt
0216 483 92 27
Sherpa / Romeo : SHERPA RoMEO is an online resource that aggregates and analyses publisher open access policies from around the world and provides summaries of self-archiving permissions and conditions of rights given to authors on a journal-by-journal basis.
Creative Commons Licenses
Creative Commons licenses provide an easy way to manage the copyright terms that attach automatically to all creative material under copyright. Our licenses allow that material to be shared and reused under terms that are flexible and legally sound.
This license lets others distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon your work, even commercially, as long as they credit you for the original creation.
This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work even for commercial purposes, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under identical terms.
This license lets others reuse the work for any purpose, including commercially; however, it cannot be shared in adapted form.
This license lets others remix and build upon your work non-commercially.
This license lets others remix and build upon your work non-commercially, under identical terms.
This is the most restrictive license, allowing sharing with attribution, but no modifications or commercial use.
How to apply a Creative Commons licence: You can use the Choose a licence tool.
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.
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.