Within the scope of the EKUAL (Electronic Resources National Academic License) Project carried out by TÜBİTAK ULAKBİM, the access agreement of Springer Nature's electronic journals has been transformed into the "Read & Publish" model to cover the period 2024-2026.
Institutions within the scope of EKUAL service are participants of the Transformation Agreement. Within the scope of this agreement; In line with the criteria determined by EKUAL, the opportunity to publish open access articles in Springer Hybrid journals will be provided for the period 2024-2026. With this agreement, responsible authors affiliated with our university will have the right to publish their articles open access and their fees will be covered by TUBITAK. The agreement became active as of January 1, 2024. Authors' applications will be evaluated as of this date.
Publications of the "Original Article", "Review Article" and "Continuing Education" types in the Q1 and Q2 Group Springer Nature Hybrid Journals in the Web of Science (SCI, SSCI, AHCI) will be within the scope of AE support. It will be possible to publish "Open Access" publications sent and accepted to the Springer Nature hybrid journals within the scope of which the corresponding author is an EKUAL Member, without paying the Article Processing Fee (APC), if the author wishes.
*Within the scope of the agreement in question, there is an AE article publishing quota. If the annual AE article publication quota ends, the author of the relevant publication will have to pay the APC fee himself or his funding institution if he wants to have his article published as OA.
*According to the terms of the agreement, no "OA article quota allocation" will be made for institutions. The publication of the responsible author, whose article is accepted in the journals in question, will be queued according to the order of arrival of the publication, if the author wishes, (in case there is a quota) and the articles that meet the criteria will be approved by ULAKBİM for OA publication.
*Click for the list of journals that will receive AE article publishing support (valid between 01.01.2024 and 31.12.2024). The Q1/Q2 list, which will be published in JCR on 01.07.2024, will be valid until 31.12.2025.
*It will be sufficient for the corresponding author of the publication that is in the journal group and publication type mentioned above and for which AE support will be provided in case of quota, to be an employee of the EKUAL Member institution and to have the name of the member institution mentioned under its name in the publication.
*Using corporate e-mails when applying for articles is important for the smooth functioning of AE approval processes.
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