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Transformative agreements

Transformative agreements are contracts negotiated between institutions and publishers that transform the business model underlying scholarly publishing towards a fully open access model.

ScienceDirect (Elsevier) – 3-year agreement from 2023 - 2025

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Nelson Mandela University as a participating institution have access to over 1660 subscription-based journal titles in the ScienceDirect Freedom Collection. Affiliated authors can publish their articles in these Hybrid titles without paying APCs.

 A 15% discount on fully Open Access (gold) journal article publishing.

 Article entitlement per year across all SANLiC members is:

      2023: 2221

      2024: 2407

      2025: 2610

 

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