The Unisa Library, through SANLiC, has signed a transformative Read & Publish agreement with the Institute of Physics for gold open access publishing in IOPscience Extra journals. This agreement commenced in 2023 and is in place for 2023 - 2025.
The Read & Publish agreement provides for gold open access publishing in over 70 hybrid and gold open access scholarly journals published by the Institute of Physics without paying article processing charges (APC's)
The Institute of Physics provides full information for Unisa researchers on how to publish under this agreement on the dedicated SANLiC web page.
All corresponding authors that are current staff members, researchers (permanent, temporary and visiting), or students at one of the institutions below at the point of submission, can publish open access at no cost to themselves. The corresponding author is the person listed as Corresponding Author at the time of submission, and is the person responsible for communicating with the journal during the peer review and publication process.
The IOP Transformative agreement hub has an author publication guide and frequently asked questions.
Information regarding this agreement is available on the SANLiC Institute of Physics web page