A three-year agreement covering the years 2022, 2023 and 2024 was signed with American Chemical Society (ACS). Within the scope of this agreement, Bilkent University members will not pay Article Processing Fee for open access articles to be published in ACS journals.
Full-text access is provided to journals published by the American Chemical Society in the field of chemistry and related disciplines. Also, platform includes archive of the journals beginning from 1879. The current number of journals is 78, 12 of which are open access.

Summary: 

• The corresponding author should be a Bilkent University author and an institutional e-mail address (@bilkent.edu.tr) should be used during submission.
• Institutional affiliation should be stated in the body of the manuscript.
• Articles must have an acceptance date that falls within the period of the current agreement. (2022-2024).
• All papers will be published with a CC-BY license.
• More information and instructions can be found on the ACS website.

Journals covered: Journal list can be accessed here.
Eligibility: Bilkent University corresponding authors.

The list of articles published under this agreement:

1. Light-driven Water Oxidation with Ligand-engineered Prussian Blue Analogues
2. Combating Infectious Diseases with Synthetic Biology
3. Chemical Tracking of Temperature by Concurrent Periodic Precipitation Pattern Formation in Polyacrylamide Gels
4. Sub-wavelength Densely-packed Disordered Semiconductor Metasurface Units for Photoelectrochemical Hydrogen Generation

Find below the steps to publish open access under ACS Read & Publish Agreement, once your article is accepted:

Step 1: Once your article is accepted, you will receive an email to complete the Journal Publishing Agreement (JPA).

•  “Yes I wish to publish Open Access” option should be selected to complete the JPA signing process.

• “Order Open Access” link provided after you sign the publishing agreement should be followed.

Step 2: The “Order Open Access” link will take you to Copyright Clearance Center RightsLink®, ACS’s open access e-commerce partner for open access transactions.

• Select “Seek Funding from (Your Institution/Agreement)” and click “Next”.

Step 3: Charges Estimate page will come next.

•  Review the details including the agreement assigned creative commons license, and that the total due is $0.

Step 4: The Copyright Clearance Center requires a registered account in RightsLink® to complete the funding request transaction.

• Here you can create an account, if you don’t already have one, or sign in if you do have an account. Please note that this account is different from your ACS account.

Step 5: Order Review page will come next.

• The Billing Address is the address for the administrative entity of the open agreement, for example, the consortia or institution with which the agreement is associated with. Check that you have agreed to the ACS Terms and Conditions and click “Submit for Approval” to complete the open access funding request.

You will receive a confirmation email from the Copyright Clearance Center (no-reply@copyright.com) once your request is approved. At this stage, your steps to receive open access funding are complete. The published article will indicate the selected public use license to let readers know it’s open access.

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“Read and Publish” agreement with Cambridge University Press (CUP), which started in 2021, will continue in 2022. Within the scope of the agreement, Bilkent University members will not pay any Article Processing Fee for the articles to be published in Hybrid and Gold Open Access journals. There is no limit to the number of articles to be published.

Summary: 

• The corresponding author should be a Bilkent University author.
• Be accepted for publication in a CUP journal covered by the agreement.
• Articles must have an acceptance date that falls within the period of the current agreement. (01.01.2022 - 31.12.2022)
• Once your paper is accepted under this agreement, a Creative Commons license should be selected.
  (Available options are CC BY 4.0, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 and CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
• More information and instructions can be found on the CUP website.

Journals covered: CUP journals covered by the agreement.
Eligibility: Bilkent University corresponding authors.
Article Types: Original research: research articles, review articles, rapid communications, brief reports, and case reports

Within the scope of the agreement signed with The Royal Society Publishing for 2022, Bilkent University members will have the right to publish an unlimited amount of open access articles in the journals of The Royal Society publishing without paying an Article Processing Fee. In addition, all the archives of the journals from 1665 to the present are also accessible.

Summary: 

• The corresponding author needs to have a Bilkent affiliation.
• Articles accepted within the period of the current agreement are eligible. (01.01.2022 - 31.12.2022)
• The number of OA publishing under this agreement is unlimited.
• During the submission process, state Bilkent University as your institution and select the ‘Read & Publish’ option.
• More information and instructions can be found on the Royal Society Publishing website.

Journals covered: All Royal Society journals.
Eligibility: Bilkent University corresponding authors.

 

Bilkent University Library's subscription to Karger content includes three OA vouchers to publish in Karger's open access journals.

Summary: 

• A total of three articles written by Bilkent University members can be published as open access in Hybrid and Gold Open Access journals without Article Processing Fee once they have been accepted for publication.
• Open Access Vouchers will be valid for articles accepted between January 1, 2022 and December 31, 2024.
• The corresponding author needs to have a Bilkent affiliation.
• More information can be found on the Karger Publishers website.

Eligibility: Bilkent University corresponding authors.