All applications for the URC Page Costs and the Open Access Journal Publication Fund (article processing charges) are submitted to the Research Office via UCT’s Research Portal on the electronic Research Administration (eRA) system
These grants are intended to contribute towards page costs of articles in journals accredited by the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET), or to provide a contribution to the publishing of a book that may earn DHET subsidy.
Articles
to contribute towards page costs of articles in journals accredited by the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET), please ensure that you adhere to the Publication Count guidelines for the subsidisation of journal articles by DHET.
applications may only be made once the article has been accepted for publication.
a copy of the invoice is required.
Books
to provide a contribution to the publishing of a book that may earn DHET subsidy. please ensure that you adhere to the publication count guidelines, for the subsidisation of books, found here.
Required information and documentation for books:
a motivation from the chairperson of the faculty research committee indicating that the book meets the DHET criteria for earning subsidy
a description of the book in English (maximum of page length)
a statement from the publisher describing the peer-review process for this book: this is a key requirement to have the book considered for subsidy from DHET
the contents page of the book and contributor's page showing your affiliation to UCT
a copy of the invoice.
Eligibility
All UCT staff and postgraduate students.
Project supervisors are to apply on behalf of their students where the student is the corresponding author.
Terms & Conditions
Please note that it is the responsibility of the author to settle costs with the publisher, as awards are transferred directly into research funds.
Claims must be submitted within six months of the invoice date
Applicants should negotiate with the publisher on possible discounts for authors from developing countries, if applicable, before they submit to the page costs application to the Research Office.
Deadline
Ad-hoc basis.
Year end cut-off is 30 November to meet the year-end financial deadline.
The UCT URC Open Access Journal Publication Fund (OAJPF) has been established to support UCT researchers with the publication of their research output in open access journals. The Fund is intended to contribute to Article Processing Charges (APCs) for submissions accepted for publication in open access journals or in hybrid journals that have an open access option.
Open access scholarly publishing will enhance the strength, visibility, accessibility and discoverability of UCT's scholarly output. UCT supports open access scholarly publishing as it offers the potential for democratic access to research knowledge, opening up scholarly content to a much wider range of readers and stakeholders in both the public and private sectors.
Criteria
Applications may only be made once the article has been accepted for publication.
Applicants who are beneficiaries of financial support for the publication of research, DO NOT qualify for funding.
The journal to be published in, must be on the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET) list of accredited journals, and the article must adhere to the Publication Count guidelines (i.e. be original articles, research letters, research papers and review articles).
UCT authors should represent a minimum of 25 percent of the total number of authors of the article.
Terms & Conditions
The Fund will pay up to a maximum of R20 000.00 per article. However, the URC OAJPF fund is limited and there is no guarantee that every application will be successful.
It is the responsibility of the author/applicant to settle the costs with the publisher, as the OAJPF contribution will be transferred directly into the Faculty research fund on receipt of invoice.
Claims/applications must be submitted within six months of the invoice date.
Project supervisors are to apply on behalf of their students where the student is the corresponding author.
To defray the cost of publishing, authors submitting manuscripts are asked to pay an article-processing charge (APC) per published article.
UCT has a shared support membership so this article-processing charge is shared between the UCT author and the institution for all research articles accepted for publication in any BioMed Central (Open Access Publisher www.biomedcentral.com).
Recognition of UCT authors is purely based on where the submission process takes place from. Only if an author submits from a recognised UCT IP address will that article be automatically transferred to our membership and eligible for a 50 % discount on the article-processing charge (APC). UCT authors are then liable for the outstanding amount.
All UCT authors submitting from outside the registered IP address range therefore need to clearly state that they are submitting from a shared support member institution (UCT) and will then be offered the same discount.
Authors must select membership at the submission stage.
Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute - MDPI
UCT has joined MDPI's Institutional Open Access Program (IOAP), which means authors are eligible for a 10% discount on APCs once your paper is accepted for publication
APC Discounts
“Authors affiliated with participating universities receive a 10% discount on the APCs for any paper published in an MDPI journal. Note that only one discount through an IOAP scheme is permitted per paper, and the discount cannot be combined with other available discounts (e.g., discount vouchers, or society membership discounts).”
