We have a transformational agreement with the South African National Library Consortium (SANLiC) which allows researchers to publish articles in open access journals without having to pay for the article publishing charges or fees (APC). Transformational agreements are contracts negotiated between institutions and publishers that transform agreements that consortia have with publishers, moving from subscription access to one in which publishers are paid for their Open Access publishing services. Open Access (OA) publishing is whereby hybrid journals that are journals that are paid subscriptions, but also allow articles to be published OA for a fee. It allows authors at UKZN to publish their article OA in all hybrid journals.