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Article Processing Charge Support

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In support of the UW Open Access Policy, the Libraries provides options for no cost or low cost publishing or sharing of UW authored publications.

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Current Agreements

The following agreements and organizational memberships reduce fees for UW authors to publish Open Access (OA) in several publications. Please note:

  • UW Libraries has no central fund to finance APCs for individual articles.
  • For detailed information, please consult these publishers’ policies.
  • Use your @uw.edu email during the submission process so these publishers will know you are eligible for discounts as a UW author.
  • If your journal is not listed here, you may be able to deposit your accepted manuscript in UW’s repository ResearchWorks at no cost. See UW’s Open Access policy for more information.
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ACM Open (Association for Computing Machinery

  • Publications: Magazines, conference proceedings, and journals published by ACM 
  • Reduction to Article Processing Fee (APC): 100% reduction. Qualifying authors pay no fees.
  • Eligibility and more information: The corresponding author must be affiliated with UW. Articles will be deposited into the ACM Digital Library Lock Icon immediately.

Biochemical Society/Portland Press

  • Publications: All journals
  • Reduction to Article Processing Fee (APC): 100% reduction. Qualifying authors pay no fees.
  • Eligibility and more information: The corresponding author must be affiliated with UW.

Cambridge University Press

  • Publications: Gold and hybrid journals: 
    • Hybrid journals give authors the choice whether to publish their articles OA for a fee. Articles that are not OA are available only by subscription.
    • Gold journals make articles available openly to everyone free of charge. 
  • Reduction to Article Processing Fee (APC): 100% reduction. Qualifying authors pay no fees.
  • Eligibility and more information: Corresponding authors must be affiliated with UW at the time of submission. 

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

  • Publications: Genes and Development, Genome Research, RNA, Learning & Memory
  • (Articles in CSH Protocols, CSH Perspectives in Biology, and CHS Perspectives in Medicine are commissioned and do not accept submissions.)
  • Reduction to Article Processing Fee (APC):Fees to publish OA are reduced to $2,035.00. (Without this agreement, total fees to publish OA would be $5,200.00.)
  • Eligibility and more information: The corresponding author must be affiliated with UW. Does not apply to editorials and comments.

Company of Biologists

  • Publications: All journals 
  • Reduction to Article Processing Fee (APC): 100% reduction. Qualifying authors pay no fees.
  • Eligibility and more information: The corresponding author must be affiliated with UW. 

De Gruyter

  • Publications: Gold and hybrid journals: 
    • Hybrid journals give authors the choice whether to publish their articles OA for a fee. Articles that are not OA are available only by subscription.
    • Gold journals make articles available openly to everyone free of charge. 
  • Reduction to Article Processing Fee (APC): 100% reduction. Qualifying authors pay no fees.
  • Eligibility and more information: The corresponding author must be affiliated with UW.

GeoScience World

  • Publications: Lithosphere
  • Reduction to Article Processing Fee (APC): 20% discount on APCs.
  • Eligibility and more information: The corresponding author must be affiliated with UW.
    • The discount code below can be entered during the checkout process when the manuscript is submitted and must be entered prior to the manuscript final decision.
    • Discount code: GWLA-SAVE-K8W5
    • The discount cannot be combined with any other APC discounts the author may be eligible for.

International Water Association

  • Publications: Journal of Water Sanitation & Hygiene for Development, Water Quality Research Journal
  • Reduction to Article Processing Fee (APC): 100% reduction. Qualifying authors pay no fees.
  • Eligibility and more information: The corresponding author must be affiliated with UW. Does not apply to editorials and comments.

IOP

  • Publications: Journals in lists A, B, C, and D are included. Alternatively, UW authors can select UW as institution and search for journals in the IOP journal finder.
  • Reduction to Article Processing Fee (APC): 100% reduction. Qualifying authors pay no fees.
  • Eligibility and more information: The corresponding author must be affiliated with UW at the time of submission. IOP provides detailed instructions. and an FAQ for authors.

MDPI

  • Publications: All MDPI journals.Lock Icon
  • Reduction to Article Processing Fee (APC): 10% discount on APCs.
  • Eligibility and more information: Articles are eligible for the discount if any author is affiliated with UW, regardless of whether the UW author is the corresponding author.

The Microbiology Society

  • Publications: All journals
  • Reduction to Article Processing Fee (APC): 100% reduction. Qualifying authors pay no fees.
  • Eligibility and more information: The corresponding author must be affiliated with UW at the time their article is accepted for publication.

PLOS

  • Publications: All PLOS journals.
  • Reduction to Article Processing Fee (APC):
    • 100% reduction for qualifying corresponding authors.
    • 25% discount for qualifying contributing authors.
  • Eligibility and more information:
    • Corresponding authors affiliated with UW qualify for a 100% discount.
    • If there are any contributing authors affiliated with UW, the article qualifies for a 25% discount provided the corresponding author’s institution does not have an agreement with PLOS to reduce APCs.

SCOAP3 (Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access in Particle Physics)

  • Publications: SCOAP3 supports OA publishing in particle physics journals from different publishers.
    • Acta Physica Polonica B (Jagiellonian University in Krakow)
    • Advances in High Energy Physics (Hindawi)
    • Chinese Physics C (IOP)
    • The European Physical Journal C (Springer)
    • The Journal of High Energy Physics (Springer)
    • Nuclear Physics B (Elsevier)
    • Physics Letters B (Elsevier)
    • Physical Review C (APS)
    • Physical Review D (APS)
    • Physical Review Letters (APS)
    • Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics (Oxford U. Press)
  • Reduction to Article Processing Fee (APC): 100% reduction. Authors pay no fees to publish articles in the sponsored journals.
  • Eligibility and more information: All authors, whether they are affiliated with UW or not.
  • See the author guides for each journal.  Articles are included in the SCOAP3 repository. 

Springer

  • Publications: BMC (BioMed Central) and Springer Open journals
  • Reduction to Article Processing Fee (APC): 15% discount on APCs.
  • Eligibility and more information: The corresponding author must be affiliated with UW.

Taylor & Francis