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UCSD Discounts on Article Publication Charges

Article publication discounts are available to UCSD authors for selected publishers. Most of these are UC-wide, based on institutional subscriptions or memberships, unless otherwise specified. See the UC Publishing Discounts page for more information on how to apply the discount to your accepted article, as well as who and what is covered. Some publishers may restrict the discounts to selected journals rather than their entire list of journals, and/or limit eligibility based on the affiliation of the corresponding author. There may also be additional fees for some Creative Commons (CC) licenses.

Publisher	Journals Included	OA Discount	Discount Based On	Notes	Make your articles OA without paying the APC?
American Association for the Advancement of Science	Science Advances	10% (additional 4% discount available for AAAS members)	UC subscriptions to AAAS journals, including Science.	Submitting authors from any UC campus are eligible.
American Chemical Society	All ACS journals, except ACS Central Science, ACS Omega, or JACS Au.	ACS AuthorChoice: $250 discount, with additional discounts for ACS members and/or selecting availability after 12 months.	UC's subscription to the ACS "All Publications Package," plus level of individual author's ACS membership.	Corresponding authors from any UC campus, UCOP, or LBL are eligible..	Yes. Deposit the final accepted manuscript into eScholarship with a 12-month embargo.
BioMed Central	All journals published by BMC	15% ; as of Jan 2021, UC Libraries will cover the first $1,000. Remainder covered by the Library for unfunded authors.	UC membership with BioMed Central.	Corresponding authors from any UC campus, UCOP, or LBL are eligible.
BMJ Case Reports		100%	UCSD subscription to the journal.	Create a Fellowship account (free) when on the UCSD network using code 200883. See the User Guide.	Yes. Deposit post peer reviewed manuscript after 6 month embargo and must be released with a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License. Author retains copyright.
Cambridge University Press	All CUP journals that are fully open access or offer an open access option.	Starting in 2020: 30% discount + UC Libraries will cover the first $1,000 of the remaining discounted fee. If authors do not have grant funding to pay any remaining amount, the UC Libraries will cover that as well.	Transformative agreement between UC and Cambridge University Press.	Corresponding authors from any UC campus, UCOP, or LBL are eligible. How will the payment process work?
Canadian Science Publishing	All of the publisher's journals are included.	Starting January 1, 2021, UC Libraries will cover the first $1,000. Remainder covered by the Library for unfunded authors.	Transformative Open Access agreement between UC & the publisher.	The agreement applies to articles accepted starting January 2021.
Cogitatio Press	All	100%	UCSD institutional membership	Corresponding authors from UCSD are eligible.	Yes. All articles are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY), guaranteeing that authors retain the copyrights of their work and can freely use, reuse and share their articles. Authors may post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) without any embargo period.
Company of Biologists	All of the publisher's journals are included.	Starting January, 2021, a 10% discount + UC Libraries will cover the first $1,000 of the remaining fee. If authors do not have grant funding, the UC Libraries will cover that as well.	UC open access agreement.	Any author affiliated from any UC campus, UCOP, or LBL is eligible.
Electrochemical Society	All ECS journals in the ECS Digital Library	100%	UC subscription to the ECS journal package, plus an additional fee for ECS Plus.	Any author affiliated from any UC campus, UCOP, or LBL is eligible. If the corresponding author isn't from UC, they should forward the acceptance letter to the UC author to claim the article credit. Select Author Choice Open Access when you submit your paper, and indicate that you come from a subscribing institution.	Because of the article credits, you can always make your articles OA without fees.
Elsevier	All Elsevier hybrid and OA journals (a small number of excluded titles to be released soon)	Starting April 2021: 10-15% discount + UC Libraries will cover the first $1,000 of the remaining discounted fee. If authors do not have grant funding to pay remaining amount, the UC Libraries will cover that as well.	Transformative agreement between UC and Elsevier	Corresponding authors from any UC campus, UCOP, or LBNL are eligible
Karger	All Karger journals	50% off any publication fees, including the standard APC rate for full OA journals, and the "Author's Choice" fee for hybrid journals.	UC's subscription and license agreement with Karger	Corresponding authors from any UC campus, UCOP, or LBL are eligible. Authors should mention in their submission cover letters that they are eligible for this discount.	Yes. Accepted final manuscripts can be deposited in eScholarship with 12-month embargo.
MDPI	All MDPI journals	10%	Institutional Open Access Program	UCSD is a member of the program, but do not support MDPI financially. Authors will be responsible for payments directly through MDPI.
National Academy of Sciences	PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)	Starting August 2021 (thru July 2023) publish with a single, all-inclusive cost of $3,000 - no separate page charges.	Flat annual fee	Corresponding authors from any UC campus, UCOP, or LBL are eligible. To publish open access, author needs to specify UC affiliation. In follow up email, choose the open access option. Later, an invoice will be sent.	Yes. However, all PNAS articles are freely available within 6 months of publication.
Oxford University Press	Nucleic Acids Research	50%	UC membership with Nucleic Acids Research	UC corresponding authors (except for UCSF) are eligible. Authors may pay APCs and request discounts through the Oxford's Author Services site.
PeerJ	All journals	100%	UCSD institutional plan	The Library has deposited funds to cover 36 basic memberships for UCSD authors. The basic (lifetime) membership waives the APC for one article/year. Every co-author will need a membership.
PLOS	All journals	Starting April 1, 2020, UC Libraries will cover the first $1,000. Remainder covered by the Library for unfunded authors.		Corresponding authors from any UC campus, UCOP, or LBL are eligible.
The Royal Society	All journals	25%	CDL's yearly fee on behalf of the UC Libraries.	Paying authors from any UC campus, UCOP, or LBL should indicate they are from a member institution when asked to pay the APC.
Royal Society of Chemistry	All RSC journals, except RSC Advances and Chemical Science.	15%	UC subscription to the RSC "Gold" journal package.	Corresponding authors from any UC campus, UCOP, or LBL are eligible. Authors may submit RSC's OA Application once the article's accepted.
SPIE	Journal of Biomedical Optics Neurophotonics	25%	UC institutional subscription to the SPIE Digital Library	Any author affiliated with any UC campus, UCOP, or LBL is eligible.
Springer Nature	Journals in Springer, Adis, & Palgrave Macmillan plus academic journals on nature.com. Nature-branded journals will be added within the next year	Starting January 4, 2021, UC Libraries will cover the first $1,000. Remainder covered by the Library for unfunded authors.	UC Transformative agreement with the Publisher.	UC corresponding authors are eligible. Springer will automatically apply the discount if the manuscript is submitted on the campus computer network, or you can select the institution on the APC agreement page.
Taylor & Francis	T&F Open and Open Select (hybrid) journals	For Open Select: 75% off the prevailing "Open Select" APC fee. For Open: either the full OA APC, or 75% discount of the prevailing "Open Select" APC, whichever is lower.	Part of UC's license agreement with Taylor & Francis.	Any author affiliated with any UC campus, UCOP, or LBL is eligible. Upon acceptance, the author can email apc@tandf.co.uk with their manuscript ID to request the discount.	Yes. Final accepted manuscripts can be deposited into eScholarship. Embargo time depends on the journal.
University of California Press	Collabra: Psychology and Elementa	100%	UC Press has access to central UC funds to cover the APC charges for UC authors who do not otherwise have access to funding through other sources	Any author affiliated with any UC campus, UCOP, or LBL is eligible. Authors who have access to research funding or an OA publishing fund should use that funding. Following acceptance, the corresponding author should notify UC Press that there is an affiliated author who would like to use those funds.

Adapted from CDL's UC Discounts on APCs page.
Last updated May 4, 2021