Discounts & Funding for Open Access Publishing

UCSF and UC corresponding authors are eligible for discounts on article processing charges (APCs) for open access (OA) publication in many journals, as well as on publication charges for selected book publishers. In addition to the tables below, see these open access resources:

• See our Open Access Frequently Asked Questions
• Search the Directory of Open Access Journals to find thousands of quality open access journals, and see our tips for Evaluating Journals & Conferences
• Use your right though UC's Open Access Policy to share your author's accepted manuscripts openly - no payment required

Publication discounts for journals

Click the in the Discount column below for more information about how to get the discount or subsidy for UCSF authors.

Publisher name & covered journals	Discount on OA charges & info link
AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science): Science Advances only	10% discount (additional 4% discount available for AAAS members)
ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) (all journals, proceedings, and magazines; see article types covered)	100% discount (no cost to UC corresponding authors)
ACS (American Chemical Society) (AuthorChoice subscription/OA optional journals)	$250 discount (in addition to any membership discount)
Biochemical Society, The / Portland Press (all journals; see article types covered)	UC multi-payer model: First $1000 automatically covered for UC corresponding authors. Remainder covered for unfunded authors.
BMC (BioMed Central) - see Springer Nature	see Springer Nature
BMJ (BMJ Case Reports only)	UCSF's Institutional Fellowship fully covers the standard publication fee, but does not pay for open access publishing. Obtain fellowship code (requires UCSF MyAccess login).
Cambridge University Press (all journals that include open access; see article types covered)	Renewed in 2022. UC multi-payer model: 30% discount and first $1000 automatically covered for UC corresponding authors.  Remainder covered for unfunded authors.
Cold Spring Harbor Lab Press (research, review, and case study articles published in Genes & Development, Genome Research, Learning & Memory, RNA, and CSH Molecular Case Studies)	100% discount (no cost for UCSF corresponding authors), through a UCSF transformative agreement. See CSHLP's FAQ for Authors and the Library's announcement.
Company of Biologists (all journals; see article types covered)	UC multi-payer model: 10% discount and the first $1000 automatically covered for UC corresponding authors. Remainder covered for unfunded authors.
Elsevier (See article types covered. Most journals are included; check column F of title list.  Some society journals are not included. Coverage for Cell Press and some Lancet titles to be added later.)	UC multi-payer model: 15% discount (10% for Cell Press and The Lancet) and the first $1000 automatically covered for UC corresponding authors. Remainder covered for unfunded authors.
JMIR Publications (all journals and article types)	Renewed through 31 December2022. UC multi-payer model: First $1000 automatically covered for UC corresponding authors. Remainder covered for unfunded authors. Use @ucsf.edu email address during submission.
Karger - discontinued in 2022	UCSF is no longer participating in the Karger agreement due to budget reductions. Articles prior to 2022 received 50% discount.
MDPI (all journals)	10% discount. Select UCSF during manuscript submission.
Microbiology Society (all journals and article types)	100% discount (no cost to UCSF authors), through a UCSF transformative agreement. Use @ucsf.edu email.
National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)	Reduced UC rate of $3000 for open access publishing, with no separate page charges
Open Library of Humanities (all journals)	100% discount (no cost to UC authors)
Oxford University Press (Nucleic Acids Research only)	50% discount
PLOS (all journals and article types)	Renewed through 31 December 2022. UC multi-payer model: First $1000 automatically covered for UC corresponding authors. Remainder covered for unfunded authors.
Royal Society of Chemistry (subscription journals)	15% discount
SPIE (optics and photonics society) (Journal of Biomedical Optics and Neurophotonics only)	25% discount
Springer Nature (See article types covered. Most journals are included; see Springer's Info for UC Authors for a downloadable list of eligible journals. Adis OA, Nature-branded, and Nature-hosted OA journals not currently included.)	UC multi-payer model: First $1000 automatically covered for UC corresponding authors. Remainder covered for unfunded authors. 15% discount for BMC and SpringerOpen journals.
Taylor & Francis (all journals)	75% discount in most cases
UC Press: Collabra:Psychology and Elementa	100% coverage for UC authors without research funds
Wiley (all journals and article types [discount-only for UCSF authors])	Pilot for articles accepted in 2022: 15% discount for UC corresponding authors. Authors at UCI, UCM, UCR, UCSB, and UCSC are also eligible for UC multi-payer model.

Publication discounts for books

Publisher	Discount Available	Additional Info
Luminos (UC Press)	10% discount off Title Publication Fee (UC rate is $5000)
Open Book Publishers	OA publication fee is optional (see details)	See Author's Guide

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