Agreements
Although the Library does not have stand-alone funding to cover article processing charges (APCs), we do have agreements with certain publishers in place that allow UD authors to publish open access without any fees:
ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) Open: APC fees will be waived, provided that the corresponding author is affiliated with UD, and uses their institutional email address for submission. See full instructions for authors.
ACS (American Chemical Society) Read and Green: Authors have the option to deposit their accepted manuscript into a repository (including PubMed Central) with no embargo and a Creative Commons license of their choice. The author will retain copyright of the Version of Record. There is no fee for authors to participate in the program. Additional information.
Cambridge University Press (CUP): All participating CUP journals, does not cover select article types (renewed through the end of 2027).
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC): APCs are covered for all hybrid RSC journals. Authors also receive a 15% discount on APCs for gold OA RSC journals.
Springer Nature: Corresponding authors will have APCs waived when they publish in any hybrid Springer, Palgrave, or Adis journal, as well as the Academic Journals on nature.com. Journals in the Nature portfolio are not included in this agreement.
Discounts
In addition to our full agreements, UD authors may get a discount on publishing open access with the following publishers:
ASM Journals: APCs waived; authors must still pay a per-page charge of $79 for ASM Subscribe2Open members (ASM S20), as well as a $180 flat fee.
BioMedCentral: 15% discount on APCs for BMC, Discover, or SpringerOpen journals.
GeoScienceWorld – Lithosphere: As part of the library’s membership in the NERL (Northeast Research Libraries) consortium, UD affiliated researchers can receive a 20% discount on APCs for articles published in Lithosphere. To receive the discount, the researcher must be the corresponding author on the accepted paper. The discount code can be entered during the checkout process when the manuscript is submitted, and must be entered prior to the manuscript final decision.
Submission link. Discount code: NERL-SAVE-TB7E
MDPI: 10% discount on APCs for all MDPI journals.