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.
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 of Springer Nature’s hybrid journals.
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 and SpringerOpen journals.
MDPI: 10% discount on APCs for all MDPI journals.
Sage Publications: 10% discount on APCs for all Sage journals, applied automatically in the submission portal for accepted publications.