Discounts and Funding for Open Access Publishing

AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science)
(Science Advances only)

UC-wide agreement (see full details)

• 10% discount when publishing in Science Advances
• additional 4% discount available for AAAS members

ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

(all journals, proceedings, and magazines)

UC-wide agreement (see full details)

• 100% discount (no cost to UC corresponding authors)
• research and review articles only

ACS (American Chemical Society)

(all journal and article types)

UC-wide agreement (see full details)

• Single, discounted $3000 article processing charge (unless APC is lower)
• Full APC covered for unfunded authors 

Biochemical Society, The / Portland Press

(all journals and article types)

UC-wide agreement (see full details)

• First $1000 automatically covered 
• Remainder covered for unfunded authors.

BMC (BioMed Central) - see Springer Nature

UCSF Institutional Fellowship

• Covers 100% of standard publication fee
• Does not pay for open access publishing
• Obtain fellowship code (requires UCSF MyAccess login)

UC-wide agreement (see full details)

• 30% discount
• First $1000 automatically covered 
• Remainder covered for unfunded authors
• Research articles, review articles, Brief Reports and Case Reports

Cold Spring Harbor Lab Press

(Genes & Development, Genome Research, Learning & Memory, RNA, and CSH Molecular Case Studies)

UCSF agreement (see full details)

• 100% discount (no cost for UCSF corresponding authors)
• Research, review, and case study articles
• See also CSHLP's FAQ for Authors

Company of Biologists

(all journals; see article types covered)

UC-wide agreement (see full details):

• 10% discount 
• First $1000 automatically covered 
• Remainder covered for unfunded authors

Elsevier

• See journals & article types covered
• Some society journals are excluded; check column F of title list (use the drop-down arrow in column B to sort the list alphabetically)
• All Cell Press and The Lancet titles are covered as of September 1, 2022

UC-wide agreement (see full details):

• 15% discount (10% for Cell Press and The Lancet titles)
• First $1000 automatically covered
• Remainder covered for unfunded authors

Frontiers limited pilot agreement

• 20 journals in the Humanities and Social Sciences and Sustainability disciplines
• Covers articles containing original research in these 20 journals

UC-wide pilot agreement (see full details):

• APC fully covered (no cost to author)
• 20 selected journals in the humanities, social sciences and sustainability
• Articles accepted between August 1, 2023 and July 30, 2024

IEEE (Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers)

(all journals and article types - conference proceedings are not covered)

UC-wide agreement (see full details)

• Update as of October 4, 2023: open access and page charge support will end effective January 1, 2024. (more info)
• Article processing charge (APC) is fully covered for authors without grant funds
• Authors with grant funds are asked to pay the full APC
• Overlength page charges are covered for all authors

JMIR Publications

(all journals and article types)

UC-wide agreement (see full details):

• Renewed for 2023. Covers manuscripts submitted through December 31, 2023
• First $1000 automatically covered
• Remainder covered for authors without grant funds for OA publishing
• Use @ucsf.edu email address during submission

UCSF agreement (see details from publisher)

• 10% discount for UCSF authors in any author position. Select UCSF during manuscript submission.

Microbiology Society, The

(all journals and article types)

UCSF agreement (see details from the society)

• 100% discount (no cost to UCSF corresponding authors)
• Use @ucsf.edu email

UC-wide agreement (see full details)

• Single reduced rate of $3000 for open access publishing
• No separate page charges

UC-wide Supporter membership

• 100% discount (no cost to UC authors)

UC-wide agreement (see full details)

• 50% discount off the article processing charge for Nucleic Acids Research

UC-wide agreement (see full details)

• Covers manuscripts submitted from April 1, 2020 through March 31, 2024.
• First $1000 automatically covered
• Remainder covered for unfunded authors

Royal Society of Chemistry
(subscription journals)

UC-wide agreement (see full details)

• 15% discount when publishing in RSC subscription journals

SAGE Publishing

(all articles in most journals - see a list of excluded journals)

UC-wide agreement (see full details)

• 15% discount in fully open access journals and 20% discount in hybrid journals
• First $1000 automatically covered
• Remainder covered for unfunded authors

SPIE (optics and photonics society)

(Journal of Biomedical Optics and Neurophotonics only)

UC-wide agreement (see full details)

• 25% discount off open access charges in Journal of Biomedical Optics and Neurophotonics

Springer Nature

• See article types and journals covered
• See Springer's Info for UC Authors for an Excel "Journal list" of eligible Springer/Palgrave/BMC journals (direct download link) and Nature journals (direct download link)
• Adis open access and Rapid+ journals are not covered

UC-wide agreement (see full details)

• For Springer portfolio (includes BMC/BioMed Central), first $1000 covered and remainder covered for unfunded authors
• For Nature portfolio, first $1000 covered (effective 1 August 2022)
• 15% discount for journals in BMC and SpringerOpen journals 

Taylor & Francis

(all journals; Dove Press journals are not included)

UC-wide agreement (see full details)

• Hybrid OA journals: 75% article processing charge discount
• Fully OA journals: the lower of either the journal's article processing charge or 25% of the standard hybrid price

UC Press: Collabra:Psychology and Elementa

UC-wide membership (see full details)

• 100% coverage for UC authors without research funds when publishing in Collabra:Psychology and Elementa

Wiley

(all Wiley journals; Hindawi journals are not included)

(article types covered: research, review, case study, commentary, data article, education, lecture, method and protocol,  perspective, practice & policy, rapid publication, short communication, technical note)

UC-wide agreement (see full details)

• Pilot for articles accepted March 1 - December 31, 2023
• Articles submitted to a full open access journal or accepted in a hybrid open access journal between January 1 and February 28, 2023 but not yet published will be retroactively covered
• 15% discount 
• First $1000 automatically covered
• Remainder covered for unfunded authors
  
• See article payment process