UCSF authors are eligible for discounts on open access publication charges for selected book publishers as well as journal articles with the publishers below.
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Publication discounts for journals
Follow the links in the Discount column below for more information about how to get the discount or library payment. All journal agreements apply to UCSF or UC authors who are in the corresponding author position unless otherwise noted.
Jump to a publisher in the table below:
AAAS | ACM | ACS | Biochemical Society | BMC | BMJ Case Reports | Cambridge University Press | Cold Spring Harbor Lab Press | Company of Biologists | Elsevier | Frontiers limited pilot | IEEE | JMIR | Karger (discontinued) | MDPI | Microbiology Society | NAS (PNAS) | Open Library of Humanities | Oxford (Nucleic Acids Research) | PLOS | Royal Society of Chemistry | SAGE | SPIE | Springer Nature | Taylor & Francis | UC Press | Wiley |
Publisher name & covered journal(s) | Discount on OA charges & info link |
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AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science) |
UC-wide agreement (see full details)
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ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) (all journals, proceedings, and magazines) |
UC-wide agreement (see full details)
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ACS (American Chemical Society) |
UC-wide agreement (see full details)
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Biochemical Society, The / Portland Press (all journals and article types) |
UC-wide agreement (see full details)
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BMC (BioMed Central) - see Springer Nature |
see Springer Nature |
BMJ (BMJ Case Reports only) |
UCSF Institutional Fellowship
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Cambridge University Press (all journals marked as "open access" or "contains open access") |
UC-wide agreement (see full details)
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Cold Spring Harbor Lab Press (Genes & Development, Genome Research, Learning & Memory, RNA, and CSH Molecular Case Studies) |
UCSF agreement (see full details)
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Company of Biologists (all journals; see article types covered) |
UC-wide agreement (see full details):
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Elsevier
|
UC-wide agreement (see full details):
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Frontiers limited pilot agreement
|
UC-wide pilot agreement (see full details):
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IEEE (Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers) (all journals and article types - conference proceedings are not covered) |
UC-wide agreement (see full details)
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JMIR Publications (all journals and article types) |
UC-wide agreement (see full details):
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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) |
UCSF agreement (see details from publisher)
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Microbiology Society, The (all journals and article types) |
UCSF agreement (see details from the society)
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National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) |
UC-wide agreement (see full details)
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Open Library of Humanities (all journals) |
UC-wide Supporter membership
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Oxford University Press (Nucleic Acids Research only) |
UC-wide agreement (see full details)
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PLOS (all journals and article types) |
UC-wide agreement (see full details)
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Royal Society of Chemistry |
UC-wide agreement (see full details)
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SAGE Publishing (all articles in most journals - see a list of excluded journals) |
UC-wide agreement (see full details)
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SPIE (optics and photonics society) |
UC-wide agreement (see full details)
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Springer Nature
|
UC-wide agreement (see full details)
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Taylor & Francis (all journals; Dove Press journals are not included) |
UC-wide agreement (see full details)
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UC Press: Collabra:Psychology and Elementa |
UC-wide membership (see full details)
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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)
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Publication discounts for books
Publisher | Discount Available | Additional Info |
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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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