The University of California is committed to making it easier and more affordable for UC authors to publish open access.
The UC libraries negotiate agreements with scholarly journal publishers to reduce the amount authors must pay when they choose to publish open access. Most agreements offer up to full coverage of the open access fees; others offer a discount.
For more information about UC’s open access agreements, read the General FAQ for UC Open Access Agreements.
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Find journals eligible for UC funding support using our Journal Open Access Lookup Tool. For journals not covered by UC agreements, your campus library may offer funding or discounts.
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Find details on the amount of funding available to UC authors, by publisher, below. Both full coverage and discount agreements are listed.
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American Association for the Advancement of Science
- Discount or funding available:
- 10% discount
- Additional 4% discount available for AAAS members
- Eligible journal: Science Advances
- UC locations covered: All 10 campuses, LLNL, LBNL
- Effective dates: Ongoing
- See full details
American Chemical Society
- Discount or funding available:
- Single, discounted APC of $3,000 (unless APC list price is lower than $3,000)
- Full APC covered for authors without funds available for open access publishing
- Eligible journals: All ACS journals
- UC locations covered: All 10 campuses, LLNL, LBNL
- Effective dates: January 1, 2022–December 31, 2025
- See full details
Association for Computing Machinery
- Discount or funding available: APC fully covered (no cost to author)
- Eligible journals: Research and review articles in all ACM journals, proceedings and magazines
- UC locations covered: All 10 campuses, LLNL, LBNL
- Effective dates: January 1, 2020–December 31, 2025
- See full details
American Society for Microbiology
- Discount or funding available: APC fully covered; Discounts available on standard page charges and supplemental material fees.
- Eligible journals: ASM’s 6 primary research subscription-based journals
- UC locations covered: All 10 campuses, LLNL, LBNL
- Effective dates: January 1, 2025–December 31, 2027
- See full details
Biochemical Society/Portland Press
- Discount or funding available:
- First $1,000 of APC automatically covered
- Full APC covered for authors without funds available for open access publishing
- Eligible journals: All Biochemical Society/Portland Press journals
- UC locations covered: All 10 campuses, LBNL
- Effective dates: January 1, 2022–December 31, 2024 (2025 renewal in process)
- See full details
BioMed Central
- Discount or funding available:
- 15% discount
- First $1,000 of APC automatically covered
- Full APC covered for authors without funds available for open access publishing
- Eligible journals: All BioMed Central journals
- UC locations covered: All 10 campuses
- Effective dates: 15% discount is ongoing. See Springer Nature agreement for dates of library support in covering the APC.
- See full details
Cambridge University Press
- Discount or funding available:
- 30% discount
- First $1,000 of APC automatically covered
- Full APC covered for authors without funds available for open access publishing.
- Eligible journals: Most CUP journals, with the exception of a small number of society-owned journals that do not yet offer an open access option.
- UC locations covered: All 10 campuses
- Effective dates: January, 2019–December 31, 2025
- See full details
Canadian Science Publishing
- Discount or funding available:
- First $1,000 of APC automatically covered
- Full APC covered for authors without funds available for open access publishing
- Eligible journals: All CSP journals
- UC locations covered: 9 UC campuses (does not include UCSF, LBNL, LLNL)
- Effective dates: January 1, 2021–December 31, 2026
- See full details
Company of Biologists
- Discount or funding available:
- 10% discount
- First $1,000 of APC automatically covered
- Full APC covered for authors without funds available for open access publishing
- Eligible journals: All CoB journals
- UC locations covered: All 10 campuses, LBNL
- Effective dates: January 1, 2021–December 31, 2026
- See full details
Copernicus Publications
- Discount or funding available: 50% discount
- Eligible journals: 21 Copernicus journals
- UC locations covered: All 10 campuses, LBNL
- Effective dates: January 1, 2025–December 31, 2025
- See full details
Electrochemical Society
- Discount or funding available: APC fully covered (no cost to author)
- Eligible journals: All ECS Digital Library journals
- UC locations covered: 9 campuses (does not include UCSF), LBNL, LNLL
- Effective dates: Ongoing
- See full details
Elsevier
- Discount or funding available:
- 15% discount (10% for Cell Press and The Lancet)
- First $1,000 of APC automatically covered
- Full APC covered for authors without funds available for open access publishing
- Eligible journals: All Elsevier journals, excluding a limited number of society journals
- UC locations covered: All 10 campuses, LBNL, LLNL
- Effective dates: April 1, 2021–March 31, 2025
- See full details
Frontiers
- Discount or funding available: APC fully covered (no cost to author)
- Eligible journals: 20 selected journals in the humanities, social sciences and sustainability (see full details for title list)
- UC locations covered: All 10 campuses, LBNL, LLNL
- Effective dates: August 1, 2023 to July 31, 2025
- See full details
IEEE
- Discount or funding available (NOTE: the following only applies to articles accepted through December 31, 2023. As of January 1, 2024, funding support for IEEE APCs and page charges is no longer available.)
- Full APC covered for authors without funds available for open access publishing
- Authors with funds available for open access publishing are asked to pay the full APC
- Overlength page charges are covered for all authors, whether or not they choose to publish open access.
- Eligible journals: All IEEE journals
- UC locations covered: All 10 campuses
- Effective dates: July 15, 2022–December 31, 2023
- See full details
International Water Association
- Discount or funding available: APC fully covered (no cost to author)
- Eligible journals: All IWA journals
- UC locations covered: All 10 campuses
- Effective dates: July 15, 2023–June 30, 2026
- See full details
JMIR Publications
- Discount or funding available:
- First $1,000 of APC automatically covered
- Full APC covered for authors without funds available for open access publishing
- Eligible journals: All JMIR journals
- UC locations covered: All 10 campuses, LBNL, LLNL
- Effective dates: December 23, 2019–December 31, 2025.
- See full details
Karger
- Discount or funding available: 50% discount
- Eligible journals: All Karger journals
- UC locations covered: 9 campuses (does not include UCSF), LBNL
- Effective dates: Ongoing
- See full details
National Academy of Sciences
- Discount or funding available:
- Single, discounted APC of $3,225 per article
- No separate page charges
- Eligible journal: PNAS
- UC locations covered: All 10 campuses, LBNL, LLNL
- Effective dates: August 1, 2021–December 31, 2026
- See full details
Oxford University Press
- Discount or funding available:
- Hybrid journals: First $1000 of APC automatically covered; full APC covered for authors without funds available for open access publishing
- Fully open access journals: First $750 of APC automatically covered
- Eligible journals: All OUP journals
- UC locations covered: All 10 campuses, LBNL, LLNL
- Effective dates: February 4, 2025–December 31, 2028
- See full details
PLoS
- Discount or funding available:
- First $1,000 of APC automatically covered
- Full APC covered for authors without funds available for open access publishing
- Eligible journals: All PLoS journals
- UC locations covered: All 10 campuses, LBNL, LLNL
- Effective dates: April 1, 2020–February 28, 2025 (2025 renewal in process)
- See full details
Royal Society
- Discount or funding available:
- First $1,000 of APC automatically covered
- Full APC covered for authors without funds available for open access publishing
- Eligible journals: All Royal Society journals
- UC locations covered: 9 campuses (does not include UCSF), LBNL, LLNL
- Effective dates: Begins January 1, 2021 (2025 renewal in process)
- See full details
Royal Society of Chemistry
- Discount or funding available: 15% discount
- Eligible journals: All RSC subscription journals
- UC locations covered: All 10 campuses
- Effective dates: Ongoing
- See full details
SAGE
- Discount or funding available:
- 20% discount for hybrid (subscription) journals; 15% discount for fully open access journals
- First $1,000 of APC automatically covered
- Full APC covered for authors without funds available for open access publishing
- Eligible journals: All SAGE journals, excluding small number of society journals
- UC locations covered: All 10 campuses, LBNL, LLNL
- Effective dates: January 1, 2022–December 31, 2024 (2025 renewal in process. Publishing support and reading access to content will remain unchanged in the interim.)
- See full details
SPIE
- Discount or funding available: 25% discount
- Eligible journals: Journal of Biomedical Optics and Neurophotonics
- UC locations covered: All 10 campuses
- Effective dates: Ongoing
- See full details
Springer Nature
- Discount or funding available:
- First $1,000 of APC automatically covered
- For Springer portfolio, full APC covered for authors without funds available for open access publishing (Note: the Nature portfolio does not include a full APC coverage option)
- Eligible journals: All journals are included in the agreement; see FAQ for details
- UC locations covered: All 10 campuses
- Effective dates: January 4, 2021–December 31, 2024 (2025 renewal in process. Publishing support and reading access to content will remain unchanged in the interim.)
- See full details
Taylor & Francis
- Discount and funding available: APC fully covered (no cost to author)
- Eligible journals: All Taylor & Francis hybrid and open access journals; all Routledge Open Select journals
- UC locations covered: All 10 campuses, LBNL
- Effective dates: January 1, 2024–December 31, 2027
- See full details
University of California Press
- Discount and funding available: APC fully covered (no cost to author)
- Eligible journals: Collabra: Psychology and Elementa
- UC locations covered: All 10 campuses
- Effective dates: Ongoing
- See full details
Wiley
- Discount and funding available:
- 15% discount
- First $1,000 of APC automatically covered
- Full APC covered for authors without funds available for open access publishing
- Eligible journals: All Wiley journals
- UC locations covered: All 10 campuses, LBNL
- Effective dates: March 1, 2023–December 31, 2026
- See full details
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