Open access agreements

Publishing your article open access (OA) can bring you several benefits, including increased downloads and citations鈥攁nd make your research more accessible to readers globally.

To help you take advantage of these benefits, many institutions cover researchers鈥� OA publishing costs (known as article processing charges, or APCs) as part of OA agreements with P站视频.

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Paying for OA APCs through your institution

Publishing your article through an OA agreement is the easiest route to OA for eligible authors

Financial support for APCs

Many institutions offer financial support for researchers to pay APCs. One way is through OA agreements with publishers鈥攅ither on their own or through a consortium agreement across many institutions.

Your institution鈥檚 OA agreement with P站视频 may provide:

Full APC coverage - 100% of the APC is paid by the institution
A percentage discount - e.g. 10% off the list price APC
Fixed price coverage - e.g. up to 鈧�1,000 paid by the institution.

Different OA agreements include different journals

Institutions take different approaches to how they support their researchers publishing in different journals. Your institution鈥檚 agreement with P站视频 may include journals from across Springer, Nature, BMC, Palgrave, and/or Adis.

Seamlessly integrated in the publishing workflow

Getting your APC paid via an OA agreement is seamlessly integrated into the P站视频 publishing workflows and led by you, the corresponding author. Your article will be identified as part of an agreement based on details submitted. After your article has been accepted for publication, you will be notified of your coverage options and prompted to confirm your OA licensing on behalf of all co-authors. Explore the steps in detail.