APC Discounts

APC Discounts

UTL has negotiated discounts for our researchers with a number of publishers. These discounts help to reduce the financial obligations on faculty. Last updated: April 2019

Questions? Email scholarly.communications@library.utoronto.ca 

American Chemical Society (ACS)

ACS Author's Choice offers researchers who choose to publish Open Access a 25% discount, across their various publishing options:

  1. Immediate Open Access: original cost: $4000; reduced cost: $3000

  2. 12 month embargo before becoming Open Access: $2000; reduced cost: $1500

Authors who are also individual members of ACS, are eligible for a compounded discount of approx. 62%:

  1. Immediate Open Access: original Cost: $2000; reduced cost: $1500

  2. 12 month embargo before becoming Open Access: original cost: $1000; reduced cost: $750 

Creative Commons Licenses can be purchased at a discount of 50% as well. 

Once an invoice is paid, ACS is unable to offer refunds. Please apply for all applicable discounts before paying. 

American Society of Plant Biologists

Immediate Open Access can be purchased for $950 USD. However, all articles become open access after 12 months. More information is available here.

BioMed Central

University of Toronto authors are eligible for a 15% discount on APCs for articles published in BioMed Central, SpringerOpen, and Chemistry Central journals. Instructions on how to apply the discount to your manuscript submission available here. 

Once an invoice is paid, BMC is unable to offer refunds. Please apply for all applicable discounts before paying. 

Cambridge University Press

University of Toronto authors are eligible for 20% off APCs for articles published in Cambridge University Press journals. In order to obtain the discount code, please email scholarly.communications@library.utoronto.ca.

Canadian Science Publishing

CSP offers a 50% discount to University of Toronto authors who choose to publish Open Access via the OpenArticle option. Original APCs of $3000 are reduced to $1500. For more information, contact pubs@cdnsciencepub.com or visit this link.

Chemistry Central

University of Toronto authors receive 15% off APCs for articles published in Chemistry Central journals. Instructions on how to apply the discount to your manuscript submission available here. 

Journal of Experimental Botany

A 100% reduction in fees is available to University of Toronto researchers. This discount is applied automatically to your manuscript upon submission.

Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)

U of T authors are eligible to receive 10% off APCs in MDPI journals. If you are submitting your manuscript using your University of Toronto email address then this discount will be applied automatically, otherwise authors will be prompted in the last step of submission to select the name of their institution from a drop-down menu.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Science

U of T researchers receive a 25% reduction in APC costs, from $1450 to $1150. This discount is applied automatically to your manuscript upon submission.

SAGE

University of Toronto authors are eligible for up to a 40% discount on APCs as part of SAGE's agreement with the Canadian Research Knowledge Network. In order to obtain the discount code, the author must email APCQueries@sagepub.com and SAGE will provide a unique code to apply to their order.

SPIE

U of T authors receive a 25% discount on APC costs as part of SPIE Digital Library Subscription. This discount is applied automatically once a paper is accepted for publication. This discount applies to any paper that has at least one author (primary or secondary) who belongs to a subscribing institution. This discount only applies to fully open access journals. For more information, visit the SPIE Journals Open Access webpage. 

SpringerOpen

University of Toronto authors receive a 15% discount on APCs for articles published in SpringerOpen journals. Instructions on how to apply the discount to your manuscript submission available here. 

Once an invoice is paid, BMC is unable to offer refunds. Please apply for all applicable discounts before paying. 

Thieme

Limited APC waivers are available for U of T authors publishing in Thieme journals. In order to obtain the waiver, please email scholarly.communications@library.utoronto.ca.