Publisher OA Agreements and Discounts

This discount only applies to ACS hybrid journals. 

This discount only applies to journals published by BMC and SpringerOpen. 

This discount applies to Open Access BMJ publications.

Gold and Hybrid journal titles 

Cambridge University Hybrid or Gold OA journal

This discount only applies to the following journals:

• Biochemistry and Cell Biology
• Canadian Journal of Physics
• Canadian Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology
• Genome
• Transactions of the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering

This discount applies to all CSP Hybrid Journals EXCEPT Arctic Science, Drone Systems and Applications, and FACETS.

• Development
• Journal of Cell Science
• Journal of Experimental Biology
• Disease Models & Mechanisms
• Biology Open

This discount applies to select Elsevier gold journals. Confirm that the journal you would like to publish in is eligible for this discount by referring to the CRKN-Elsevier eligible gold title list. This will link to an Excel Spreadsheet for your reference. 

EXCLUDED Titles: Cell Press, Lancet, and other society owned journals

This deal applies to select Elsevier hybrid journals. Confirm that the journal you would like to publish in is eligible for this discount by referring to the CRKN-Elsevier eligible hybrid title list. This will download an Excel Spreadsheet for your reference. 

EXCLUDED Titles: Cell Press, Lancet, and other society owned journals

Confirm that the journal you would like to publish in is eligible for this discount by referring to the CRKN-IOPP Title List. This will download an Excel Spreadsheet for your reference. 

Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development (JAFSCD) 

This discount applies to all Karger journals, including Karger's Open Access and hybrid journals (subscription journals with an Open Access option). 

This discount applies to all MDPI journals.

A list of eligible hybrid journals is available for download here. 

• PLOS Biology
• PLOS Climate
• PLOS Complex Systems
• PLOS Computational Biology
• PLOS Digital Health
• PLOS Genetics
• PLOS Global Public Health
• PLOS Medicine
• PLOS Mental Health
• PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases
• PLOS ONE
• PLOS Pathogens
• PLOS Sustainability and Transformation
• PLOS Water

This discount applies to all relevant journals. Please visit Publication Fees and Charges - PNAS for further information.

PNAS Nexus is covered under UTL's Oxford University Press gold journals discount at 10% off the APC. 

 Refer to the RSC hybrid journals list. 

This discount only applies to Sage Choice journals, including the Royal Society of Medicine (RSM) and Institute of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) journals. Refer to the Sage Choice title list for journal titles covered under this agreement. This will download an Excel spreadsheet for  your reference.  

There are a few select journals for which Sage does not offer an open access option that are excluded at this time.

This discount only applies to participating Pure Gold Open Access Journals (List of eligible titles).

This discount only applies to fully open access journals. 

This discount only applies to journals published by SpringerOpen

This discount applies only to Open Select Journals.

These waivers are only applicable to Thieme's Chemistry SynOpen journal.

ONLY Wiley Hybrid Journals (List of eligible titles)

• Articles accepted for publication in Wiley’s gold journals are not eligible under this agreement. Authors will continue to be charged APCs for accepted articles in these journals.
• Eligible article types: case study, commentary, data article, education, lecture, method and protocol, perspective, practice and policy, rapid publication, research article, review article, short communication, and technical note.