Open Access Publishing and Public Repositories

UW authors receive a 15% discount on the article-processing charges of all research articles accepted for publication in BioMed Central.
Directions:

• Within the UW IP range: when you submit a manuscript, the discount will be automatically applied.
  
• Outside the UW IP range: when you submit a manuscript, select the option "I believe that I am covered by an institutional membership arrangement" on the APC Agreement page.  Then select "University of Washington" from the institution drop-down list.

The University of Washington and its PNW partners in the Orbis Cascade Alliance have entered into a transformative “read and publish” agreement with Cambridge University Press to promote open access publishing. The agreement is effective January 1, 2021 to December 31, 2023.

• The agreement provides a complete waiver on all Article Processing Charges (APCs) for UW corresponding authors publishing in a Cambridge journal with an open access publishing option.
  
• UW-affiliated corresponding authors must indicate their UW institutional affiliation at the time of submission. We highly recommend that authors also use their UW email address to help confirm their UW affiliation.
  
• UW authors interested in publishing in Cambridge journals can find a useful overview of the agreement and how it works in the Read and Publish agreement with the Orbis Cascade Alliance.

The University of Washington has entered into a three-year Read and Publish agreement with the Company of Biologists, effective January 1, 2023. The transformative agreement provides current UW-affiliated users access to the entire COB archive and covers 100% of the costs for UW corresponding authors publishing in its five journals - Development, Journal of Cell Science, Journal of Experimental Biology, Disease Models & Mechanisms, and Biology Open. Under the terms of the Read and Publish agreement:

• Authors retain their copyright and are required to assign an exclusive license to COB
  
• Articles are published under a Creative Commons CC-BY 4.0 License
  
• All articles published via Read & Publish will automatically be deposited in PubMed Central.

UW has signed a read and publish agreement with De Gruyter Publishing, effective January 1, 2023. The new transformational agreement (1) provides UW users access to the De Gruyter Complete eJournal Collection and (2) covers 100% of the article processing charges (APCs) for UW corresponding authors publishing in De Gruyter’s “hybrid” journals (subscription journals that provide authors the option to pay to publish their articles open access). The waiver does not apply to De Gruyter’s Gold open access journals. Articles are published under a Creative Commons CC-BY license.

"Beginning in 2023, JAMA and all of the journals in the JAMA Network will adopt a new policy that permits authors of original research investigations to deposit their accepted manuscript in a public repository of their choosing immediately on the day that the manuscript is published by the JAMA Network." Learn more about the UW's institutional repository.

UW authors receive a 10% discount on article-processing charges.
Directions:

• In the last step of submission, authors are prompted to determine if they are eligible for discounts under the Institutional Open Access Program (IOAP).
  
• Within the UW network IP range, the IOAP is pre-selected
  
• Outside the UW IP range, select University of Washington from the Institutional drop-down menu.

Effective February 1, 2023, UW has expanded its Read and Publish agreement with PLOS to provide APC-free publishing for UW corresponding authors publishing in all PLOS journals. Under the terms of the expanded agreement:

• 100% of the Article Processing Charge (APC) is covered for eligible UW corresponding authors. The UW author must be the submitting author to waive the APC.
  
• Articles are published under a Creative Commons CC-BY 4.0 License.

UW authors receive a 15% discount on the article-processing charges of all research articles accepted for publication in SpringerOpen journals.
Directions:

• Within the UW IP range: when you submit a manuscript, the discount will be automatically applied.
  
• Outside the UW IP range: when you submit a manuscript, select the option "I believe that I am covered by an institutional membership arrangement" on the APC Agreement page.  Then select "University of Washington" from the institution drop-down list.

Find more open access discounts and funding opportunities provided by the UW Libraries.