American Society for Microbiology: APCs are waived and discounts are available for standard page charges and supplemental material fees. Only applies to the six participating journals.

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM): Corresponding authors from UW-Madison can publish open access at no additional cost in any of ACM’s research publications, including technical magazines, conference proceedings, and journals.

Biochemical Society (through Portland Press): UW-Madison Libraries are participating in the Biochemical Society’s read and publish pilot program. Through our participation, all articles accepted for publication from UW-Madison corresponding authors through 2026 are free of any APC charges. More details about what to expect as an author are available at the Portland Press Read and Publish information page.

Cambridge University Press: (CUP) Research articles, review articles, rapid communications, brief reports, and case reports with a UW-Madison-affiliated corresponding author are eligible to publish their work OA in CUP Gold or Hybrid OA journals (downloadable list) with no fee. Link your account to our institution for access.

Canadian Science Publishing: Corresponding authors from UW-Madison may publish any article type OA in CSP’s hybrid journals at no additional cost. This agreement covers articles published between 2025 and 2027.

IOP Publishing: Corresponding authors from UW-Madison may publish OA in eligible IOP (Institute of Physics) journals, including 58 hybrid titles and 18 fully OA journals, at no additional cost. To qualify for no-cost OA publication, the article must be accepted in an eligible IOP journal between January 1, 2023 and December 31, 2025.

Microbiology Society: Corresponding authors from UW-Madison may publish OA in all Microbiology Society journals at no additional cost. To qualify for no-cost OA publication, the article must be accepted between January 1, 2023 and December 31, 2025

PLOS Medicine and PLOS Biology: Through an agreement negotiated by the Big Ten Academic Alliance, research articles with a UW-Madison-affiliated corresponding author (or a corresponding author from another PLOS Community Action Program-member institution) will not be charged an APC. If the corresponding author is not a PLOS CAP member, UW-Madison’s membership entitles the article to a discount. For more information, see Community Action Publishing FAQs on the PLOS website.

SCOAP3 (Assorted High Energy Physics) Journals: No cost to authors to publish. Fees are covered by a a partnership of over 3,000 libraries, key funding agencies and research centers in 44 countries and 3 intergovernmental organizations supporting open access publishing in key journals in the field of High-Energy Physics.

Wiley: The three-year agreement, effective as of January 1, 2023, grants fourteen participating universities and seventeen affiliated campuses access to publish and read in Wiley’s full journal portfolio, including Hindawi’s gold open access portfolio. Under this new agreement, lead authors at all campuses covered by the agreement will be able to publish their articles as open access, ensuring that their research will be immediately open and available to the public and that they will retain rights to their own work. Article publications are free of charge, eliminating the need for authors to pay publication fees.