Library Support for Open Access Publishing

Subsidizing author publishing fees

The Libraries currently have agreements with the following publishers and publications in order to reduce author publishing charges (APCs) for UW-Madison-affiliated authors.

Membership models and APC discounting programs may be subject to change at any time, so check the publishers’ website before submitting. Contact Carrie Nelson if you have questions about a particular agreement. 

• 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.

• 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.

Support for Scholarly-Controlled Infrastructure

• arXiv
• Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB)
• Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
• Dryad
• HathiTrust
• MIT Press Direct2Open
• Open Library of Humanities
• Punctum Books
• South Asia Open Archives (SAOA)
• University of Michigan Press Fund to Open