Open Access

OA APC Discounts & Waivers

University of Lethbridge researchers are currently entitled to discounts and waivers on author processing charges (APCs) for open access (OA) journal articles published by certain publishers. These discounts and waivers have been negotiated into agreements by the consortia that manage our licenses with scholarly publishers.

Remember, even if your APC is not discounted or waived by our agreements listed below, some funding agencies treat APC fees as an allowable expense for successful grant applicants. For example, in the Tri-Agency Financial Administration Guide, APCs are an eligible expense under Dissemination of Research Results. 

Finally, if your funding agency will not cover your APC, ULethbridge's Office of Research Services (ORIS) has an Open Access Publishing Fund of up to $1,500 CDN each.

Should you have any questions about these agreements below, be sure to contact your subject librarian.

NEW! Check out this search tool to search our various publisher agreements to find out which journals are included, and at what discount level:

The Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN) has negotiated APC discounts and waivers with the following publishers:

• American Chemical Society
• Cambridge University Press
• Canadian Science Publishing
• Elsevier ScienceDirect
• Institute of Physics
• Oxford University Press
• Royal Society of Chemistry
• SAGE
• Taylor & Francis
• Wiley

See CRKN's page on OA Publishing for more information on these discounts and waivers.

Journals published by The Royal Society are offering a 25% waiver on APC charges for ULethbridge authors. These titles include:
Philosophical Transactions A
Philosophical Transactions B
Interface Focus
Proceedings A
Proceedings B
Interface
Biology Letters
Open Biology
Royal Society Open Science
Notes and Records
Biographical Memoirs