We offer support for gold OA through transformative agreements (TAs) and/or article processing charge (APC) discounts.
Starting in Fiscal Year 2024-2025, there is now an account code (606009) that all faculty and staff will use when inputting APC expenses into PeopleSoft. This simple change will allow the university to gather data on APC expenditures, which will be critical to understanding our current and future approaches to supporting Open Access publishing.
When you pay an APC, use the account code 606009 – Article Processing Charges as well as the appropriate fund, department and project code (if applicable).
Fund-Department-Account (606009)-program/project/class (as applicable).
For titles not covered by a transformative agreement, there are sometimes additional APC discounts available.
All of the publishers listed here comply with Tri-Agency open access requirements.
NB: Queens's Authors must self-identify when submitting a manuscript to an open access journal in order to receive any discount on fees.
Available Open Access Discounts
| Publisher |
Transformative Agreement (TA) |
Coverage Provided through TA |
Separate Discount through License |
Links |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) |
No |
N/A |
$250 USD on all ACS hybrid journals |
For detailed instructions on open access publishing with American Chemical Society , please visit the ACS OA Publishing Webpage. |
| Cambridge University Press |
Yes |
All Cambridge gold and hybrid journals |
N/A |
No Link |
| Canadian Science Publishing (CSP) |
Yes |
TA applies to the following five journals: Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Canadian Journal of Physics, Canadian Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology, Genome, Transactions of the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering
|
25% on all CSP hybrid journals not included in the TA. |
No Link |
| Elsevier ScienceDirect |
Yes |
Hybrid only |
Gold Open Access journal discounts by year: 2024: 20%, 2025: 15%, 2026: 15%, 2027: 10% |
Link to Included and Excluded Title List (Spreadsheet File) |
| ICE Publishing |
No |
N/A |
20% discount on gold and hybrid OA journals |
No link |
| Institute of Physics |
Yes |
Most IOP Gold and Hybrid Journals |
N/A |
Link to Included and Excluded Title List (Spreadsheet file) |
| Oxford |
Yes |
Hybrid only |
10% discount on gold journals |
No link |
| PLOS |
No |
N/A |
100% on PLOS Biology and PLOS Medicine journals under the Community Action Publishing (CAP) model. |
No link |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) |
No |
N/A |
15% discount for all RSC hybrid journals |
No link |
| SAGE |
Yes |
All SAGE Choice hybrid journals |
50% discount on most Gold OA Titles |
List of titles not eligible for APC discount (Spreadsheet file) |
| Taylor & Francis |
No |
N/A |
25% discount on Open Select hybrid journals |
No link |
| Wiley |
Yes |
All Wiley hybrid journals |
N/A |
Link to included Title List (Spreadsheet file) |
For more information on publisher OA support visit the Open Access Publishing | Canadian Research Knowledge Network (crkn-rcdr.ca).
Please Ask Us, for more information on open access fees.
