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Making Your Publications Open Access

Open and sustainable publishing models enable the sharing of scholarship at reasonable costs. By making your publications Open Access you increase their impact and ensure they are available to a wider audience.

Open Access Publishing Fees - Support

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 Effective Dates
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. January 1, 2025 - December 31, 2025
Cambridge University Press Yes 
 		 All Cambridge gold and hybrid journals N/A No Link January 1, 2025 - December 31, 2026
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 January 1, 2023 - December 31, 2025
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)  January 1, 2024 - December 31, 2026
ICE Publishing No N/A 20% discount on gold and hybrid OA journals No link January 1, 2025 - December 31, 2025
Institute of Physics Yes Most IOP Gold and Hybrid Journals N/A Link to Included and Excluded Title List (Spreadsheet file) January 1, 2025 - December 31, 2027
Oxford Yes Hybrid only 10% discount on gold journals No link January 1, 2024 - December 31, 2026
 PLOS No N/A 100% on PLOS Biology and PLOS Medicine journals under the Community Action Publishing (CAP) model. No link January 1, 2025 - December 31, 2025
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) Yes All RCS Gold and Hybrid Journals N/A No link January 1, 2025 - December 31, 2027
SAGE Yes All SAGE Choice hybrid journals 50% discount on most Gold OA titles List of titles not eligible for APC discount (Spreadsheet file) January 1, 2024 - Deccember 31, 2026
Taylor & Francis No N/A 25% discount on Open Select hybrid journals No link January 1, 2025 - December 31, 2026
Wiley Yes All Wiley hybrid journals 10% discount on most Gold OA titles Link to included Title List (Spreadsheet file) January 1, 2025 - December 31, 2026

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.