Brown University currently has agreements with these publishers that waive the fee for Brown corresponding authors publishing immediate open access in their journals included in the agreements. Several publishers below allow authors to select an open access Creative Commons License - email open@brown for assistance with selecting or distinguishing among license options as well as assistance with identifying journals and article types included in the agreements.
- Elsevier Read how to opt in and request waiver and eligible hybrid journals and article types here
- Cambridge University Press (CUP) Read how to opt in and request waiver and eligible journals and article types here.
- Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) Read how to opt in and request waiver here.
- ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) Read how to opt in and request waiver here.
- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press (CSHL) Read how to opt in and request waiver here.
- Microbiology Society (MS) Read how to opt in and request waiver here.
- The Company of Biologists Read how to opt in and request waiver here.
Brown Memberships and Discounts
- Brown University community members currently receive a 15% discount on open access fees charged to authors by BioMed Central (BMC) and SpringerOpen. Read how to apply discount here.
- Brown has an institutional fellowship with BMJ Case Reports that waives manuscript submission fee (n.b., there is an additional optional fee for authors opting into open access after submission). Contact open@brown to get the fellowship code for free submission. Read how to apply institutional fellowship waiver here.
