VT Open Access Subvention Fund: Discounts
VT Libraries offer an open access (OA) fund to subsidize article processing charges (APCs) for scholarly, peer-reviewed OA journals. This guide includes the request form, fund guidelines, and links to finding OA journals and publishers' OA policies.
Discounts available to Virginia Tech authors
| Publisher/Journal | Open Access discount | Discount based on | More information |
|---|---|---|---|
| Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) | 100% | VIVA agreement | VIVA ACM Open Access Agreement |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) | 100% - new for 2024 | VIVA agreement | VIVA ACS Read and Publish Agreement |
| BioMed Central | 15% | Institutional membership | BMC APC Costs |
| Cambridge University Press | 100% - now including Cambridge Prisms and Cambridge Research Directions for 2024 | VIVA agreement | VIVA Cambridge University Press Agreement |
| Cogitatio Press | 100% | Institutional membership | Cogitatio Institutional Membership |
| Electrochemical Society | 100% | Library subscription | ECS Free the Science Initiative |
| Ergo | 100% | Institutional membership | Ergo Support |
| Institute of Physics | 100% | VIVA agreement | VIVA IOP Agreement |
| International Water Association | 100% (discount not applicable to Water Research, published by Elsevier) | VIVA agreement | IWA Instructions for Authors |
| MDPI | 10% | Institutional membership | MDPI Institutional Open Access Program |
| PeerJ, PeerJCompSci | 100% | Institutional membership | PeerJ Info for Virginia Tech |
| PLOS | 100% - new for 2024. Covers PLOS One and six other PLOS Journals including Complex Systems, Computational Biology, Digital Health, Genetics, Neglected Tropical Diseases, and Pathogens | VIVA membership | Flat Fee Agreement |
| Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | $500 savings for immediate open access | Library subscription | PNAS Open Access |
| Rockefeller University Press journals | 100% | VIVA agreement | RUP Instructions for Authors |
| Royal Society | 25% | Institutional membership | Royal Society Open Access Membership |
| Royal Society of Chemistry Publishing | 100% - new for 2024 | Library subscription | Read and Publish |
| Springer | 100% for eligible journals - Nature-branded journals are not included | VIVA agreement | Springer Nature Transformative Agreement |
| SpringerOpen | 15% (Note - Nature-branded journals are not included) | Institutional membership | SpringerOpen Journals |
| Wiley | 100% | VIVA agreement | VIVA Wiley Agreement 2022-2024 |