Vet Med Library Information: Open Access Subvention Fund

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The University Libraries supports Open Access publishing through discounts and providing funding to offset the costs of article page charges that are a part of Open Access (OA) publishing. See below for more information, or check out the full Open Access Subvention Fund guide.

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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)	Varies (additional savings for ACS members)	Library subscription	ACS Open Access Pricing
BioMed Central	15%	Institutional membership	BMC APC Costs
Cambridge University Press	100%	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
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	15%	Library subscription	RSC Open Access Research
SpringerOpen	15% (Note - Nature-branded journals are not included)	Institutional membership	SpringerOpen Journals
Wiley	100%	VIVA agreement	VIVA Wiley Agreement 2022-2024