CityU APC Deals
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For OA publishing (Gold OA), authors are usually required to pay the Article Processing Charges (APCs), which are not small sums. The Library has negotiated a number of APC deals to secure APC waivers or discounts for our CityU authors. To enjoy the offers, please take note of the following:
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For the journal title "Communications on Pure and Applied Analysis" published by American Institute of Mathematical Sciences (AIMS), CityU members can publish gold open access free of charges if fulfilling the following requirements upon manuscript submission:
Being as a member of City University of Hong Kong, I would like to publish open access free of charge in this journal "Communications on Pure and Applied Analysis" under the Open Subscription agreement between AIMS and my University. |
Information was provided by the vendor and compiled in Jan 2023. Please refer to the publisher website for latest updates.
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With the signed Publish and Read Agreement between CityU and The Company of Biologists, CityU members can publish open access free of charge in The Company of Biologists journals, given the following requirements are fulfilled:
All open access articles published under the agreement shall:
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The Company of Biologists journal titles
| Journal Name | Journal Impact Factor | Journal CiteScore |
| Development | 4.6 | 8.7 |
| Journal of Cell Science | 4.0 | 7.8 |
| Journal of Experimental Biology | 2.8 | 5.5 |
| Disease Models & Mechanisms (DMM) | 4.3 | 7.5 |
| Biology Open (BiO) | 2.4 | 4.7 |
Last update: July 2023. Please refer to the publisher website for latest updates.
(Journal metrics of 2022)
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With the signed Publish and Read Agreement between CityU and Microbiology Society, CityU members can publish open access free of charge in Microbiology Society journals, given the following requirements are fulfilled:
Articles published in Microbiology Society journals where the corresponding author is from CityU will be published OA by default under the CC BY license. |
Microbiology Society journal titles
| Journal Name | Journal Impact Factor | Journal CiteScore |
| Access Microbiology* | -- | -- |
| International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology | 2.8 | 4.5 |
| Journal of General Virology | 3.8 | 7.9 |
| Journal of Medical Microbiology | 3.0 | 5.2 |
| Microbial Genomics | 3.9 | 6.0 |
| Microbiology | 2.8 | 5.0 |
* Launched in 2019, Access Microbiology is an open research platform that supports the publication of replication studies, negative or null results, research proposals, data management plans, additions to established methods, case reports, software development, educational and outreach methods, and interdisciplinary work.
Last update: July 2023. Please refer to the publisher website for latest updates.
(Journal metrics of 2022)
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Benefited from CityU's participation in the Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute's (MDPI) Institutional Open Access Program (IOAP), CityU authors can enjoy a 10% discount on the Article Processing Charge (APC) or Book Processing Charge (BPC) for any journal articles or books published in OA. To enable MDPI to identify your CityU affiliation and grant the OA discount, please use your CityU email address for the manuscript submission. The latest APC charges for specific journals and details on APC arrangements are available under "Article Processing Charges (APC) Information" on MDPI's website. |
Information was provided by the vendor in Aug 2020 and updated in Jan 2023. Please refer to the publisher website for latest updates.
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CityU as a subscriber to the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS) is offered an APC discount of US$500 for each OA publication from an author who can fulfil the following requirements:
Please refer to PNAS Author Center for more information. |
Information was provided by the vendor and compiled in Jan 2023. Please refer to the publisher website for latest updates.
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Corresponding authors of CityU (with CityU emails as main contact) enjoy a 15% discount in APC for publishing in journals included in the RSC Gold Package of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC). |
RSC Gold Package
Information was provided by the vendor and compiled in Jul 2023. Please refer to the journal websites for latest updates.
(Journal metrics of 2022)
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CityU authors can publish high energy physics related articles in SCOAP3 (Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics) journals for free as CityU is a member of JULAC (Joint University Librarians Advisory Committee), which is in partnership with SCOAP3. Please refer to the following list of journals for details. |
SCOAP3 journal titles
| Journal Name | Publisher | Journal Impact Factor | Journal CiteScore | Eligibility for SCOAP3 Funding | Related Links |
| The European Physical Journal C (EPJC) | Springer | 4.4 | 8.3 | All articles will be published free of charge. APCs are completely covered by SCOAP3 | Link |
| The Journal of High Energy Physics (JHEP) | Springer & SISSA-Trieste Italy | 5.4 | 10.3 | Link | |
| Nuclear Physics B (NPB) | Elsevier | 2.8 | 5.8 | Link | |
| Physics Letters B (PLB) | Elsevier | 4.4 | 9.8 | Link | |
| Physical Review C (PRC) | APS Physics | 3.1 | 5.7 | Only High-Energy Physics (HEP) articles that are submitted by their authors to arXiv.org (the preprint server) with a primary category in high-energy physics (i.e. hep-ex, hep-lat, hep-ph, or hep-th) will be published free of charge and have the APCs covered by SCOAP3 | Link |
| Physical Review D (PRD) | APS Physics | 5.0 | 9.2 | ||
| Physical Review Letters (PRL) | APS Physics | 8.6 | 17 | ||
| Advances in High Energy Physics (AHEP) | Hindawi | 1.7 | 3.5 | Link | |
| Chinese Physics C (CPC) | IOP Publishing | 3.6 | 5.2 | Link | |
| Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics (PTEP) | Oxford and JPS | 3.5 | 9.0 | Link | |
| Acta Physica Polonica B (APPB) | Jagiellonian University in cooperation with the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences | 0.5 | 1.5 | Link |
Information was provided by the vendor and compiled in Jul 2023. Please refer to the journal websites for latest updates.
(Journal metrics of 2022)
