Support for Open Access publishing at Concordia
Institutional memberships and discounts for Concordia authors
Biochemical Society
Concordia University Library approved a Read & Publish agreement with Biochemical Society, effective January 1, 2025 – December 31, 2025 (This is a non-consortial agreement). Concordia University-affiliated authors can publish in these journals with no APCs: Biochemical Journal, Clinical Science, Biochemical Society Transactions, Essays in Biochemistry, Emerging Topics in Life Sciences, and Bioscience Reports. .
BioMed (part of Springer Nature)
Concordia University Library purchased an institutional membership to BioMed. Concordia authors publishing in BioMed and SpringerOpen journals are eligible for a 15% discount on the article-processing charge (APC). Review the submission guidelines for submitting on- and off-campus.
American Chemical Society (ACS)
Institutional membership with ASC is part of the Canadian Research Knowledge Network's CRKN Open Access Publishing. Concordia authors are eligible to receive a 250 USD discount on the APC for all ASC hybrid journals upon manuscript acceptance. Consult the ACS's How to Publish Open Access page.
Cambridge University Press
Institutional membership with Cambridge is part of the Canadian Research Knowledge Network's CRKN Open Access Publishing. Concordia authors are eligible to publish an unlimited number of their articles as open access in all Cambridge hybrid and gold journals without APC fees for the duration of the (2022-2024) agreement. Use your Concordia email address for eligibility and consult Cambridge's step-by-step guide.
Canadian Science Publishing
An institutional membership with Canadian Science Publishing is part of Canadian Research Knowledge Network's CRKN Open Access Publishing. Concordia authors are eligible to receive a 25% discount on the article processing charge (APC) for all CSP Hybrid journals. Authors must indicate their institutional affiliation.
Company of Biologists
A three-year institutional agreement (2024-2026) with the Company of Biologists offers Concordia authors an uncapped number of APC waivers in 3 hybrid journals (Development, Journal of Cell Science and Journal of Experimental Biology) and 2 fully OA journals (Disease Models & Mechanisms and Biology Open). Details are available on the Company of Biologist’s library hub.
Elsevier ScienceDirect
An institutional membership with Elsevier ScienceDirect is part of the CRKN Open Access Publishing. Corresponding Concordia authors receive a 20% APC discount for gold OA titles and APC waivers for the 1,800 hybrid journals under the renewed agreement.
Frontiers
Concordia University Library has an institutional membership with Frontiers, one of the most cited research publishers with over 100 journals. Concordia authors can publish in any Frontiers journal with a 15% discount on APCs. The author must use their Concordia University email address when submitting their article. Upon final acceptance of the article, the Concordia-affiliated author will receive the APC discount.
IEEE
Concordia University Library has an institutional membership with IEEE, the world's largest professional association for the advancement of technology. Concordia-affiliated researchers are eligible for a 15% discount on APCs. The only journal not eligible for an additional affiliation discount is the IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing (JSTARS). Concordia-affiliated authors must go through the authors' workflow as described in the RightsLink Quick Reference Guide: Completing Author Charges Orders. The "Discounts applied" label should signal that the 15% discount has been applied.
Institute of Physics (IOP) Publishing
An institutional membership with IOP is part of the Canadian Research Knowledge Network's CRKN Open Access Publishing. Concordia authors are eligible to publish in a range of journals without APC costs, though some publishing costs may still apply. Concordia authors must indicate their institutional affiliation upon manuscript submission to benefit. Either in the peer-review process or upon acceptance, authors will also be asked to agree to a Creative Commons CC BY licence. Find out about eligible journals and how to take advantage of the agreement.
MPDI
Concordia University Library has an institutional membership with MPDI. As part of MPDI's Institutional Open Access Program (IOAP), Concordia authors are eligible for a 10% discount on APCs, which will be confirmed upon manuscript submission. Please note that this IOAP discount cannot be used in conjunction with other discounts available in MDPI journals. Concordia authors must use their institutional email to benefit. All MPDI articles are published under a Creative Commons CC BY licence. For more information, see MDPI's APC Information FAQ.
Oxford University Press
An institutional membership with Canadian Science Publishing is part of CRKN Open Access Publishing. Concordia authors are eligible to receive APC waivers for eligible hybrid journals and a 10% APC discount on gold OA Oxford journal titles. Details are available on the CRKN website.
PLOS Community Action Publishing (CAP)
An institutional membership with CAP is part of the Canadian Research Knowledge Network's CRKN Open Access Publishing. Concordia authors are eligible to publish an unlimited number of articles without APC costs in PLOS Biology and PLOS Medicine under the Community Action Publishing (CAP) model. Concordia authors must indicate their institutional affiliation upon manuscript submission to benefit.
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
An institutional membership with the Royal Society of Chemistry is part of the Canadian Research Knowledge Network's CRKN Open Access Publishing. Concordia authors are eligible for a 15% discount on the APC for all RSC hybrid journals. The APC discount is applied upon acceptance of the manuscript. Concordia authors must indicate their institutional affiliation upon manuscript submission to benefit.
SAGE
An institutional membership with Sage is part of the Canadian Research Knowledge Network's CRKN Open Access Publishing. Concordia authors may publish their articles as open access in over 900 SAGE Choice journals (see list of journals excluded from SAGE Choice). Authors may also use a 40% APC discount to publish in SAGE's gold open access journals (see list of participating gold journals). When corresponding authors identify themselves as affiliated with a participating CRKN institution (e.g., Concordia), processing the APC waiver for SAGE Choice journals and the discount for gold open access journals is done automatically via the SAGE Open Access Portal (SOAP). SOAP is a dashboard for authors to submit their article, select a copyright licence, assign a bill payer (if applicable), and view article status. The Creative Commons licence CC BY will be applied to open access publications unless the author requests a different licence. Important: where an author is eligible for more than one discount for gold journals, discounts cannot be combined, but the highest discount available to the author will be applied to the APC due.
Taylor & Francis
An institutional membership with Taylor and Francis is part of the Canadian Research Knowledge Network's CRKN Open Access Publishing. Concordia authors are eligible for a 25% discount on APCs in Taylor & Francis Open Select journals. The APC will be automatically discounted based on the organization name used by the author when submitting their article.
Wiley
An institutional membership with Wiley is part of the Canadian Research Knowledge Network's CRKN Open Access Publishing. Concordia authors are able to publish their articles open access in all Wiley hybrid journals for the duration of the agreement (2023-2024). Please review the step-by-step guide to open-access publishing for authors.
