OA Membership and APC Support Guide
The POSTECH Academic Information Team actively supports open access publishing by operating various membership programs and transformative agreements to increase the visibility of the university’s research output and promote open access.
OA Site
| Title | Content | # of Tocken |
|---|---|---|
| ACM Open | Full APC waiver (unlimited) when submitting to all ACM journals due to ACM Open journal subscription 1) Applied Journals: ACM journals 2) How to Use: If the author’s affiliation is confirmed as POSTECH, an institutional waiver option will be presented | Unlimited |
| BioMed Central & SpringerOpen | 15% discount on APC when publishing in BioMed Central, SpringerOpen journals due to POSTECH’s BMC Supporter membership 1) Applied Journals – BMC Journal List: https://www.biomedcentral.com/journals-a-z – SpringerOpen Journal List: https://www.springeropen.com/journals-a-z (Applies only to some of SpringerNature Full OA journals) 2) How to Use: Automatic authentication when submitting within the institution’s IP range or institutional code authentication (Details: https://www.biomedcentral.com/p/submission-guidelines-for-members) | Unlimited |
| Cambridge University Press | Full APC waiver (unlimited) when submitting to Cambridge University Press journals due to Cambridge University Press Read & Publish subscription 1)Applied Journals – List: https ://www.cambridge.org/core/services/open-access-policies/waivers-discounts – How to Use: If the author’s affiliation is confirmed as POSTECH, an institutional waiver option will be presented | Unlimited |
| Company of Biologists | Full APC waiver (unlimited) due to Company of Biologists Read & Publish subscription 1) Applied Journals: Company of Biologists 저널 5종(Development, Journal of Cell Science, Journal of Experimental Biology, Disease Models & Mechanisms, Biology Open) 2) How to Use: Waiver if the author’s affiliation is confirmed as POSTECH | Unlimited |
| RSC (Royal Society of Chemistry) | Full APC waiver when submitting to RSC hybrid journals due to RSC PAR subscription 1) Applied Journals: View List 2) How to Use: If the author’s affiliation is confirmed as POSTECH, an institutional waiver option will be presented 3) Support Method: First-come, first-served support (13 cases) exhausted | 2/14 |
| SCOAP3 | SCOAP3 (Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics): Open Access and article processing charge is lifted for 11 journals in the field of high energy physics by sharing costs worldwide 1) Applied Journals: Acta Physica Polonica B Advances in High Energy Physics Chinese Physics C European Physical Journal C Journal of High Energy Physics Nuclear Physics B Physics Letters B Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics Physical Review C Physical Review D Physical Review Letter | Unlimited |
| Springer | Full APC waiver (55 Articles) due to Transformative Agreement 1) Applied Journals: View List 2) How to Publish 3) Support Measures (First Half, until June): . One article per corresponding author . Limited to journals in the top 50% (Q1, Q2) based on JCR 2023ed . Within the support measures, approval is on a first-come, first-served basis; restrictions may be lifted in the second half depending on usage. | 4/55 |
| Wiley | Full APC waiver (55 Articles) due to Transformative Agreement 1) Applied Journals: View List 2) How to Publish 3) Support Measures (First Half, until June): . Support limited by departmental quota . Support limited to one article per corresponding author . Support limited to journals in the top 25% (Q1) based on JCR 2023ed * Articles published in January or February 2025 should be published in Non-OA (Subscription Only) to be converted to OA for free. (Refunds for articles published as paid OA are not possible) | 6/55 |