【FY2024 only】APC Support under the "Open Access Acceleration Project"
University of Tsukuba has been selected for the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology's "Open Access Acceleration Project."
Under this project, we will support the "Article Processing Charge (APC)" required to make articles open access for the faculty members of the University of Tsukuba. Please refer to the following website for the conditions of the support, such as the papers to be supported, the period of support, and the amount of support, etc., and make use of the support.
APC Support under the FY2024 "Open Access Acceleration Project" [internal access only]
*Separate APC support is available for submissions to the Japan Institutional gateway (JIG).(→Japan Institutional Gateway (JIG) APC Support Special Campaign [Campus Only])
APC Support by Transformative Agreements
University of Tsukuba has begun transformative agreements that combines e-journal subscriptions and open access publishing fees with the following publishers from January 2025.
Authors can publish their papers open access from January to March 2025 without paying APC, and from April 2025 onwards, by paying a portion of APC.
For all publishers, the corresponding author who will handle the publication process for the paper must be affiliated with the University of Tsukuba. When submitting your paper, please use your University of Tsukuba email address (including the domain ".tsukuba.ac.jp").
* Not all titles from the publishers below are eligible for open access publishing under the transformative agreements. Please be sure to check each company's list of eligible titles to see if they are eligible.
* Each list of eligible titles is updated time to time, so please be sure to check the latest list.
Please see here for details. [internal access only]
| Publisher | period | notes |
| Cambridge University Press | January 1, 2025 - December 31, 2025 | ・Eligible titles ・This applies to papers whose publication is confirmed after the contract start date. |
| Oxford University Press | January 1, 2025 - December 31, 2025 | ・Eligible titles ・After acceptance, papers that arrive at the relevant department at OUP after the contract start date are eligible. |
| Springer Nature | January 1, 2025 - December 31, 2025 | ・Eligible titles (*Nature journals are not eligible.) ・This applies to papers registered in Springer's publication approval system (AAS) after the contract start date. |
| Wiley | January 1, 2025 - December 31, 2025 | ・Eligible titles ・This applies to papers accepted during the contract period. |
| Elsevier （In preparation） | April 1, 2025 - March 31, 2027 | ・Eligible titles (*Journals that published by Cell Press and Lancet titles are not eligible.） ・This applies to papers accepted during the contract period. |
Other APC Waivers and Discounts
Some publishers require authors to pay APC (Article Processing Charge) if they wish to arrange their articles for open access.
Members of University of Tsukuba may be able to receive waivers or discounts of APC based on the contract and subscription of University of Tsukuba.
Please see below for details.
For more information about APC discounts, please refer to each publisher’s website. (Library does not coordinate.)
The information listed below is what Library has gathered. In addition, if the author is a member of an academic society that publishes the journal, the author may be able to receive APC discounts. Please refer to the website of each journal when you submit articles.
University of Tsukuba requires to unify the method of inputting the expenditure on article submission (including APC) to FAIR Financial Accounting System.
For more information, please refer to the notice on March 10, 2021. (listed on the exclusive site for faculty and staff of University of Tsukuba)(in Japanese)
| PUBLISHER | JOURNAL TITLE | NOTES |
|---|---|---|
| American Chemical Society (ACS) | All titles | Members of University of Tsukuba can get APC discounts because University of Tsukuba is the “Subscribing Institution”. If the author is a member of ACS, the discount rate is even higher. Details: https://acsopenscience.org |
| De Gruyter | Eligible Title List [Excel](72KB) | If the corresponding author is a member of University of Tsukuba, the author can get 10% APC discount. Articles accepted by December 2024 are eligible for the APC discount. Please use an email address with the “tsukuba.ac.jp” domain when submitting articles. APC discount applies to all journals in the left title list. The file has 2 tabs: "Pure OA" and "Hybrid OA". ・Guide for Authors (in Japanese) [PDF](1.3MB) ・Details: https://www.degruyter.com/publishing/publications/openaccess/open-access-articles |
| Microbiology Society | All titles | A promotional code for a 10% discount on APCs is currently available. (Valid until June 2025) Anyone can use the code whether the University subscribes each journals or not. Details: https://www.usaco.co.jp/Portals/0/images/product/MS/202309_MS_Code.pdf (in Japanese) |
| National Academy of Sciences | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS) | If the corresponding author is a member of University of Tsukuba and chooses the open access option, the author can get an APC discount. Details: https://www.pnas.org/authors/fees-and-licenses |