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Funding of Article Processing Charges (APCs)
Many funding agencies explicitly allow the use of research grants for the payment of Article Processing Charges (APCs) to publish in open access journals or of Book Processing Charges (BPCs) to publish open access books. In addition, numerous institutes have created central funds to cover APCs and BPCs.
General Resources for Open Access Funding:
- Sherpa Juliet is a searchable database of research funders' open access policies.
- The Open Access Directory maintains a list of institutional funds for open access publishing.
- SPARC maintains a list of North American universities and university libraries that have created open access funds.
Research funders that endorse Open Access publishing:
- In Australia
- In Austria
- In Belgium
- In Bulgaria
- In Canada
- In China
- In Croatia
- In Cyprus
- In Czech Republic
- In Denmark
- In Estonia
- In Ethiopia
- In Europe in general
- In Finland
- In France
- In Germany
- In Greece
- In Hungary
- In Iceland
- In Ireland
- In Israel
- In Italy
- In Japan
- In Kenya
- In Latvia
- In Lithuania
- In Luxembourg
- In Mexico
- In the Netherlands
- In Norway
- In Portugal
- In Singapore
- In Slovakia
- In Slovenia
- In Spain
- In South Africa
- In Sweden
- In Switzerland
- In Turkey
- In the United Kingdom
- In the USA
- Religions
- Econometrics
- Games
- Laws
- Social Sciences
- Humanities
- Risks
- Societies
- International Journal of Financial Studies
Authors affiliated with an institute participating in our open access program receive discounts on APCs:
The MDPI Institutional Open Access Program (IOAP) provides discounts on the APCs to authors from participating institutes. During submission of an article, the author can select and confirm the affiliation directly in our online system. If a participant provides us with the IP range information of the institute, an automatic pre-selection can be made in the system.
The corresponding or leading authors of a paper must be associated with the listed institutes to benefit of the discount. The institute can decide if the APCs are to be paid centrally (central invoicing), or paid in full by the authors (non-central invoicing).
The full list of existing IOAP participants can be found here.
Open Access initiatives also help authors with publishing costs:
MDPI is proud to participate in the Knowledge Unlatched (KU) initiative, which covers Article Processing Charges (APCs) for papers in Humanities and Social Sciences titles through a crowd-funding mechanism.
As of 2018, APCs for some articles published in the following MDPI journals are covered via the KU funding mechanism:
This is a pilot program experimenting ways to support authors to submit and publish for free in open access.
A number of institutions around the world have kindly participated in this initiative and we would like to thank them for generously providing their support and contribution:
James Cook University | Australia | |
MacQuarie University | Australia | |
Queensland University of Technology | Australia | |
University of New England | Australia | |
La Trobe University | Australia | |
University of Melbourne | Australia | |
University of Queensland | Australia | |
University of South Australia | Australia | |
Memorial University of Newfoundland | Canada | |
Simon Fraser University | Canada | |
University of Guelph | Canada | |
University of Toronto | Canada | |
York University (CA) | Canada | |
McGill University | Canada | |
Dartmouth College | United States | |
Denison University | United States | |
East Carolina University | United States | |
Grand Valley State University | United States | |
Indiana University Bloomington | United States | |
Iowa State University | United States | |
Macalester College | United States | |
Smith College | United States | |
SUNY at Albany | United States | |
Temple University | United States | |
University of California Berkeley | United States | |
University of California San Diego | United States | |
University of California Los Angeles | United States | |
University of California Merced | United States | |
University of Colorado Boulder | United States | |
University of Denver | United States | |
University of Oregon | United States | |
University of Texas System | United States | |
Washburn University | United States | |
Williams College | United States | |
University of Rhode Island | United States | |
Duke University | United States | |
Harvard University | United States | |
Kenyon College | United States | |
Purdue University | United States | |
University of Kansas | United States | |
University of Virginia | United States | |
Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) (Ruhr University Bochum) | Germany | |
Universitätsbibliothek der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Humboldt University Berlin) | Germany | |
Universitätsbibliothek Marburg | Germany | |
Universitätsbibliothek Potsdam | Germany | |
Freie Universität Berlin (FU) (Free University of Berlin) | Germany | |
Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main (University of Frankfurt/M) | Germany | |
Technische Universität (TU) Berlin (Technical University Berlin) | Germany | |
Fernuniversität Hagen (University of Hagen) | Germany | |
Max Planck Digital Library | Germany | |
Universitätsbibliothek Bern (University Library of Berne) | Switzerland | |
University of St. Gallen | Switzerland | |
Zentralbibliothek Zürich (Central Library of Zurich) | Switzerland | |
Ashesi University College | Ghana | |
John Cabot University | Italy | |
Tilburg University | Netherlands | |
Universiteit van Amsterdam | Netherlands | |
Forman Christian College | Pakistan | |
Örebro University | Sweden | |
Stockholm University | Sweden | |
Cardiff University | United Kingdom | |
The British Library | United Kingdom | |
University of Leicester | United Kingdom | |
University of Liverpool | United Kingdom | |
University of Manchester | United Kingdom | |
University of Northampton | United Kingdom | |
University of Salford | United Kingdom | |
University of Sheffield | United Kingdom | |
University of Exeter | United Kingdom | |
University of Surrey | United Kingdom | |
American University of Paris | France | |
Bibliothèque royale de Belgique (Royal Library of Belgium) | Belgium |
Read more about KU here: http://www.knowledgeunlatched.org