University of Barcelona funding for Open Access publishing
This year the Vice-rectorate for Research Promotion makes available to the community of the University of Barcelona a new call for grants to publish in open access scientific journals, framed in the policy for supporting the free dissemination of knowledge. The budget for this call is 120.000 euros.
Transformative Agreements
Research staff at the University of Barcelona can publish in open access in journals of those publishers with a transformative agreement reached individually or through the CRUE-CSIC alliance.
The University of Barcelona, through the state agreement signed by the CRUE and the CSIC with the American Chemical Society (ACS), has a number of articles for open access publication in journals that offer the hybrid option and open access journals. ACS Omega is not included in the agreement.
This agreement maintains access to all the journals of this publisher, as before, and, at the same time, also allows the articles published where the corresponding author is from the University of Barcelona are open access without any additional cost. This agreement is in effect until 2024 and the number of covered items will increase each year.
List of hybrid journals of ACS where you can publish in open access under this agreement.
Transformative agreement document avaible at CSUC [in catalan].
The University of Barcelona, through the Center for Resources for Learning and Research (CRAI) has signed an agreement transformative with the American Institute of Mathematical Sciences (AIMS).
The University of Barcelona, through the agreement signed by the CSUC with the American Institute of Physics (AIP),, has a number of articles for open access publication in journals that offer the hybrid option and open access journals.
This agreement maintains access to all the journals of this publisher, as before, and, at the same time, also allows the articles published where the corresponding author is from the University of Barcelona are open access without any additional cost. This agreement is in effect until 2025 and the number of covered items will increase each year.
For a publication to be open access, it must be requested when the article is accepted. Then, researchers should choose a publishing license. Please notice that many funders requires that the publication license be CC BY.
List of AIP journals where you can publish in open access under this agreement.
Transformative agreement document avaible at CSUC [in catalan].
List of Cambridge University Press journals where you can publish in open access under this agreement.
Transformative agreement document.
The University of Barcelona, through the Center for Resources for Learning and Research (CRAI) has signed an agreement transformative with The Company of Biologists.
This agreement allows, as of January 2022, to maintain access to all the journals of this publishing house as until moment. But, at the same time, it also allows articles to be published as open access without any additional cost, where the corresponding author is from the University of Barcelona. These conditions will be maintained until the end of the agreement, in December 2024.
Journals included are:
For a publication to be open access, it must be requested when the article is accepted. Then, researchers should choose a publishing license. Please notice that many funders requires that the publication license be CC BY.
Transformative agreement document.
For a publication to be open access, it must be requested when the article is accepted. At this time researchers should choose a publishing license. They remember that many funders requires that the publication license be CC BY.
List of hybrid journals of Elsevier journals where you can publish in open access under this agreement.
Transformative agreement document avaible at CSUC [in catalan].
The University of Barcelona, through the state agreement signed by the CRUE and the CSIC with IEE Xplore, has a number of articles for open access publication in journals that offer the hybrid option.
This agreement maintains access to all IEEE Electronic Library (IEL) and IEEE All-Society Periodicals Package (ASPP) hybrid journals of this publisher, as before, and, at the same time, also allows the published articles where the corresponding author is from the University of Barcelona be open access articles without any additional cost. This agreement is in effect until 2025 and will cover up to 2 items. Open access journals have a 20% discount off.
For a publication to be open access, it must be requested when the article is accepted. Then, researchers should choose a publishing license: CC BY or a CC-BY-NC.
List of hybrid journals of IEEE Xplore where you can publish in open access under this agreement.
Transformative agreement document avaible at CSUC [in catalan].
The University of Barcelona, through the Center for Resources for Learning and Research (CRAI) has signed an agreement transformative with Karger Journals
This agreement maintains access to all the journals of this publisher, as before, and, at the same time, also allows the articles published where the corresponding author is from the University of Barcelona are open access without any additional cost. This agreement is in effect until 2023.
Researchers do not have to pay any APC (Article Processing Charge) whether it is published in an access journal full open as if it is published in a journal that offers the hybrid option (publish an article in open in a subscription access journal).
For a publication to be open access, it must be requested when the article is accepted. At this time researchers should choose a publishing license. They remember that many funders requires that the publication license be CC BY.
List of Karger journals where you can publish in open access under this agreement.
The University of Barcelona, through the Center for Resources for Learning and Research (CRAI) has signed an agreement transformative with Rockefeller University Press.
Researchers do not have to pay any APC (Article Processing Charge) when publishing in any of the following journals:
The University of Barcelona, through the state agreement signed by the CRUE and the CSIC with the Royal Society of Chemistry Publishing, has a number of articles for open access publication in journals that offer the hybrid option and open access journals.
This agreement maintains access to all the journals of this publisher, as before, and, at the same time, also allows the articles published where the corresponding author is from the University of Barcelona are open access without any additional cost. This agreement is in effect until 2025 and will cover up to 17 items.
List of journals of Royal Society of Chemistry where you can publish in open access under this agreement.
Transformative agreement document avaible at CSUC [in catalan].
The University of Barcelona, through the state agreement signed by the CRUE and the CSIC with Springer publishing, has a number of articles for open access publication in journals that offer the hybrid option.
List of hybrid journals of Springer journals where you can publish in open access under this agreement.
Transformative agreement document avaible at CSUC [in catalan].
Further options to open access publishing
Bentham Science is offering to researchers of University of Barcelona a discount off 30% on the standard fee they charge to publish accepted articles in any of their journals and books.
In order to request this discount, authors should identify themselves as University of Barcelona members when they deal with a Bentham Science journal to arrange for the publication of a research article. The application of this discount is monitored from the CRAI, if you have any questions you can contact the Research Unit.
Frontiers is offering to researchers of University of Barcelona a discount off 10% on the standard fee they charge to publish accepted articles in any of their journals.
In order to request this discount, authors should identify themselves as University of Barcelona members when they deal with a Frontiers journal to arrange for the publication of a research article. The application of this discount is monitored from the CRAI, if you have any questions you can contact the Research Unit.
In 2021 MDPI (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute) is once again offering to researchers of University of Barcelona a discount off 10% on the standard fee they charge to publish accepted articles in any of their journals. This economic incentive is the result of a program aimed at strengthening the link between the Swiss publishing group and prestigious research and higher education institutions such as the University of Barcelona. The discounts are an effective tool for increasing Open Access publication of university research results.
In order to request this discount, authors should identify themselves as University of Barcelona members when they deal with an MDPI journal to arrange for the publication of a research article. Please notice that this discount does not apply if any of the discount vouchers offered by the same MPDI group are used. These special terms will remain in effect until 28th. February 2024.
As of 1st January, 2020, IntechOpen offers discounts off to 20 up to 25% with respect to its fees for publishing books or book chapters in open access. In order to get benefit this discount it's necessary to identify as a member of the University of Barcelona. If you have any questions, contact with the Research Unit.
SAGE Publishing offers 15% discount off on APC (article processing charge) in the following open access journals. In order to get benefit this discount it's necessary to identify as a member of the University of Barcelona. If you have any questions, contact with the Research Unit.
The University of Barcelona has four vouchers to publish in hybrid open access in De Gruyter's journals along 2023. o enjoy one of these vouchers authors should identify themselves as University of Barcelona members and that they request it when the article is accepted. Out of stock as of 10th. of July 2023.
The University of Barcelona has three vouchers to publish in open access in Emerald's journals along 2023. To enjoy one of these vouchers authors should identify themselves as University of Barcelona members and that they request it when the article is accepted.
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