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OA Publishing Agreements
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2024
2025
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(per article)
Procedures
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
(since Jan 2024)
Access to all journals
  • Waived for all hybrid and gold journals
  • Corresponding authors only
  • Eligible for research articles, review articles, and conference or proceedings papers
Unlimited quota
Up to USD 1,800
After your article is accepted, the publisher will send you an email to the eRights form, where you can choose to use the free token.
American Chemical Society (ACS)
(since Jan 2022)
Access to all journals
  • Waived for all journals
  • Corresponding authors only
75 tokens for 3 years
Up to USD 4,500
After your article is accepted, the publisher will send you an email to the Rightslink, where you can choose to use the free token.
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
(since Jan 2021)
Access to 420+ journals
  • Waived for 370+ journals
  • Corresponding authors only
  • Except for Book reviews, Discussions, Editorials, Introductions, Letters, Meeting reports, and Proceedings
Unlimited quota
Up to USD 4,920
After your article is accepted, the publisher will send you an email to the Rightslink, where you can choose to use the free token.
Company of Biologists
(since Jan 2023)
Access to all 5 journals
  • Waived for all 5 journals
  • Eligible for Research articles, Short reports, Tools & techniques, Methods & techniques, Short communications, Research reports, Techniques & resources article, Techniques & resources report, and Resource articles
Unlimited quota
Up to USD 2,200
After your article is accepted, the publisher will send you an email to the Rightslink, where you can choose to use the free token.
De Gruyter
(since Jan 2025)
Unlimited quota (only for 2025)
Up to EUR 2,300
You are automatically set to enjoy the token for S2O journals.

For other journals, after your article is accepted, the publisher will send you an email to the Rightslink, where you can choose to use the free token.
Elsevier
(since Jan 2025)
Access to over 2,200 titles from Freedom Collection
  • Waived for all hybrid journals of Freedom Collection
  • Corresponding authors only
  • Eligible for Case reports; Data in Briefs; Full-length articles; Micro-articles; Original software publication; Practice guidelines; Protocols; Review articles; Replication studies; Short communications; Short surveys; Video articles
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70
90
Up to USD 10,400
After your article is accepted, the publisher will send you an email to the post acceptance author journey, where you can choose to use the free token.
IEEE
(since Dec 2022)
Access to all journals
  • Waived for all journals
  • Corresponding authors only
  • Except for conference proceedings
13
17
TBA
Up to USD 2,995
After your article is accepted, the publisher will send you an email to the Rightslink, where you can choose to use the free token.
Institute of Physics (IOP)
(since Jan 2024)
Access to all 80+ Science Extra package with 10-year rolling archives
Unlimited quota
Up to USD 4,455
You are automatically set to enjoy the token.
John Benjamins
(since Jan 2025)
Access to the existing subscription
  • Waived for all journals
  • Corresponding authors only
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Unlimited quota
Up to EUR 1,800
You are automatically set to enjoy the token.
Oxford University Press (OUP)
(since Jan 2025)
Access to all journals
  • Waived for all hybrid journals
  • Corresponding authors only
  • Eligible for research articles, review articles, brief reports and case reports. Articles in supplements (i.e. specifically designated issues supplementary to a journal’s usual publication, often sponsored by third parties), are excluded.
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Unlimited quota
Up to EUR 7,619
You are automatically set to enjoy the token.
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
(since Jan 2023)
Access to all journals
  • Waived for all hybrid journals
  • Corresponding authors only
  • Eligible for all research and review-type articles
8
9
TBA
Up to GBP 3,000
You are automatically set to enjoy the token.
Springer
(since Jan 2024)
Access to all 2,000+ Springer and Adis journals
  • Waived for all hybrid journals
  • Corresponding authors only
  • Eligible for Original paper, Review paper, Brief communication, and Continuing education
15
15
16
Up to USD 5,790
After your article is accepted, the publisher will send you an email to the SpringerNature Article Approval Service, where you can choose to use the free token.
Taylor & Francis (T&F)
(since Jan 2023)
Access to an additional 1,200+ journals in Social Sciences and Humanities Collection
45
45
TBA
Up to USD 4,800
After your article is accepted, the publisher will send you an email to the T&F System, where you can choose to use the free token.
Wiley
(since Jan 2023)
  • Waived for all fully OA and hybrid journals
  • Corresponding authors only
  • Eligible for Case study, Commentary, Data article, Education, Lecture, Method and protocol, Perspective, Practice and policy, Rapid publication, Research article, Review article, Short communication, and Technical note
18
19
TBA
Up to USD 6,730
For fully OA journals, authors will arrive at Wiley Open Access Dashboard (WOAD) upon manuscript submission to choose to use the free token. We will approve your request only after the article is accepted.

For hybrid journals, authors will be led to WOAD after the peer review process.
SCOAP3

Effective between 2017 and 2024, all HKBU faculty and students can publish OA in these 11 journals free of charge.

Instructions

When you receive an email from the publisher that contains this type of information, please remember to always select "Open Access" or "Gold Open Access".

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