• Discount: $250 USD on hybrid journals. Hybrid journals are subscription journals that provide authors the option to pay an open access fee.

• Eligibility date: Between January 1st, 2019 and December 31st, 2021 

• Additional information: 

  • When submitting to ACS, corresponding authors must identify themselves as affiliated with the University of Ottawa in order to receive the discount

  • This discount is available through a negotiated agreement with Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN).

  • Authors submitting to fully open access journals by ACS may apply for the Library shared support if eligible 

*Please note that as of September 30, 2023, the Library will discontinue its institutional payment plan with BMC/SpringerOpen/Chemistry Central. After this date, uOttawa authors will no longer be eligible for the publisher discount.

• Discount: 15% of open access fee with an additional 50% coverage of remaining amount

• Eligibility date: On or after May 1st, 2018 

• Additional information: 

  • At the time of submission, corresponding authors must identify themselves as affiliated with the University of Ottawa in order to receive the discount

  • The Library will confirm authors' affiliation and the discount will be applied at the time of invoicing 

  • Authors are responsible for paying the outstanding balance to the publisher 

• Discount: 100% on Hybrid and fully Open Access journals. Hybrid journals are subscription journals that provide authors the option to pay an open access fee.

• Eligibility date: Between January 1st, 2022 and December 31st, 2024

• Additional information:

  • When submitting to CUP, corresponding authors must identify themselves as affiliated with the University of Ottawa in order to receive the discount

  • This discount is available through a negotiated agreement with Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN).

  • Articles submitted between January 1st, 2019 and December 31st, 2021 are eligible for a 20% discount

• Discount:
  • Unlimited open access publishing in five CSP journals:
    • Biochemistry and Cell Biology
    • Canadian Journal of Physics
    • Canadian Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology
    • Genome
    • Transactions of the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering
  • 25% discount on article processing charges for all CSP Hybrid Journals
• Eligibility date: On or after January 1, 2023 until December 31, 2025
• Additional information:
  • When submitting to CSP, corresponding authors must identify themselves as affiliated with the University of Ottawa in order to receive the discount. The APC is waived automatically
  • Corresponding authors should use an institutional email address when submitting the article
  • This discount is available through a negotiated agreement with the Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN)

• Discount: 20%. Exclusions apply to Cell Press, Lancet, and some other society owned journals.

• Eligibility date: Between January 1, 2021 and December 31, 2023

• Additional information:

  • When submitting to Elsevier, corresponding authors must identify themselves as affiliated with the University of Ottawa in order to receive the discount

  • This discount is available through a negotiated agreement with Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN). A full list of journals eligible for the discount is located in the Member documents on the CRKN website. 

  • Authors submitting to fully open access journals by Elsevier may apply for the Library shared support if eligible 

*Please note - As of August 31, 2023, the Library discontinued its institutional payment plan with Frontiers. After this date, uOttawa authors are no longer eligible for the publisher discount.

• Discount: 50%

• Eligibility date: On or after May 1st, 2018 

• Additional information:

  • Under the Authors details section of the submission form, corresponding authors must identify themselves as affiliated with the University of Ottawa in order to receive the discount 

  • The Library will confirm authors' affiliation and the discount will be applied at the time of invoicing

  • Authors are responsible for paying the outstanding balance to the publisher

• Discount: 100% coverage on Hybrid and fully Open Access journals. Hybrid journals are subscription journals that provide authors the option to pay an open access fee.

• Eligibility date: Between December 15, 2021 and December 14th, 2024

• Additional information:

  • Some journals are excluded, visit the CRKN website for the list of included and excluded journals.

  • When submitting to Institute of Physics, corresponding authors must identify themselves as affiliated with the University of Ottawa in order to receive the discount. Please consult the CRKN website for details on how to identify yourself as eligible. 

  • This discount is available through a negotiated agreement with Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN).

• Discount: 10% 
• Eligibility date: On or after May 1st, 2018 
• Additional information:
  • Authors may also apply for the Library shared support if eligible 

• Discount: 100% coverage on Hybrid and fully Open Access journals. Hybrid journals are subscription journals that provide authors the option to pay an open access fee.

• Eligibility date: Between January 1, 2022 and December 31, 2024

• Additional information:

  • When submitting to Microbiology Society Journals, corresponding authors must use their University of Ottawa email address in order to receive the discount. Visit the Microbiology Society website for more details.

  • This discount is available through a negotiated agreement with the Ontario Council of University Libraries (OCUL).

• Discount: 100% for uOttawa corresponding authors

• Eligibility date: On or after August 10, 2023

• Additional information:  

  • uOttawa is a PeerJ Institutional Member, providing unlimited publishing with no additional fees for affiliated authors

  • Please submit to PeerJ with a University of Ottawa email (ending @uottawa.ca). If you are the Corresponding or Administrating author of the article, PeerJ will recognize you as eligible to publish under uOttawa’s membership

  • If you are a member of the Ottawa faculty but have an alternative email, please email [email protected] when you have completed your submission and submit a request to use Ottawa’s Annual Institutional Membership

• Discount: 100%  

• Eligibility date: On or after January 1st, 2021 

• Additional information:

  • This discount applies to both corresponding and contributing authors affiliated with the University of Ottawa 

• Discount: 15% on all hybrid journals.  Hybrid journals are subscription journals that provide authors the option to pay an open access fee.

• Eligibility date: Between January 1st, 2022 and December 31st, 2024

• Additional information:

  • When submitting to Royal Society of Chemistry, corresponding authors must identify themselves as affiliated with the University of Ottawa in order to receive the discount

  • This discount is available through a negotiated agreement with Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN).

  • Authors submitting to fully open access journals by RSC may apply for the Library shared support if eligible 

• Discount:

  • 100% with participating SAGE Choice journals. "SAGE Choice" is the name given by SAGE to their subscription journals that provide authors the option to pay an open access fee. See excluded journals.

  • 40% with participating fully open access journals

• Eligibility date: On or after January 1st, 2021

• Additional information:

  • When submitting through the SAGE Open Access Portal (SOAP), corresponding authors must identify themselves as affiliated with the University of Ottawa in order to receive the discount

  • This discount is available through a negotiated agreement with Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN). 

  • Authors submitting to fully open access journals by SAGE may apply for the Library shared support if eligible 

• Discount: 25%

• Eligibility date: On or after January 1st, 2021 

• Eligible journals: T&F Open Select journals. "Open Select" is the name given by T&F to their subscription journals that provide authors the option to pay an open access fee. Check whether your chosen journal is Open Select.

• Additional information:

  • When submitting to Taylor & Francis, corresponding authors must identify themselves as affiliated with the University of Ottawa in order to receive the discount

  • This discount is available through a negotiated agreement with Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN).

  • Authors submitting to fully open access journals by T&F may apply for the Library shared support if eligible 

• Discount:
  • 100% for corresponding authors publishing in Wiley hybrid journals. Please see the list of participating Wiley hybrid journals
  • This deal does not apply to articles published in Wiley and Hindawi fully gold OA journals
• Eligibility date: On or after January 16^th, 2023 until December 31, 2024
• Additional information:
  • When submitting to Wiley, corresponding authors must identify themselves as affiliated with the University of Ottawa in order to receive the discount
  • Corresponding authors should use an institutional email address when submitting the article
  • This discount is available through a negotiated agreement with Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN).

Érudit is a platform that supports Social Science and Humanities (SSH) journals in Canada and internationally. In 2017, Érudit and the Public Knowledge Project (PKP) formed a strategic partnership to create Coalition-Publi.ca.

The goal of Coalition Publi.ca is to provide an open, non-commercial, independent production and dissemination infrastructure for Canadian scholarly SSH journals, based on a business partnership model with shared governance and continuous financial support for open access dissemination.

There are approximately 120 journals currently involved in the project with an embargo period of 12 months, down from 24 months in 2014. The intent of the project is to move to fully open access in the future. Through its membership in the Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN), the University of Ottawa Library has continually supported this initiative since 2014, and has committed to the next phase of the project, which will run from 2018 to 2022.

As a member of the Ontario Council of University Libraries (OCUL), the Library supports the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). The DOAJ is an indexing service that aims to increase the visibility, accessibility, reputation, usage, and impact of quality, peer-reviewed, open access scholarly research journals globally, regardless of discipline, geography or language. 

DuraSpace is an independent not-for-profit organization providing leadership and innovation for open technologies that promote durable, persistent access to digital data. DuraSpace supports the success, sustainability, and development of open source projects, including DSpace, the infrastructure that supports uO Research, the University of Ottawa’s institutional repository.

Knowledge Unlatched is a not-for-profit initiative based in the UK that makes scholarly content freely available through collective library funding. A selection committee vets titles from publishers and then these titles are presented to libraries to “unlatch”. If the funding goal is reached, these titles then become openly available as digital versions, democratizing access to knowledge on a global basis. Over 2,500 books and journals have already been “unlatched” and are freely available online.

The Library subscribes to an annual membership to Open Book Publishers (OPB), a non-profit organization established by academics in Cambridge (UK) to publish rigorously peer-reviewed Open Access monographs.

To date, Open Book Publishers has published 225 titles in the humanities and social sciences.

OpenEdition is a platform for books and journals in the humanities and social sciences. The majority of their titles are French-language and more than half of these titles are available in open access. The Library provides annual support to their “Freemium” program, which funds their open access model.

The Open Library of Humanities (OLH) is a peer-reviewed, multilingual academic journal and books platform for the humanities. Nearly 200 libraries internationally contribute to cover the costs of publication for authors. The unique publishing model of OLH gives authors no-fee access to a platform with many benefits including professional presentation, annotative functionality, robust digital preservation, increased discoverability, and social media sharing functions.

ORCID is an international non-profit organization with a vision of uniquely identifying researchers and seamlessly connecting them to their professional activities.

ORCID is best known for its ORCID iD, a unique digital identifier for researchers that ensures proper attribution of works and helps increase discoverability of research output, among other benefits.

As a member of the ORCID’s Canadian consortium, the Library has been working on increasing awareness of ORCID and its identifier to the university community, along with integrating the ORCID iD into systems used across campus, including Open Journal Systems (OJS).

The Library actively supports the Public Knowledge Project (PKP), a multi-university initiative developing open source software and conducting research to improve the quality and reach of scholarly publishing. PKP is a non-profit research initiative that focuses on making the results of publicly funded research freely available through open access policies and on developing software solutions and strategies to make this possible. Open source software developed by PKP includes Open Journal Systems (OJS), which the Library uses for our journal hosting and publishing support. 

The Library is a member of SPARC, an international organization that “works to enable the open sharing of research outputs and educational materials in order to democratize access to knowledge, accelerate discovery, and increase the return on our investment in research and education.” Through collaborations with authors, publishers, libraries, students, funders, policymakers, and the public, SPARC promotes the changes to both infrastructure and culture needed to make open the default for research and education.

Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access in Particle Physics Publishing (SCOAP3) is an open access initiative that is made possible by the collaboration of libraries, funding agencies and research centres across the globe. Through their work with publishers, SCOAP3 strives to democratize scientific research by eliminating costs for authors and reducing subscription fees for libraries.

Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services (SCOSS) supports open science infrastructure on a global scale.

SCOSS identifies and recommends non-profit open access services to its community partners who in turn provide funding support on a collaborative basis.

The University of Ottawa Library and the University of Ottawa Press (UOP) have a funding agreement to support the free online availability of selected titles published by UOP. The Library provides financial support to help cover the costs of publishing four new books per year in open access with Creative Commons licenses. Since the beginning of the partnership in 2012, 18 books have been published in this way, and 69 backlisted books have been made available in open access, for a total of 87 books, or 14% of the Press’ catalogue. The open access versions are made available through uO Research, and are archived in perpetuity on Scholars Portal. Visit the UOP's website to see the list of open access titles.