• 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, 2025 and December 31st, 2027

• 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)

  • Refer to ACS' publishing guide for further details 

• For a complete list of ACS hybrid journals eligible under this agreement, please visit our Journal Finder tool on SciFree.

• Discount:
  • 100% for corresponding authors publishing in the Association for Computing Machinery journals (no titles excluded).
• Eligibility date: July 15, 2025 until June 30, 2028
• Additional information:
  • When submitting to ACM, 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)
• For a complete list of ACM journals eligible under this agreement, please visit our Journal Finder tool on SciFree.

• Discount: 100% for corresponding authors publishing in 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, 2025 and December 31st, 2026

• 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).

  • Refer to CUP's publishing guide for further details

• For a complete list of CUP journals eligible under this agreement, please visit our Journal Finder tool on SciFree.

• Discount for corresponding authors:
  • 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, 2026 until December 31, 2027
• 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)
• For a complete list of CSP journals eligible under this agreement, please visit our Journal Finder tool on SciFree.

• Discount: 100% for corresponding authors publishing in the following journals:
  • Development
  • Journal of Cell Science
  • Journal of Experimental Biology
  • Disease, Models and Mechanisms
  • Biology Open
• Eligibility date: Between January 1, 2024 and December 31, 2026
• Additional information:
  • Upon submission, corresponding authors must identify themselves as affiliated with the University of Ottawa in order to receive the discount
  • Corresponding authors must use their University of Ottawa email address in order to receive the discount.
  • This discount is available through a negotiated agreement with the Ontario Council of University Libraries (OCUL).
  • Refer to the publishing guide for further details
• For a complete list of CoB journals eligible under this agreement, please visit our Journal Finder tool on SciFree.

• Discount:
  • 100% for corresponding authors publishing in Elsevier hybrid journals.
  • 15% for corresponding authors publishing in eligible fully open access (gold) journals.

• Eligibility date: On or after January 1st, 2024

• Additional information:

  • Please see the list of participating Elsevier journals

  • When submitting to Elsevier, 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)

  • Refer to Elsevier’s publishing guide for further details
• For a complete list of Elsevier journals eligible under this agreement, please visit our Journal Finder tool on SciFree.

• Discount: 100% for corresponding authors publishing in Hybrid and fully Open Access (gold) journals. Hybrid journals are subscription journals that provide authors the option to pay an open access fee.

• Eligibility date: Between January 01, 2025 until December 31, 2027

• 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. 

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

  • Refer to IOPs publishing guide for further details

• For a complete list of IOP journals eligible under this agreement, please visit our Journal Finder tool on SciFree.

• Discount: 10%
• Eligibility date: On or after 8 January 2026
• Additional information:
  • University of Ottawa affiliated authors accepted for publication in JMIR Publications can obtain their discount code at this page
• For a complete list of JMIR Open Access journals eligible under this agreement, please visit our Journal Finder tool on SciFree.

• Discount: 10%
• Eligibility date: On or after May 1st, 2018
• For a complete list of MDPI journals eligible under this agreement, please visit our Journal Finder tool on SciFree.

• 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.

• License ends date: December 31, 2025

• 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).

• For a complete list of journals eligible under this agreement, please visit our Journal Finder tool on SciFree.

• Discount:
  • 100% for corresponding authors publishing in Oxford University Press (OUP) hybrid journals. Hybrid journals are subscription journals that provide authors the option to pay an open access fee.
  • 10% for corresponding authors publishing in OUP’s gold OA journals
• Eligibility date: January 1^st, 2024 until December 31, 2026
• Additional information:
  • When submitting to OUP, 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)
  • Refer to OUPs publishing guide for further details
• For a complete list of OUP journals eligible under this agreement, please visit our Journal Finder tool on SciFree.

• Discount:
  • 100% for corresponding authors publishing across all Portland Press titles
• Eligibility date: January 1^st, 2025 until December 31, 2026
• Additional information:
  • Upon submission, 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
• For a complete list of journals eligible under this agreement, please visit our Journal Finder tool on SciFree.

• Discount:
  • 100% for corresponding authors publishing in Hybrid and fully Open Access journals. Hybrid journals are subscription journals that provide authors the option to pay an open access fee.
• Eligibility date: January 1st, 2025 and December 31st, 2027
• Additional information:
  • When submitting, 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).
  • Refer to Royal Society of Chemistry's publishing guide for further details
• For a complete list of RSC journals eligible under this agreement, please visit our Journal Finder tool on SciFree.

• Discount:
  • 100% for corresponding authors publishing in any Royal Society journal
• Eligibility date: On or after January 1^st, 2025 until December 31, 2027
• Additional information:
  • Upon submission, 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
• For a complete list of Royal Society journals eligible under this agreement, please visit our Journal Finder tool on SciFree.

• Discount for corresponding authors:

  • 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). 

  • Refer to SAGE's publishing guide for further details

• For a complete list of SAGE journals eligible under this agreement, please visit our Journal Finder tool on SciFree.

• Discount: 25% for corresponding authors. 

• 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).

  • Refer to T&F's publishing guide for further details

• For a complete list of T&F Open Select journals eligible under this agreement, please visit our Journal Finder tool on SciFree.

• Discount:
  • 100% for corresponding authors publishing in Wiley hybrid journals. Please see the list of participating Wiley hybrid journals
  • 10% with participating fully open access journals (gold)
• Eligibility date: On or after January 16^th, 2023 until December 31, 2026
• 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).
  • Refer to Wiley's publishing guide for further details
• For a complete list of Wiley journals eligible under this agreement, please visit our Journal Finder tool on SciFree.

Coalition Publica is a partnership between Érudit and the Public Knowledge Project to advance research dissemination and digital scholarly publishing in Canada. Together with libraries, they are supporting the social sciences and humanities journal community in the transition towards sustainable open access. They are developing a non-commercial, open source national infrastructure for digital scholarly publishing, dissemination, and research — combining Open Journal Systems and the erudit.org platform — and conducting research on the Canadian scholarly publishing ecosystem.

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. 

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 contributes toward the Lyrasis Open Access Community Investment Program (OACIP). The OACIP is a community-driven framework that enables multiple stakeholders — including academic and public libraries, academic departments, institutions, research centers, museums, and funding agencies — to evaluate and collectively fund Diamond Open Access (OA) journals. 

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.

For a complete list of OLH journals, please visit our Journal Finder tool on SciFree.

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 financially supports Peer Community In (PCI), a not-for-profit organization that offers an open peer review and recommendation system led by communities of researchers. PCI is financially supported by universities, research institutes and learned societies. Discover PCI's 17 communities that offer peer review on your preprints!

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.