The University Library is happy to announce more open access publishing support in 2022. These agreements allow KAUST corresponding authors to publish accepted articles in open access mode (in the selected journals of publishers listed below) at no cost to the author and thus made openly available.
- American Physical Society (APS) – unlimited number of articles NEW!
- Institute of Physics (IOP) – limited number of articles
- American Chemical Society (ACS) – limited number of articles NO MORE FREE TOKENS FOR 2022
- American Institute of Physics (AIP) – limited number of articles
- Oxford University Press (OUP) – limited number of articles
- Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) – unlimited number of articles
- Cambridge University Press (CUP) – unlimited number of articles
- International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE) – unlimited number of articles
- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press (CSHLP) – unlimited number of articles
- The Royal Society – unlimited number of articles
- Inter-Research Center Publisher – unlimited number of articles
- Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) – unlimited number of articles
We also support below publishers “subscribe to open” (S2O) program and KAUST authors can publish open access in their selected journals or complete portfolio at no cost:
Discounts on open access publishing fees are also available from four publishers:
- Thieme journals (50% discount)
- TransTech (Scientific.Net) (50% discount)
- Frontiers (10% discount)
- Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) (10% discount)
If a publisher is not listed here, you can make your research article open access by submitting “author accepted manuscript” version of your article to the KAUST Research Repository and the University Library will make it available to the world as per the publisher’s policies, with a link attached to the original article and DOI. You can also deposit associated datasets to the Research Repository.
These publishing models will support the KAUST open access policy and aim to increase the impact of KAUST research publications through availability to the world without locking them behind publisher paywalls.
More details are also available in the guide or contact us at library@kaust.edu.sa
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