Springer Nature (Hybrid Journals)

• Find individualized information about funding options in the Journal Finder search results, through the eligibility checker on each journal page, or by checking the new OA agreement country pages.
• To qualify for no-cost OA publication, the article must be accepted between April 1, 2025 and December 31, 2026, and have a responsible corresponding author from IU School of Medicine or IU Indianapolis.
• Under this agreement, authors can publish open access at no charge in Springer, Adis, and Palgrave Macmillan imprints but not Nature or any of the Nature-branded titles.
• You must identify yourself as affiliated with Indiana University Indianapolis and use your institutional email address as part of the publishing workflow. You must be the corresponding author for the article to be eligible.

PLOS  (<-- Click on the hyperlinked PLOS for more information.)

1. PLOS ONE
2. PLOS Complex Systems
3. PLOS Computational Biology
4. PLOS Digital Health
5. PLOS Genetics
6. PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases 
7. PLOS Pathogens

Indiana University corresponding authors are eligible to publish with no author fees (also known as Article Processing Charges or APCs) in seven PLOS journals from January 1, 2025 to December 31, 2025 under agreements negotiated by the Big Ten Academic Alliance with PLOS.  The covered journals are listed above.

This agreement does not cover special issues or 'Collections'.

Wiley 

Note:  No-fee publishing does not include waived Article Processing Charges (APCs) for open access.

BMJ Case Reports 

Open access publishing does not always depend on publishing fees. In fact, most open access journals are subsidized by universities and scholarly societies with no fees levied on authors or readers. Nearly 70% of the more than 17,000 journals in a broad range of disciplines indexed by the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) charge no fees to authors.

If you can not find a suitable, no-fee journal in the DOAJ, the IU Indianapolis Open Access policy gives you the rights to make the accepted manuscript of any article that you (co)authored while employed as a faculty member at IU Indianapolis open access in the institutional repository, IU Indianapolis ScholarWorks. The IU Indianapolis Open Access policy applies to all scholarly articles authored by IU Indianapolis faculty since 2015 and does not require the payment of article processing charges.

However, if the journal that best suits your article is a for-fee, open access journal that is indexed in the DOAJ, and you do not have access to funds to cover the fee, before pulling the submission, you might try the following:

• Ask the publisher for a fee waiver or discount.
• Ask your scholarly society if they have membership programs or related discounts with the publisher.
• Consult with your coauthors to see if their schools or universities have access to funds or other deals to support the cost of publication