PLoS Medicine, PLoS Biology, & PLOS Sustainability and Transformation (These 3 journals ONLY for IU School of Medicine)

Wiley 

The Company of Biologists

MDPI

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