Open Access Article Processing Charge Subsidy Service

The purpose of service

  • The purpose of the service is to encourage researchers to publish articles via open access journals, which accelerates the academic development and enhances international visibility. NCKU Library provides several open access journals article processing charge (APC) discounts and subsidy services for researchers.

Notice：

  • Please check the journal quality by yourself before submission, to avoid predatory journal.
  • If there is Institutional Policy about submission, please ask your institute and check it before submission. For example

Service

# Subside/Discount (sorted by alphabet) Publishing APC Discount
1 All publishiers are included NTD 30,000/50,000
2 American Chemical Society(ACS) Free
3 BioMed Central、SpringerOpen 15% off
4 Cambridge University Press Free
5 (★2026New!) Elsevier 15% off
6 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers(IEEE) Fully OA APC US$ 1,728
Hybrid APC US$ 2,240
7 Institute of Physics (IOP Publishing) Free
8 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America(PNAS)
9 Royal Society of Chemistry(RSC) Free/15% off
10 Rockefeller University Press(RUP) Free
11
(★2026 Quota Fully Depleted)		 Springer Nature
Free Quotas：
    • 2026: 65 (depleted)
    • 2027: 66
    • 2028: 68