CRKN is pleased to offer the following article processing charge (APC) discounts for member institutions, negotiated as part of our licensing activities. Please note that these discounts only apply to institutions participating in the licenses.
| License | APC Discount | Instructions |
| American Chemical Society | $250 USD flat discount | APC discount is applied upon submission of manuscript. Authors must identify their institutional affiliation in order to qualify for the discount. |
| Cambridge University Press | 20% discount on Gold or Hybrid Open Access journals | APC discount is applied upon submission of manuscript. Authors must identify their institutional affiliation in order to qualify for the discount. |
| Canadian Science Publishing | 50% discount on all journals except agricultural journals (Canadian Journal of Agricultural Science, Canadian Journal of Soil Science, Canadian Journal of Plant Science) | APC discount is applied upon submission of manuscript. Authors must identify their institutional affiliation in order to qualify for the discount. |
| Elsevier ScienceDirect | 20% discount on hybrid and Gold Open Access journals. Exclusions apply to Cell Press, Lancet, and some other society owned journals. A full list of journals eligible for the discount is located in the Member documents below. | Members will be responsible for validating the eligibility of accepted articles on Elsevier’s Open Access platform; more information on this process will be forthcoming. |
| SAGE | 40% discount on Gold Open Access journals | See instructions below (exclusions apply) |
| Taylor & Francis | 25% discount in T&F Open Select journals | See instructions below |
SAGE Open Access Portal (SOAP)
Starting on January 1, 2021, all authors affiliated with CRKN institutions that are participating in the CRKN-SAGE Premier Open Access agreement will be able to publish articles in SAGE Choice journals under an open access license with no associated Article Processing Charge (APC).
SAGE Open Access Portal (SOAP) is a centralized portal that automates SAGE’s open access publication process. CRKN members participating in the CRKN-SAGE license are eligible to receive a 40% discount on the Article Processing Charge (APC) on Gold Open Access journals.
The following steps briefly outline the manuscript submission process. For more information, see the PDF documents in the “Related Documents” section below.
- Authors identify their institution affiliation upon manuscript submission.
- Authors are notified by email of article acceptance. They are also notified of their eligibility for the 40% APC discount.
- Within the SAGE Open Access Portal (SOAP), authors can accept or decline to publish their article open access.
- If an author declines to publish in open access, their article will be published via the subscription route.
- In the Portal, the author can select their copyright license and assign a payer (i.e. funding agency, institution, or a different bill payer), and make the APC payment.
View the spreadsheet below for SAGE APC discount exclusions.
Applying a Taylor & Francis APC discount
To take advantage of the discount on T&F Open Select journals, an author can submit an article and choose the open access publishing option. When the APC is generated, authors can select their institution from the drop-down menu, and the discount will be automatically applied. The author can select a Creative Commons license to sign once they accept the quote.