The Penn Libraries has a 3-year agreement (2024-2026) with Springer Journals for Penn authors to publish articles open access with no article processing fees (APCs). Charges other than the APC may still apply, and are not covered by this agreement. Please refer to individual journal submission guidelines.
- This agreement covers open access publication in Springer's hybrid journals. Please see our Author Services Guide for more information on the types of open access.
- The agreement does not include publishing in:
- Articles must have a Penn-affiliated responsible corresponding author to be able to publish them in Springer journals without paying an article processing fee (APC).
- During the submission process, the authors must correctly identify they are affiliated with Penn to ensure they are matched to our agreement.
- CHOP researchers cross-affiliated with Penn are eligible under our agreements but MUST select UPenn (and not CHOP) as their affiliation when submitting articles.
- Eligible article types include original research papers, review papers, brief communications, and continuing education papers.
- In order to publish open access, authors will be asked to select a Creative Commons license for their article.
- For more details on publishing open access and the author workflow please see the Springer Author Guide for this OA Publishing Agreement.
Please note that this agreement is not unlimited; there is cap on the number of articles that the Penn Libraries can publish in a given year. However, the cap is expected and intended to cover our publishing output based on our previous publishing data with Springer. If you have questions, please contact your subject librarian.
