Library News & Resources for Faculty: Dental Medicine Open Access Journals (NO APCs) through Penn Libraries

The Penn Libraries has a 3-year agreement (2023-2025) with Sage Publishing 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 the following journal packages. Please see our Author Services Guide for more information on the types of open access.
  • Sage Premier subscription package
  • Institute of Mechanical Engineers Journal Collection
  • The Royal Society of Medicine Collection 
  • Sage Gold OA Journals with exceptions. For a list of eligible Gold journals, please see the UPenn agreement page on Sage's site.
• Articles must have a Penn-affiliated responsible corresponding author to be able to publish them in Sage 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 but are not limited to: Original Research Papers, Review Papers, Brief Communications, Short Reports and Case Reports.
  • Article types that are not eligible include: articles published as part of commercially sponsored supplements, errata, book reviews, editorials, published abstracts, call for papers, news items or similar.
• Authors have a choice of Creative Commons licensing options to publish their work under. Sage recommends choosing an appropriate license that meets the author's research funders' requirements.
• For more details on publishing open access and the author workflow please see the Sage-Penn Libraries Read and Publish agreement.

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:
  • Springer's gold journals
  • Nature journals
• 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.
  • Springer mainly uses CC BY and CC BY-NC-ND licenses and recommends choosing an appropriate license that meets the author's research funding requirements.
• 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. 

The Penn Libraries has a 3-year agreement (2025-2027) with Elsevier 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 Elsevier's core hybrid journal collection. Please see our Author Services Guide for more information on the types of open access.
• The agreement does not include publishing in:
  • Elsevier's gold journals
  • Cell Press journals or the Lancet journals
• Articles must have a Penn-affiliated responsible corresponding author to be able to publish them in Elsevier 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 primary research and review articles.
• In order to publish open access, authors will be asked to select a Creative Commons license for their article.
  • By default Elsevier offers at least these 3 standard licenses: CC BY 4.0, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 and CC BY-NC 4.0 but other options may be available depending on the journal. See Elsevier's site on open access licenses for more information. 
• For more details on publishing open access and the author workflow please see Elsevier's Open Access Hub.

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 Elsevier. If you have questions, please contact your subject librarian. 

The Penn Libraries has a 3-year agreement (2024-2026) with Wiley 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 Wiley's hybrid ("Offers open access") journals. Please see our Author Services Guide for more information on the types of open access.
• The agreement does not include publishing in:
  • Wiley's gold ("Fully open access") journals.
• Wiley's journal finder may be used to help determine journals included in this agreement.
• Articles must have a Penn-affiliated responsible corresponding author to be able to publish them in Wiley 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 are original research and review articles, including short communications and technical notes. 
• Creative Commons licensing options available to authors vary by journal. Please see Wiley's guide to copyright and licensing for more information.
• For more details on publishing open access and the author workflow please see the Wiley's Author Resources page.

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 Wiley. If you have questions, please contact your subject librarian.