Open Access Publishing Options at KAUST: APC Discount Deals

APC DISCOUNT DEALS 2024

 Elsevier offers KAUST authors a 10% discount on article processing charges in fully gold journals in 2025. Please click on this link to find information about the agreement and the submission process.

IEEE offers a 15% discount on article processing charges in hybrid and fully gold open access journals in 2025. Please click on this link to see the workflow for gold and hybrid journals.

Thieme publishing offers KAUST authors a 50% discount on article processing charges (2023/25). During the submission process, authors should use the KAUST email and will be notified about the discount.  KAUST authors who publish with Thieme must ensure that a 50% discount is applied to their invoices. 

Trans Tech Publications Ltd.(Scientific.Net) offers KAUST authors a 50% discount on article processing charges (2023/25). Interested authors must complete the TTP OA Order Form and email it to subscriptions@scientific.net. KAUST authors who publish with Scientific.Net must ensure that a 50% discount is applied to their invoices.

Frontiers provide a 10% discount to corresponding authors affiliated with KAUST  on APCs paid by them while publishing in any of Frontiers’ open access journals. KAUST authors who publish with Frontiers need to ensure that a 10% discount is applied to their invoices. 

Authors are asked that during the article submission process, the corresponding author’s KAUST institutional email address is used; this way, the discount will be automatically applied. If another corresponding author email domain is used, but KAUST is indicated as the affiliation, Frontiers will verify eligibility for the discount with the KAUST Library.

 MDPI (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute) offers a 10% discount on APC paid for any research or review article where at least one KAUST author is an affiliated author. KAUST authors who publish with MDPI need to ensure that a 10% discount is applied to their invoices during 2024. Affiliated authors also receive a 10% discount on charges associated with open access book publishing with MDPI (i.e., book processing charges: BPCs).

NOTE: Only one discount is permitted per paper, which cannot be combined with other available discounts (e.g., discount vouchers or society membership discounts).

A list of current APC charges is available at http://www.mdpi.com/about/apc

Under the 2025 KAUST–SAGE agreement, KAUST corresponding authors are eligible for Open Access (OA) publishing discounts.

• Eligible authors are KAUST-affiliated researchers, faculty, or students listed as the corresponding author.

• Articles that are eligible to publish based on this aggreement: Original Research Papers, Review Papers, Brief Communications, Short Reports, Case Reports.

• Articles from Hybrid OA can be published for a £200 APC, paid by the author.

• Articles from Gold OA receive a 15% APC discount, with the remaining cost paid by the author or funder.

• For Hybrid OA, the £200 rate must be confirmed within 14 days of notification. After that, the APC increases to £400.

Please click here to see the list and workflow for gold and hybrid journals.