Q. Do the USC Libraries provide support for Article Processing Charges (APCs) for Open Access journals?

USC Libraries has transformative agreements with Cambridge University Press and the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM). These 2 transformative agreements have no APCs for the author if they publish open access. 

USC is a supporting member of Biomed Central and thereby provides USC researchers a 15% discount on APCs to publish in BioMed Central open access journals. As of spring 2021, this membership is paused and may be restarted at a later date.

USC has an institutional fellowship for BMJ Case Reports that provides USC researchers with a discount. Please contact USC Libraries for the institutional fellowship code. 

For more information, USC researchers should contact their respective subject librarians.