Pediatrics Open Science - limited APC waiver through to June 2025
The EMHS and SMHS Library and Information Service has an agreement with MA Healthcare that allows articles where the corresponding authors are employed by EMHS and SMHS to be published in many MA Healthcare journals free of any open access article processing charge (APC).
Articles accepted for publication after 1st January 2025 are eligible to be published under this agreement.
Corresponding authors must affiliate with EMHS or SMHS and use their WA Health email address when submitting an article for publication.
For details of titles included in this agreement see the link below.
The EMHS and SMHS Library and Information Service has an agreement with Springer Nature that allows articles where the corresponding authors are employed by EMHS and SMHS to be published in most Springer Nature hybrid journals without the need to pay any transactional open access article processing charge (APC).
This is a capped agreement that provides an allowance for 14 articles to be published OA per year in 2025 and 2026, increasing to 15 articles in 2027.
Articles accepted for publication after 1st January 2025 are eligible to be published under this agreement.
The agreement covers the following article types:
Corresponding authors must use their EMHS or SMHS affiliation and their WA Health email address when submitting an article for publication.
This agreement covers most Springer, Adis, Palgrave Macmillan and Academic hybrid journals (see link to list of included titles below).
The EMHS and SMHS Library and Information Service has an agreement with MA Healthcare that allows articles where the corresponding authors are employed by EMHS and SMHS to be published in journals in the Cambridge University Press Medicine and Veterinary Science Collection free of any open access article processing charge (APC).
Articles accepted for publication after 1st January 2025 are eligible to be published under this agreement.
Corresponding authors must affiliate with EMHS or SMHS and use their WA Health email address when submitting an article for publication.
Look for the titles this applies to in the full list of Cambridge journals from the link below – all journals listed have been filtered in the search results with Access:Full.
The EMHS and SMHS Library and Information Service has an agreement with Wolters Kluwer that allows articles where the corresponding authors are employed by EMHS and SMHS to be published in Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins journals free of any open access article processing charge (APC).
This agreement is capped at USD $176,212 worth of APCs in 2025.
Articles accepted for publication after 1st January 2025 are eligible to be published under this agreement.
Corresponding authors must use their EMHS or SMHS affiliation and their WA Health email address when submitting an article for publication.
For details of titles included in this agreement see the link below.
Staff who hold joint affiliations with universities may have access to university library read and publish agreements. Joint affiliation status should be recorded wherever possible (i.e. with the health service as well as with the university). WA Universities with such agreements are