Benefit:
- Article Processing Charge waived: Corresponding authors affiliated with RIT may publish open access at no cost in journals covered by this agreement.
- NOTE: This benefit is capped at 14 publications per year, beginning each January. We will be monitoring the number of publications throughout the year.
- Article Types: Original paper, Review paper, Brief Communication, Continuing Education
- Journals covered: This agreement covers open access publications in Springer, Palgrave, and Adis journals on Springer Nature Link and "Academic Journals" on nature.com. This agreement does NOT include Nature.
- Download a full list of eligible journals here
How to Use this Benefit:
- Upon your article's acceptance, authors will be asked to identify themselves by one of three data elements: selected institution, institutional email, or location.
- Author will receive confirmation that they can publish the article open access with the fees waived.
- Author will be asked to agree to a creative commons license on behalf of all co-authors. CC-BY is most commonly used, but other licenses are available on request.
Note as of 11/24/25: RIT has reached our cap for SpingerNature APC waivers for this year. If you wish to publish open access with SN, you may consider the following options:
- Pay the APC required for OA publishing.
- Publish your article non-OA and deposit your author's manuscript (or post-print) in RIT's open access institutional repository.
- Wait until after January 1, 2026 to submit your publication when our pool for waivers is refreshed.
