Librarians
Please contact an expert librarian from the library staff list
For general inquiries:
Tel: 08-6461111/2
Email: yaatz@bgu.ac.il
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Mail: P.O.Box 653, Beer-sheva 8410501, Israel
The library has new contracts for the year 2025 with publishers, for publishing articles in Open Access with no APC (article processing charge) to BGU faculty (or with a discount). It is advised to submit the article with your BGU email, so that the publisher can identify your affiliation and the option for free publication will be offered automatically.
Publishing in Open Access can increase the readership and visibility of your research and help to find more potential collaborations and recognition.
How to apply? After peer review, researcher will be asked if he wants to publish in Open Access, his approval automatically will publish the article in OA. The researcher is required to submit the article through BGU email. Please note, that in most agreements the "Corresponding author" is the eligable for full coverage of the APC.
ACM
An agreement for publishing in an ACM conference of journal with no APC costs. The author has to be the corresponding author and use their institutional email address when submitting their work. For more information.
ACS
A "read and publish" agreement for publishing in an ACS publications (total of 15 articles annualy). List of journals.
AIP
An agreement for publishing in hybrid OA journals, with no APC costs.
Brill
The University has a Read & Publish agreement and institution researchers are entitled to the full collection and uncapped OA publishing in all Brill journals (hybrid and gold).
Collections from Brill Journals include the fields of history, theology, Asian studies, Biblical studies, Middle East and Islamic studies,Classical studies, international law and human rights collection and Biology collection.
Cambridge University Press
The Company of Biologists
BGU University has a Read&Publish agreement to unlimited publication (hybrid and gold). After peer review, researcher will be asked if he wants to publish in Open Access, his approval automatically will publish the article in OA. The researcher is required to submit the article through BGU mail.
De Gruyter
An agreement for publishing in hybrid OA journals, with no APC costs.
Elsevier
An agreement for publishing in hybrid and BGU holdings journals at no cost, and Gold OA journals with a 10% discount [Lancet and Cell titles are not included in this agreement]. For more information on the publishers website or search the title in the search box.
Emerald
An agreement for publishing in hybrid OA journals with a 10% discount in the APC costs.
IOP Publishing
Corresponding authors affiliated with BGU are eligible for full coverage of APC An agreement for publishing in hybrid and gold journals
Karger
Corresponding authors affiliated with BGU are eligible for full coverage of APC and Authors ChoiceTM publication fee and all additional publication costs for articles published in full Open Access hybrid and gold journals (subscription journals with an Open Access option) of Karger Publishing.
How to submit your paper to Karger Publishing.
Oxford University Press
An agreement for publising in hybrid journals at no cost, and Gold OA journals with a 15% discount. For more information.
Portland Press
An agreement for publishing in hybrid and gold OA journals, with no APC costs.
SAGE
SAGE Publisher has agreement with BGU to publish in hybrid Open Access in 900+ journals (SAGE Choice) at the cost of £200 or a 20% discount in the gold OA journals. SAGE invite authors to the SAGE Open Access Portal to take additional steps needed to make their article open access under the terms of this agreement.
SPRINGER
Under the agreement with Springer Nature Journals, BGU researchers can publish articles in OA in the publisher hybrid titles at no cost. The agreement does not include Nature branded titles, nor Gold (fully OA) titles. Titles that transfer from hybrid to gold status ("flipping titles") will be included under the terms. Introduction to the open access publishing services. For all the details.
Taylor & Francis
Under the agreement with Talyor & Francis, BGU researchers can publish articles in OA in the publisher hybrid titles at no cost. Gold (fully OA) titles are exluded from this agreement.
Open Access Agreement for Authors in Israel (tandfonline.com)