Open Access

Many OA journals charge authors a fee to publish their article. This Article Processing Charge (APC) covers the publishing costs normally recovered through journal subscriptions. APC charges are $2000 on average which can be a barrier to researchers, faculty, and students interested in, or required to publish in OA journals.

TRU Library is a member of the Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN). Because of this membership, authors publishing from TRU receive a discount on their article processing charge (APC) from several publishers. Check the list available at the link below when publishing to see if a discount applies. Note that for several publishers, authors must self-identify as eligible for the discount.

Details on publishers currently offering discounts or waived APC fees for TRU authors:

Last updated: February 26, 2024.

There are two main streams for publishing Open Access journal articles:

Gold OA: the final version of your article will be OA right away. This will usually require an article/author processing charge

Green OA: your article may be behind a paywall on the journal's website, but you can self-archive a version of your article in a repository, such as TRUSpace. Sometimes an embargo is required between the journal publishing the article and the author submitting the article to a repository. This method of publishing does not require an APC.

Institutional repository: an archive that collects, preserves, and shares the “intellectual output” of an institution. TRU’s institutional repository is TRUSpace.

• Often, this is where the preprints or postprints are shared.
• There are other kinds of repositories, like subject repositories.