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Publishing: Article Processing Charges and Open Access

Proceedings of the National Society of Sciences Agreement

UTMB affiliated authors who choose to publish immediate OA articles in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), are eligible for a $500 discount on the APC.

  • Only applies to articles that are OA from the day of publications
  • Delayed OA articles (which are made open 6 months after initial publication) are not eligible 

Requirements:

  • UTMB Author must specify their institutional affiliation
  • Choose "Immediate OA" during publishing process

OA Policy

All PNAS articles are free to read within 6 months of publication, without a subscription, and PNAS automatically deposits the version of record in PubMed Central for the authors.  Authors who choose the immediate open access option can have their articles made freely available immediately upon publication.  

Open access articles are published under a nonexclusive License to Publish and distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) or a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license. Some funders and institutions have explicit open access and license requirements. Authors are advised to confirm these requirements with their funding or institutional representatives to ensure compliance or to request policy waivers. Changes to license selections, or open access status, after publication may not be possible.

Article Licensing

PNAS offers two Creative Commons Licenses:

  • CC BY-NC-ND

  • CC BY