Payment of Publishing Fees

Since January 1st, 2025 the Gates foundation discontinued support for individual article publishing fees, such as APCs. By discontinuing to support Open Access fees, we can work to address inequities in current publishing models and reinvest the funds elsewhere.

Payment alternatives to explore:

  • See if your institution, or your co-author’s institution, has a publisher agreement or funds set aside for open access publishing
  • Check if you, or your co-author, has another funding source for the fees
  • Ask the publisher for an APC waiver
  • Select another journal that does not use APCs – check the Directory of Open Journals (DOAJ)
  • Contact the open access team, to see if any new models or publisher partnership will cover the fees

Grantees should not pay fees out of their budget or seek reimbursement from the foundation. The foundation is unable to reimburse grantees for payments already made to a publisher or service provider.

For assistance with open access fees for articles submitted to eligible journals in 2024, email [email protected].

Historic APC Spend Data

The foundation is committed to transparency of our open access and publishing fee spend. Data is available in the UCLA Dataverse repository.