Open Access

Open Access is a publishing model for scholarly communication that makes peer reviewed academic/scientific research information available to readers at no cost.

The most considerable advantage of OA is the unrestricted access to content, as well as its fast and broad reach and impact. 

For the 2025-2027 triennium, b-on has negotiated with most of its publishers agreements advantageous OA publishing conditions for b-on member affiliated authors. The details of each agreement are listed below (publishing conditions for 2025*):

* Note: The purchasing procedure that will produce the upcoming agreements is not yet concluded, which implies that it might not be possible, at least in the case of some publishers, to benefit from the negotiated conditions prior to the signing of the transformative agreements.

PublisherHybrid JournalsGOA Journals
ACMno limitno limit
ACS104 articlesn.a.
AIP57 articlesn.a.
Annual Reviewsno limitno limit
Elsevier2422 articlesn.a.
IEEE10 articlesn.a.
IOPno limitno limit
RSC61 articlesn.a.
SAGEno limit-20% in APC
Springer701 articlesn.a.
Taylor & Francis310 articlesn.a.
Wiley257 articlesn.a.