APF Support for Corresponding Authors from the University of California – JMIR Publications

"This agreement between the University of California and JMIR Publications is excellent news for faculty such as myself who are engaged in digital health. JMIR and its family of journals is one of my favorite places to publish interdisciplinary digital health research, and this will only help us publish more high-impact articles".

Tim K. Mackey,
Associate Professor at UC San Diego, and Director of the Global Health Policy Institute

JMIR Publications and the University of California (California Digital Library - CDL) have renewed their institutional membership agreement. Under this agreement all articles accepted or submitted between December 23, 2019 and Dec 31, 2026 have the first $1000 automatically paid by the UC libraries, if the corresponding author (faculty or student) is from one of the UC campuses listed below. The affiliation line of the corresponding author must match the strings below, or the email address of the corresponding author must match the email domains listed below. UC authors will see a confirmation screen after submission (see screenshot below).

We bill the UC libraries directly, so no author payment is needed for amounts less than $1000.

Because papers in JMIR Research Protocols (Why should I publish my protocol or grant proposal?) and JMIRx (What is JMIRx?) cost less than US$1000, publication in these journals is essentially free of charge for UC authors, without additional forms.

For other journals, if the APF exceeds $1000, full coverage for the APF is available for UC authors who have no external grant funding. To request full coverage of the APF from the UC libraries, please download the applicable format [PDF or Word Doc or Google Doc] and send the completed form via email with the manuscript tracking number to prod-support@jmir.org requesting full coverage of the APF due to the UC agreement. (This form is not needed for the $1000 subsidy, which is automatically applied as described above.)

Campus	Email Domain
University of California, Berkeley	berkeley.edu
University of California, Davis	ucdavis.edu
University of California, Irvine	uci.edu
University of California, Los Angeles	ucla.edu
University of California, Merced	ucmerced.edu
University of California, Riverside	ucr.edu
University of California, San Diego	ucsd.edu
University of California, San Francisco	ucsf.edu
University of California, Santa Barbara	ucsb.edu
University of California, Santa Cruz	ucsc.edu
University of California Office of the President	ucop.edu
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	lbl.gov

Please make sure the corresponding author uses a UC email address from the list above when entering the metadata during submission.

If a corresponding author from UC is detected, the author sees the following screen after submission - in the example below the regular APF is $2500, from which we deduct $1000 - in other cases (e.g. JMIR Research Protocols with funding agency peer-review reports) the APF may be 0.

If you do not see this screen, make sure the corresponding author is from UC (How to change the corresponding author).

Press Releases:

University of California and JMIR Publications Launch Pilot to Advance Open Access to UC Research (on JMIR site)
University of California and JMIR Publications Launch Pilot to Advance Open Access to UC Research (on UC Office for Scholarly Communication site)
FAQ UC/JMIR agreement (on UC Office for Scholarly Communication site)

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