Publication data from calendar year 2025 has been gathered from the Library’s open access publishing agreements, and UT Southwestern authors saved more than $1 million in article processing charges (APCs) during the year.

The Library’s agreements allow UTSW corresponding authors to publish articles as open access either at no charge through an APC waiver or with a 10-15% APC discount. In 2025, the total value of APC waivers or discounts from the top 10 publishers equaled $1,026,561. The 2024 total of APC waivers and discounts was $738,788.50, so the 2025 total represents an overall 39% increase.

The Library has recently added three new 2026 agreements: JAMA Network, Royal Society of Chemistry, and Springer Nature. (Please note: the JAMA agreement excludes JAMA, and the Springer agreement includes neither the Nature journal portfolio nor Springer’s fully open access journals.) Please refer to the Library’s APC Guide for more information about our current agreements.