Information on publishers whose APCs are free

2020/02/14

Depending on the contract that Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University subscribes to, authors belonging to Ritsumeikan Asis Pacific University may be free.
The library does not carry out procedures related to APC discounts. Please check each publisher's website for details.


Target Publishers: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Target journals: List of target journals (xlsx) (2020.1.28)
Target authors: First author belonging to Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University


  • Period covered: January 1, 2020 to December 31, 2020
  • In the target journal and target period, the article processing charge will be free any number of times.
  • In order to make a paper open access, the first author belonging to Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University needs to perform procedures in the CUP system.
  • The institution is judged by profile information (email address domain / institution name / ORCID, etc.) registered in the CUP article submission / review system.
  • Register information indicating that you belong to Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University in the CUP article submission / review system profile.
  • For details on the procedure, please check the manual (PDF) (Japanese only) created by CUP.