Open Access Information

Paid Memberships

The Library currently supports three institutional memberships with open access publishers.

• Biomed Central, MSK authors receive a 15% page charge discount for papers published in BMC journals. The Library is a Supporter Member of BMC.
• Nucleic Acids Research, MSK authors are eligible for discounted page charges of up to $1,335 per manuscript.
• Public Library of Science, MSK authors are eligible for a 10% page charge discount for papers published in PLoS journals.

Open Access Journals

• Open Access Journals @ the MSKCC Library
• Directory of Open Access Journals
• To recommend an open access journal, please complete this form

Open Access Repositories

For a full list of open access repositories, click here.

• PubMed Central
• Canadian Breast Cancer Research Alliance
• Max Planck Society

Policies, Initiatives and Open Access News

• Harvard To Collect, Disseminate Scholarly Articles For Faculty
• SPARC: The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition
• UC Berkeley University Research Impact Initiative


• NIH Public Access Policy
• FAQ's about the NIH policy


• Budapest Open Access Initiative
• Washington D.C. Principles for Free Access to Science