Journal Selectors & Publishing Discounts
BMC
A membership discount (15% off) is available on the journals article-processing charges (APCs) in BioMed Central and SpringerOpen journals for the TMU current research staffs and students until 2022/12/31.
Eligible User
Current TMU research staffs and students
Publishing Discounts
15% discount on the journals article-processing charges (APCs)
To apply for the discount...
- Please make the author information list clear with the intact unit names.
(refer to Author’s Position Writing Principles from Office of Research and Development)
- During the Submit process
- Submit within TMU campus...
If you submit your manuscript within TMU campus, the membership discount will be automatically applied.
- Submit manuscript using an unregistered IP address...
- Please select the option “I believe that I am covered by an institutional membership arrangement” on the APC agreement page
- Select "Taipei Medical University" from the drop-down list. SpringerOpen/BioMed Central Support Team will then handle your discount request before sending instructions on how to complete your submission.
- In order to confirm whether you've been included in the membership account or not, please notify TMU Librarian as soon as possible if you submit off-campus.
- If the TMU is not chosen from the dropdown list or any doubt, please contact the TMU librarian WITHIN 7 DAYS after your submission, otherwise, the publisher has the right for not providing the discount.
Related Document: About submittion to BMC/SpringerOpen 
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Journal list with APC and SCI/SSCI categories 
Related Link: BioMed Central(BMC), SpringerOpen
MDPI
TMUL has already joined the MDPI IOAP program from Oct 2020.
Eligible User
Current TMU research staffs and students
Publishing Discounts
10% discount on the journals article-processing charges (APCs)
To apply for the discount...
- DO NOT need to apply for it.
- The MDPI will use TMU email tag (@tmu.edu.tw, @h.tmu.edu.tw, @s.tmu.edu.tw, @w.tmu.edu.tw) as a filter, and the discount will be confirmed by MDPI upon submission and the Institution may disavow an author at any time before invoice payment.
- Only one discount through an IOAP scheme is permitted per paper, and the discount cannot be combined with other available discounts (e.g., discount vouchers, or society membership discounts).
Related Document: MDPI Journal List
Related Link: MDPI Journals, Controversies of MDPI (Wiki)
Contact Us
Ms. Huang
Tel: (02) 2736-1661 ext.2522
Mail: jessica@tmu.edu.tw
Updated 2022-01-22