The University of Latvia Library (UL Library) encourages corresponding authors from the University of Latvia to take advantage of the opportunity to publish scientific articles in open access with article processing charges (APC) discount. This offer is made possible by Latvia's membership in the EIFL organization, which has negotiated with several scientific publishers and offers authors the opportunity to receive discounts when publishing articles in open access scientific journals.
Publishers and discounts included:
- Brill – 60% discount when publishing in open access and hybrid journals;
- Cambridge University Press* – free when publishing in hybrid and open access journals;
- De Gruyter – free when publishing in Subscribe to Open journals;
- Microbiology Society – free when publishing in hybrid journals and open access journals;
- Sage* – 20% discount when publishing in SAGE Gold Open Access collection open access journals and free publication in SAGE Choice hybrid journals;
- The Company of Biologists – free when publishing in hybrid journals and open access journals;
- Taylor & Francis – 50% discount when publishing in open access journals, including Cogent publications;
- World Scientific – 50% discount when publishing in hybrid journals and open access journals.
* To enable the publication discount, the UL Library has signed a Read & Publish agreement with the publisher.

Take into consideration that each publisher could have differences.