Open Access Publishing Agreement
University West offers several advantageous national agreements which allow our researchers and doctoral students to publish their articles Open Access free of charge or with a discount.
When you as a researcher or doctoral student are to publish in journals with fully or partially open access, you are usually required to pay a Article Processing Charge, (APC) to make the article freely available. After that, the article is open for reading without any requirement for a journal subscription. Through the national agreements signed by the library, all or part of the publication fee can be covered.
What do I do as an author to participate in an agreement?
- You need to be the corresponding author, be an employee or doctoral student at University West at the time of article submission. You should use your email address of University West. Corresponding author is the person who handles the manuscript and communication with the publisher during the publishing process.
- Make sure that your affiliation is correct. It is possible to add another affiliation as well.
- Once an article is accepted, you will receive information from the publisher on how to proceed
- The library will verify your University West affiliation when the article is submitted or accepted.
Publishers we have agreements with
- ACM Open
- AIP
- Cambridge
- Cappelen Damm Forskning
- eLife
- Elsevier/ScienceDirect
- Emerald
- Frontiers
- Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR)
- MJS Publishing
- PLOS
- Publicera
- Sage
- Springer Nature
- Taylor & Francis
- Wiley
ACM OPEN 2022-2026
Publishing fee
No publishing fee for corresponding authors from University West when publishing Open Access. The agreement covers all types of research articles.
CC license
CC BY, but you have also opportunity to choose another CC license.
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AIP 2025
Publishing fee
No publishing fee for corresponding authors at University West. The agreement covers peer review articles or other peer review material.
CC license
CC-BY
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Cambridge core 2022-2025
Publishing fee
No publishing fee for corresponding authors from University West when publishing Open Access. The agreement covers research articles, review articles, rapid communications, brief reports and case reports.
CC license
CC-BY, CC-BY-NC, CC-BY-NC-ND or CC-BY-NC-SA.
Read more about licences on Cambridge Core's website
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Cambridge Core Journals’ website
Cappelen Damm Forskning 2025
Publishing fee
No publishing fee for corresponding authors from University West when publishing Open Access. The agreement covers the Swedish journal Högre utbilning.
CC license
CC-BY
eLife 202
Publishing Fee
No publishing fee for corresponding authors affiliated with a participating institution when publishing Open Access. The agreement covers Research Articles, Short Reports, Research Advances and Tools and Resources Articles.
CC license
CC-BY
Elsevier/ ScienceDirect 2024-2027
Publishing fee
No publishing fee for corresponding authors from University West when publishing Open Access. The agreement covers:
- Data in brief
- Full-length article
- Insights
- Micro-article
- Original software publication
- Protocols
- Review article
- Short communication
- Short review
- Video article
CC-license
CC-BY or CC-BY-NC-ND
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Emerald, 2021-2025
Publishing fee
No publishing fee for corresponding authors from University West when publishing Open Access. The agreement covers research articles.
CC license
CC-BY
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Frontiers 2025
Publishing fee
No publishing fee for corresponding authors from University West when publishing Open Access. The agreement covers all types of articles.
CC license
CC-BY
Journals of Medical Internet Research (JMIR) 2025
Publishing Fee
No publishing fee for corresponding authors affiliated with a participating institution when publishing Open Access. The agreement covers all types of articles.
CC license
CC-BY
MJS Publishing 2025
Publishing fee
No publishing fee for corresponding authors from University West when publishing Open Access. The agreement covers all types of articles.
CC license
CC-BY
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PLOS 2025
Publishing fee
No publishing fee for corresponding authors from University West when publishing Open Access. The agreement covers all types of articles approved during the contract period.
CC license
CC-BY
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Publicera 2025
Publishing fee
Publicera is the journal platform of The National Library of Sweden. All journals here are Diamond Open Access which means there is no charge for either authors or readers.
CC license
CC-BY but more licences are available.
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Sage 2020-2027
Publishing fee
No publishing fee for corresponding authors from University West when publishing Open Access in SAGE Premier hybrid journals.
The agreement includes Open Access Material, but is not limited to, original research papers, review papers, brief communications, short reports and case reports. For the avoidance of doubt, this excludes articles published as part of commercially sponsored supplements, errata, book reviews, editorials, published abstracts, call for papers, news items or similar.
NOTE! 20% APC discount when publishing in SAGE Fully (Gold) Open Access journals. Ask the library for more information.
CC license
CC-BY
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Springer Nature 2022-2028
Publication fee
No publishing fee for corresponding authors from University West when publishing Open Access. The agreement covers Original Paper, Review Paper, Brief Communication and Continuing Education.
CC license
CC-BY
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Taylor & Francis 2022-2027
Publication fee
No publishing fee for corresponding authors from University West when publishing Open Access. Research and review articles are included in the agreement. Usually these are categorized as "Article", "Research Article", "Review" or "Review Article", but depending on the journal and subject area, other designations may appear. Article types such as Editorials, Announcements and Book Reviews are not included.
CC license
CC BY, CC BY-NC eller CC BY-NC-ND
Read more about licenses at Taylor & Francis' website
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Wiley, 2022-2025
Publication fee
No publishing fee for corresponding authors from University West when publishing Open Access. All articles that belong to the overall categories research article ("Original article", "Primary research article") or overview article ("Review article") are included in the agreement. Within each category there are a number of subcategories and the journals that Wiley publishes also in many cases have their own names for the different article types. Before an article is forwarded for open access publication within the agreement, it is mapped against the two main types and only articles identified as research and review articles are passed through.
CC license
CC-BY, CC-BY-NC or CC-BY-NC-ND
Read more about licenses at Wiley´s website.
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