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Open access publishing agreements

If you are conducting research at Umeå University, you can publish your work open access in numerous journals without having to pay a publishing fee (APC, article processing charge). This is possible thanks to the library's agreements with several publishers, as well as agreements via research funders. On this page, you can find out more about the agreements and also search for specific journals covered under these agreements.

Publishing agreements 2025

Below, you will find both the library's agreements and agreements where the research funders pay the publishing fee (APC, article processing charge). On each agreement page, you can also find more information through guides, films, and instructions.

It is crucial that you review the terms of the specific agreement that applies to the journal in which you want to publish.

All agreements

American Chemical Society (ACS) 

American Institute of Physics (AIP)

American Physical Society (APS) 

American Society for Microbiology (ASM)

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

BMJ

Brill

Bristol University Press

Cambridge University Press (CUP)

Cogitatio Press

Company of Biologists

Copernicus Publications – agreement via research funders

eLife – agreement via research funders

Elsevier

Emerald

Ergo

Frontiers – agreement via research funders

Institute of Physics (IOP) 

JMIR Publications – agreement via research funders

John Benjamins Publishing

Karger

Mark Allen Healthcare

Microbiology Society

MJS Publishing – agreement via research funders

Nature and Nature Research journals

Oxford University Press (OUP)

Portland Press/Biochemistry Society

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)

Project MUSE

Public Library of Science (PLOS) – agreement via research funders

Rockefeller University Press (RUP)

The Royal Society

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 

Royal Society of Medicine (RSM) 

Sage

Sage IOS Press

Springer Nature

Taylor & Francis

Wiley

Who is covered by the agreements?

To be able to use the agreements, four basic requirements must be fulfilled:

  • You must be a corresponding author (i.e. the one handling communication with the publisher).
  • You must use your email address ending in @umu.se and state Umeå University as your organisation.
  • Your affiliation with Umeå University must be stated in the published article.
  • The research should mainly be conducted at Umeå University.

Please note that you must also review the terms and conditions of each individual publisher agreement. 

Latest update: 2025-01-15