Springer Nature

The open access publishing fee (APC, article processing charge) has been pre-paid through an agreement between the library and Springer Nature. This applies to open access publishing in all Springer Nature open access journals and a large part of their hybrid journals. A few journals do not offer open access publishing; they are subscription-only journals.

For Nature and Nature Research journals, go to the Nature and Nature Research journals agreement.

Terms and conditions

• You must be the corresponding author, i.e., the one handling communication with the publisher and journal.
• Your Umeå University affiliation must be stated in the published article.
• Use your university email ending with @umu.se. The email domain is often used to recognise your eligibility.
• The agreement applies to the article types “original paper”, “review paper”, “brief communication” and “continuous education”.
• Your article will be published under a CC BY licence.
• The agreement does not cover additional charges, such as page charges or charges for colour illustrations.

How the publishing process works

Upon acceptance, you will be asked to confirm your affiliation on Springer’s publication platform. Select “Umeå University” from the dropdown list.

Read more about the publishing process on the Springer Nature website:

Open access agreements for Sweden - information for authors

Open access Springer journal

The submission process works best if you are connected to the university network (via internet on campus or VPN) when you submit your manuscript to a Springer journal. This will enable you to be automatically recognised as an Umeå University-affiliated author.

If you’re not connected to the network, select ”I accept responsibility for paying the processing charge on this article”. The “membership” and “discount” options do not apply to the type of agreement that the library has with Springer Nature.

The actual verification of your affiliation to Umeå University will take place upon article acceptance. Confirm your institutional affiliation on Springer’s publishing platform by selecting “Umea University” in the dropdown list.