- For Researchers
- 5. Publish, Utilize and Make Your Research Visible
- Open Access
- Grants for publishing open access
Grants for publishing open access
If you are a researcher at Linnaeus University and the author of a publication that is published open access, you can apply for a grant to cover the publishing fee, in whole or in part. You also have access to agreements for prepaid and discounted publication fees. This is a part of the University Library's research support.
Apply for a Publishing Grant
Article in Journal
Are you a researcher at Linnaeus University whose article has been accepted to an open access journal? If so, you can apply for a grant to cover the publishing fee. The purpose of the publishing grant is to facilitate the transition to an open science system. According to the research proposal from 2016, the aim is that at the latest 2026, all publicly funded publications should be open access immediately when they are published.
Within this support, the university will only provide grants for publishing in so called gold open access journals, that is, journals that make their articles open access without delay. For open access publishing in subscription based journals, so called hybrid open access, there are agreements on prepaid and discounted publication fees. Read more about this further down on this page.
What terms apply for a Open Access Publishing Grant?
Applies from 181022.
- Grants are provided for publishing in fully open access journals (journals not funded through subscription fees and where all articles immediately become open access). Grants are not provided for publishing in hybrid journals. The journal should meet the quality requirements of OASPA
- The applicant must be the corresponding author of the article
- The applicant must state the affiliation Linnaeus University in the article
- Grants are not provided for students (with the exception of doctoral students)
- Grants are only provided for publication fees (APC), and not for associated costs such as extra pages, images etc.
- A maximum of 30 000 SEK can be granted for each article. A maximum of 60 000 SEK can be granted per monograph/anthology.
- If the applicant's external research funder offers the possibility to finance the publishing fee, the application will not be granted
- We practice the "first come, first served" principle, and when the allocated funds are used up, the open access grant will cease.
- Immediately after the article is published, it is also to be published in full text in DiVA
Monographs, Anthologies and Book Chapters
We also accept applications for grants regarding open access publishing in monographs, anthologies and book chapters. Send your application to researchsupport@lnu.se.
Prepaid and Discounted Publication Fees
Through membership of the Bibsam consortium, Linnaeus University has access to a number of agreements with various publishers that give authors at the university the access to different prepaid or discounted publication fees. We also have a few local agreements that include free or reduced-cost publishing.
Via SciFree you can search for journals that are included in these agreements:
To be entitled to prepaid publication fees and discounts, you must be the corresponding author for your article. You must also be affiliated to Linnaeus University and use your LNU email address.
At present, Linnaeus University has agreements with the following publishers:
American Chemical Society (ACS)
The agreement gives authors the right to publish their articles in all of the publisher's fully open access journals and hybrid journals.
All articles are published under a CC-BY license.
The agreement covers all types of articles that are peer-reviewed.
Guide for ACS Publications journal manuscript submission
American Institute of Physics (AIP)
The agreement gives authors the right to publish open access free of charge in 25 hybrid journals from AIP Journals.
All articles are published under a CC-BY license.
All peer-reviewed articles or other peer-reviewed material are included.
https://publishing.aip.org/resources/researchers/open-science/read-and-publish/authors/
American Physical Society (APS)
The agreement includes unlimited publication of open access articles in the publisher's hybrid journals (Reviews of Modern Physics does not offer hybrid publishing).
Publication under the agreement applies to articles accepted for publication after January 1, 2026.
All articles are published under a CC-BY license.
The agreement covers most article types, "including but not limited to: Regular Articles, Letters, Rapid Communications, Reviews, Perspectives, and Short Papers."
American Society for Microbiology (ASM)
The agreement gives authors the right to publish in the publisher's six Subscribe to Open (S2O) journals without article processing charges.
The publisher have a page charge where participating institutions and ASM members receive a discount. Info about page fees:
https://journals.asm.org/publication-fees
Journals that are included:
- Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy
- Applied and Environmental Microbiology
- Infection and Immunity
- Journal of Bacteriology
- Journal of Clinical Microbiology
- Journal of Virology
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
The agreement gives authors the right to publish in serial publications from the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) free of charge.
All research articles that require a publication fee are included.
A CC-BY license is the default choice when publishing, but the author has the option to choose which license to use.
BMJ
The agreement includes publishing in both hybrid and open access journals:
- BMJ Gold OA Journals
- BMJ Premier Collection
Publishing is done under CC-BY as standard.
The agreement covers research and review articles accepted during the agreement period.
https://authors.bmj.com/open-access-sweden/
Brill
The agreement includes unlimited publication of open access articles in all hybrid and fully open access journals from the publisher.
Authors affiliated with participating organizations also receive a 20% discount on the price when publishing open access books.
All articles are published under a CC-BY license.
The agreement covers the following article types:
Research Articles
Review Articles
Rapid Communication
Brief Reports
Case Reports
Cambridge University Press
The agreement includes unrestricted open access publishing in all journals in the Cambridge University Press Full Collection. The collection includes both hybrid journals and open access journals.
CC-BY is the standard for publishing, but the publisher also offers publishing under CC-BY-NC, CC-BY-NC-SA and CC-BY-NC-ND.
The following article types are included in the agreement: research articles, review articles, rapid communications, brief reports and case reports.
Cogitatio
The agreement gives authors the right to publish their articles open access in the publisher's fully open access journals free of charge.
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/index/about/aboutInstitutionalMembers
Copernicus
The research funders the Swedish Research Council, Forte, Formas and Vinnova have decided to jointly fund publishing with publishers that publish only open access journals. Copernicus is included in this decision, which means that all researchers affiliated with any of the organizations participating in the Bibsam Consortium can publish in the publisher’s journals without any fee.
A few of the journals do not charge a publication fee and are therefore not included in the workflow for the Bibsam agreement.
All articles are published under a CC-BY licence.
The agreement covers all article types.
https://publications.copernicus.org/for_authors/article_processing_charges.html
De Gruyter
The agreement includes free open access publishing in all journals in the De Gruyter Complete Package that offer this, under either the hybrid or the S2O model, as well as all of the publisher's open access journals.
All articles are published under a CC-BY license.
The article types included are primary research articles and review articles.
https://www.degruyter.com/cms/pages/funding-support?lang=en
Edinburgh university press
The agreement provides for publication with open access in nine journals from Edinburgh university press.
All articles are published with a CC-BY license.
eLife
The research funders the Swedish Research Council, Forte, Formas and Vinnova have decided to jointly fund publishing with publishers that publish only open access journals. eLife is included in this decision, which means that all researchers affiliated with any of the organizations participating in the Bibsam Consortium can publish in the publisher’s journal eLife without any fee.
All articles are published under the CC-BY licence.
The agreement covers the article types Research Articles, Short Reports, Research Advances, and Tools and Resources Articles, i.e., article types that would otherwise incur a publication fee.
Elsevier
The agreement grants authors the right to publish their articles open access free of charge in:
- hybrid journals in the Science Direct Freedom Collection
- hybrid journals from learned societies
- Cell Press hybrid journals
- all fully open access journals
The date an article was submitted (Submission Date) determines whether the publication fee is covered by the agreement.
CC-BY is the first choice and is required for publishing within the framework of the agreement.
The following article types are covered by the agreement:
- Case reports
- Data in briefs
- Full-length articles
- Micro-articles
- Original software publication
- Practice guidelines
- Protocols
- Replication studies
- Review articles
- Short communications
- Short survey
- Video articles
Emerald
The agreement gives authors the right to publish their articles with open access in all of the publisher's journals free of charge.
All articles are published under a CC-BY license.
The agreement covers research articles.
Frontiers
The research funders the Swedish Research Council, Forte, Formas and Vinnova have decided to jointly fund publishing with publishers that publish only open access journals. Frontiers is included in this decision, which means that all researchers affiliated with any of the organizations participating in the Bibsam Consortium can publish in the publisher’s journals without any fee.
All articles are published under a CC-BY licence.
The agreement covers all article types.
https://www.frontiersin.org/about/publishing-fees
JMIR
The research funders the Swedish Research Council, Forte, Formas and Vinnova have decided to jointly fund publishing with publishers that publish only open access journals. JMIR is included in this decision, which means that all researchers affiliated with any of the organizations participating in the Bibsam Consortium can publish in the publisher’s journals without any fee.
Articles accepted for publication in JMIR journals from 2026-01-01 are covered by the agreement.
All articles are published under the CC-BY license.
The agreement covers all article types.
https://jmir.org/author-information/instructions-for-authors
John Benjamins
The agreement gives authors the right to publish their articles open access in all of the publisher's journals.
All articles are published with a CC-BY license.
The agreement covers all types of articles.
https://benjamins.com/content/authors/openaccesspolicy
Journal of general virology
The agreement provides for publication with open access in the Journal of General Virology.
All articles are published with a CC-BY license.
https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/upload/MS-AuthorGuide.pdf
MDPI
The research funders the Swedish Research Council, Forte, Formas and Vinnova have decided to jointly fund publishing with publishers that publish only open access journals. MDPI is included in this decision, which means that all researchers affiliated with any of the organizations participating in the Bibsam Consortium can publish in the publisher’s journals without any fee.
Articles submitted to the publisher’s journals from 2026‑01‑01 are covered by the agreement.
All articles are published under the CC-BY license.
The agreement covers all article types.
MJS Publishing
The research funders the Swedish Research Council, Forte, Formas and Vinnova have decided to jointly fund publishing with publishers that publish only open access journals. MJS is included in this decision, which means that all researchers affiliated with any of the organizations participating in the Bibsam Consortium can publish in the publisher’s journals without any fee.
Oxford University Press
The agreement gives authors from participating institutions the right to publish their articles in the publisher's hybrid journals in the Oxford Journals Collection with some exceptions. The agreement also covers the publisher's fully open journals in the collection OUP Fully Open Access.
The default licence for all articles is CC-BY. The licence can be changed to CC-BY-NC or CC-BY-NC-ND at the author’s explicit request.
The agreement covers peer-reviewed research articles of the following types: "research article", "review article", "brief report" and "case report".
These titles charge a fee for article acceptance:
- Journal of Leukocyte Biology (1938-3673)
- Stem Cells (1549-4918)
- Plant Physiology (1532-2548)
- The Plant Cell (1532-298X)
- Neuro-Oncology (1523-5866)
- Biology of Reproduction (1529-7268)
These journals charge a fee for article submission (submission fees):
- Journal of Financial Econometrics (1479-8417)
- The Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization (1465-7341)
- SLEEP (1550-9109)
- Social Forces (1534-7605)
- Social Problems (1533-8533)
- American Journal of Hypertension (1941-7225)
- Neuro-Oncology (1523-5866)
- The Plant Cell (1532-298X)
- Plant Physiology (1532-2548)
- Bioscience (1525-3244)
These journals charge page fees:
- American Journal of Epidemiology
- Clinical Infectious Diseases
- European Journal of Endocrinology
- Endocrinology
- Glycobiology
- The Journal of Infectious Diseases
- The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism
- Journal of Mammalogy
- Journal of Neuropathology & Experimental Neurology
- Systematic Biology
Pensoft
The research funders the Swedish Research Council, Forte, Formas and Vinnova have decided to jointly fund publishing with publishers that publish only open access journals. Pensoft is included in this decision, which means that all researchers affiliated with any of the organizations participating in the Bibsam Consortium can publish in the publisher’s journals without any fee.
All articles are published under a CC-BY licence.
The agreement covers all article types that require a publication fee.
PLOS
The research funders the Swedish Research Council, Forte, Formas and Vinnova have decided to jointly fund publishing with publishers that publish only open access journals. PLOS is included in this decision, which means that all researchers affiliated with any of the organizations participating in the Bibsam Consortium can publish in the publisher’s journals without any fee.
All articles are published under the CC-BY 4.0 license.
The agreement covers all article types accepted within the agreement period.
https://plos.org/our-journals/
PNAS
The agreement with the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences gives authors from participating institutions the option to pay a discounted publication fee of $5,575 for an article with a CC BY-NC-ND license or a CC-BY license. Note that all articles in PNAS automatically become freely available after 6 months.
You must state that you want to publish open access and state that you belong to Linnaeus University and that the university has a subscription to PNAS to gain access to the discount.
https://www.pnas.org/page/subscriptions/open-access
SAGE
The agreement gives authors of participating institutions the right to publish their articles open access in most of the journals in the Sage Premier package and all journals in the Sage Gold OA package.
Most articles are published under a CC-BY license. Specific requirements from research funders regarding CC licenses are accepted if the author discloses this.
https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/open-access-agreements-at-sage/sweden
Springer Nature
The agreement gives Lnu authors the right to publish their articles with open access free of charge in all of the publisher's open access journals and the majority of the publisher's hybrid journals.
All articles are published under a CC-BY license.
The article types included are Original Paper, Review Paper, Brief Communication and Continuing Education.
www.springernature.com/gp/open-research/oa-agreements/sweden
Taylor & Francis
The agreement gives authors the right to publish their articles open access in the majority of the publisher's hybrid journals (Open Select Journals), and in the publisher's fully open journals.
Publishing in journals from the publishers Dove Medical Press and PeerJ, as well as on the Faculty of 1000 platform, is not included. Expert Medicine Journals (formerly Future Science Group) is also excluded.
Research and review articles are included in the agreement. These are usually categorised as "Article", "Research Article", "Review" or "Review Article", but variations exist. Other article types such as Editorials, Announcements and Book Reviews are not included.
CC-BY is the default licence, but it can be changed to another CC licence if the author wishes.
https://www.tandfonline.com/openaccess/members/bibsam-consortium
Wiley
The agreement covers open access publishing in all of the publisher's journals.
All articles that fall into the general categories of research article ("Original article", "Primary research article") or review article are included in the agreement. Within each category there are a number of subcategories and the journals that Wiley publishes also often have their own names for the different article types. Before an article is submitted for open access publication within the agreement, it is mapped against the two main types and only articles that are identified as research or review articles are allowed through.
Contact us
Do you have questions regarding financial support for open access publishing? Please contact researchsupport@lnu.se.