- 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.
Via SciFree you can search for journals where you as a researcher at Linnaeus University can publish open access free of charge:
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 e-mail address from Linnaeus University (firstname.lastname@lnu.se).
At present, Linnaeus University has agreements with the following publishers:
ACM
The agreement gives authors from participating institutions the right to publish peer reviewed articles in all serial publications from the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) free of charge. The agreement covers about 150 journals and newsletters as well as 1000 conference publications. E-books are not included in the agreement.
A CC-BY license is the default choice when publishing, but the author has the option to choose which license to use.
https://libraries.acm.org/subscriptions-access/acmopen-faq
American Chemical Society (ACS)
The agreement gives authors from participating institutions the right to publish their articles in the publisher's fully open access journals and subscription-based journals that offer hybrid open access.
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 of participating institutions 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, 2025. Corresponding authors at participating organizations are routed through the publisher's system, "Read and Publish workflow".
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 (AMS)
The agreement gives authors from participating institutions 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
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, but there are a number of exceptions with CC-BY-NC. 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 of all journals in the Cambridge University Press Full Collection, which includes both hybrid journals and open access journals, a total of approximately 400 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 from participating institutions the right to publish their articles open access in the publisher's fully open access journals (5 titles) free of charge.
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/index/about/aboutInstitutionalMembers
Copernicus
The agreement with Copernicus includes paid publication in all of the publisher's journals.
The research funders, the Swedish Research Council, Forte, Formas and Vinnova, have decided to jointly finance publication with publishers that only publish fully open access journals. Copernicus is covered by this decision, which means that all researchers connected to any of the Bibsam consortium's participating organizations can publish in all of the publisher's journals, regardless of article type and without a fee for the author or organization.
A number of the journals do not charge a publication fee and are therefore not included in the workflow for the Bibsam agreement.
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 as well as all of the publisher's open access journals.
All articles are published under a CC-BY license and the article types included are primary research articles and review articles.
https://www.degruyter.com/cms/pages/funding-support?lang=en
eLife
The agreement includes paid publication in the journal eLife.
The research funders Vetenskapsrådet, Forte, Formas, and Vinnova have made a strategic decision to jointly finance publications in journals that exclusively publish fully open-access content. eLife is covered by this decision, which means that all researchers affiliated with any of the participating organizations in the Bibsam consortium can publish in all of eLife's journals, regardless of article type and without any fees for authors or organizations.
Read more
https://elifesciences.org/about/
Elsevier
The agreement grants authors from participating institutions the right to publish their articles in 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:
- Data in brief
- Full-length article
- Insights
- Micro-article
- Original software publication
- Protocols
- Review article
- Short communication
- Short review
- Video article
Emerald
The agreement gives authors from participating institutions 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 Vetenskapsrådet, Forte, Formas, and Vinnova have made a strategic decision to jointly finance publications in journals that exclusively publish fully open-access content. Frontiers is covered by this decision, which means that all researchers affiliated with any of the participating organizations in the Bibsam consortium can publish in all of Frontiers journals, regardless of article type and without any fees for authors or organizations.
https://www.frontiersin.org/about/publishing-fees
JMIR
The research funders Vetenskapsrådet, Forte, Formas, and Vinnova have made a strategic decision to jointly finance publications in journals that exclusively publish fully open-access content. JMIR is covered by this decision, which means that all researchers affiliated with any of the participating organizations in the Bibsam consortium can publish in all of JMIR's journals, regardless of article type and without any fees for authors or organizations.
Articles accepted for publication in JMIR journals from 2024-06-01 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 from participating institutions 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
MDPI
The agreement with MDPI gives authors from participating institutions a 25 % discount on the article processing charge when publishing in one of the publisher's journals.
You must state your affiliation to Linnaeus University to gain access to the discount. The APC can be covered by a publishing grant from the university. Contact researchsupport@lnu.se for more information.
MJS Publishing
The research funders Vetenskapsrådet, Forte, Formas, and Vinnova have made a strategic decision to jointly finance publications in journals that exclusively publish fully open-access content. MJS is covered by this decision, which means that all researchers affiliated with any of the participating organizations in the Bibsam consortium can publish in all MJS journals, regardless of article type and without any fees for authors or organizations.
https://medicaljournalssweden.se/
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.
OUP journals generally offer three CC licenses: CC-BY, CC-BY-NC and CC-BY-NC-ND.
The agreement covers peer-reviewed research articles of the following types: "research article", "review article", "brief report" and "case report".
In the following titles, the journal charges a fee for article acceptance for publication:
- 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)
In the following titles, the journal charges a fee for article submission for publication (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)
- Stem Cells Translational Medicine (2157-6580)
- Stem Cells (1549-4918)
- American Journal of Hypertension (1941-7225)
- Neuro-Oncology (1523-5866)
- The Plant Cell (1532-298X)
- Plant Physiology (1532-2548)
PLOS
The research funders, the Swedish Research Council, Forte, Formas and Vinnova, have made a policy decision to jointly finance publication with publishers that only publish fully open access journals. PLOS is covered by this decision, which means that all researchers connected to any of the Bibsam consortium's participating organizations will be able to publish in all PLOS journals without a fee for authors or organizations.
All articles are published under the CC-BY 4.0 license.
The agreement covers all article types accepted within the agreement period.
PLOS has recorded an instruction on how researchers should proceed in the system if they want to have the publication fee covered by the national agreement: https://vimeo.com/727034731
https://plos.org/your-journal-options/
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 $5,495 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
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 and 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 from participating institutions the right to publish their articles open access in the publisher's hybrid journals (Open Select), and in the publisher's fully open journals. Publication in journals from the publishers Dove Medical Press and PeerJ and on the Faculty of 1000 platform is not included.
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.
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 ("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.
The majority of journals offer publication with CC-BY, CC-BY-NC or CC-BY-NC-ND licenses. However, over 60 of the publisher's journals only offer CC-BY if the research funder requires this.
Contact us
Do you have questions regarding financial support for open access publishing? Please contact researchsupport@lnu.se.