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Library publishing agreements

Linköping University Library has a number of Read and Publish agreements with publishers. These agreements cover both rights to access articles and Open Access publishing for LiU authors. This page includes information about these agreements and a search box for finding out if individual journals are covered by an agreement.

The Library’s publishing agreements can cover the whole, or part of, the Article Processing Charge (APC) when publishing in hybrid journals and pure Open Access journals. You can find an exhaustive list of our agreements and discounts further down on this page. 

Read more about hybrid journals and other types of Open Access journals at: Open Access

A basic requirement to publish under one of the agreements is that you are formally affiliated with Linköping University. Such an affiliation can be that you are an employee, a PhD student, or a professor emeritus at LiU. Beyond these categories, a formal LiU affiliation is defined in the decision from the Vice-Chancellor from 31 May, 2021, Dnr LiU-2021-02223.

Criteria for receiving discount on APC

Beyond a formal affiliation to LiU, the following requirements are necessary for you to publish under one of the agreements:

 

You are the corresponding author.

The corresponding author is also the person who submits the manuscript and maintains contact with the publisher during the publishing process.

(There is one exception to this criterium, see agreement marked * under Publishers.)

 

You are using your LiU affiliation in the article and in the publisher’s manuscript submission system.

 

You are using your @liu email in the article and in the publisher’s manuscript submission system. 

If you don't have an @liu email, you may need to contact the publisher to verify your affiliation.

Important points to consider

  • By including your correct LiU affiliation and your @liu.se email address in the article and manuscript submission system, publishers will usually identify the article as covered by an agreement automatically. In some cases you need to provide certain information. If you are using the internet on campus or are using VPN when you submit your article, that might help the publisher to automatically identify your article as potentially covered by an agreement.
  • Please note that authors may still need to cover colour charges, page charges and other ancillary costs not covered by the agreements.
  • Since we are in a transition period when it comes to transformative agreements, journals which are covered by an agreement are subject to change. Use the search box below to find out if a specific journal is covered by any of our agreements. Please double check before submitting your article.
  • Types of article covered varies depending on the agreement. Please double check if you are about to publish an item that is not an original research article.

Which journals are covered by a publishing agreement?

Use the search box to find out if a specific journal is covered by any of the agreements. You can search journal title or name of publisher.

Contact

If you have any questions, contact the Library at biblioteket@liu.se

Publishers

Does LiU have an agreement?

American Chemical Society

The article processing charge is covered in full by the agreement.

The agreement covers all the publisher’s pure Open Access journals and hybrid journals.

Licence: CC-BY

The agreement covers all peer reviewed articles.

Read more at the publisher's website

American Institute of Physics (AIP)

The article processing charge is covered in full by the agreement. 

The agreement covers a selection of hybrid journals. 

Licence: CC-BY or CC-BY-NC

Read more at the publisher's website

American Physical Society (APS)

The article processing charge is covered in full by the agreement.

The agreement covers a selection of hybrid journals and pure Open Access journals.

License: CC-BY

Read more at the publisher's website

For the article processing charge to be covered under the agreement, corresponding authors must use their @liu.se email address.

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

The article processing charge is covered in full by the agreement.

The agreement covers all the publisher’s periodical publications. 

License: CC-BY

How it works: For the article processing charge to be covered under the agreement, corresponding authors must use their @liu.se email address.

Brill

The article processing charge is covered in full by the agreement.

The agreement covers all the publisher’s hybrid journals and pure Open Access journals.

Licence: CC-BY

Please note that the agreement covers articles accepted after 1 January, 2023.

The agreement gives a 20 per cent discount on book publishing charges.

Read more at the publisher's website

British Medical Journals Publishing (BMJ)

The article processing charge is covered in full by the agreement.

The agreement covers the publisher’s hybrid journals and pure Open Access journals (from the collections BMJ Standard Collection Journals, BMJ Non Standard Collection and BMJ Gold OA journals).

Licence: CC-BY (default) or CC-BY-NC (as an exception)

Article types that are covered are original research articles. There are a few different terms for this article type that are used depending on the journal, please contact the Library if you have any questions. 

Read more at the publisher's website

How it works: For the article processing charge to be covered by the agreement, corresponding authors must use their @liu.se email address. 

Cambridge University Press (CUP)

The article processing charge is covered in full by the agreement. 

The agreement covers all the publisher’s pure Open Access journals and hybrid journals in Cambridge University Press Full collection.

Licence: CC-BY

Article types covered by the agreement: Research articles, review articles, rapid communications, brief reports and case reports.

Read more at the publisher's website

Cogitatio Press

The article processing charge is covered in full by the agreement.

The agreement covers all the publisher’s pure OA journals.
License: CC-BY

Read more at the publisher’s website
How it works: For the article processing charge to be covered under the agreement, corresponding authors must use their @liu.se email address.

Company of Biologists

The article processing charge is covered in full by the agreement.

The agreement covers three hybrid journals:

  • Development 
  • Journal of Cell Science
  • Journal of Experimental Biology 

Licence: CC-BY

How it works: For the article processing charge to be covered by the agreement, corresponding authors must use their @liu.se email address.

Elsevier & Cell Press

The article processing charge is covered in full by the agreement.

The agreement covers a selection of hybrid journals in the Science Direct Freedom Collection (including learned societies) and Cell Press and pure open access journals.

License: CC-BY (and other CC licenses)

Read more at the publisher's website

Emerald

The article processing charge is covered in full by the agreement.

The agreement covers pure Open Access journals and hybrid journals and publishing on the Emerald Open Research Platform.

License: CC-BY (and other CC licenses)

For the article processing charge to be covered under the agreement, corresponding authors must use their @liu.se email address.

Institute of Physics (IoP)

The article processing charge is covered in full by the agreement.

The agreement covers a selection of the publisher’s hybrid journals and pure Open Access journals.

Article types that are covered by the agreement is paper, special issue paper, review och letter.

Licence: CC-BY

Read more at the publisher's website

IOP’s guide to the transformative agreement

IOS Press*

The article processing charge is covered in full by the agreement.

The agreement covers all the publisher’s pure Open Access journals and hybrid journals.

Licence: CC-BY, CC-BY-NC

How it works: Corresponding author must be LiU affiliated and is identified by using their @liu.se email address or ORCID connected to LiU. IOS has information on their website about the agreement and a short guide for authors which includes their definition of corresponding author. Please read this information before submitting. 

Read more at the publisher's website

John Benjamins

The article processing charge is covered in full by the agreement.

The agreement covers the publisher’s hybrid journals and pure Open Access journals.

Licence: CC-BY

Please note that corresponding author's must use their ROR ID or ORCID connected to LiU, and their @liu email adress. The agreement covers articles accepted after 1 January, 2023.

Read more at the publisher's website

Karger

The article processing charge is covered in full by the agreement.

The agreement covers the publisher’s hybrid journals and pure Open Access journals. Not covered by the agreement are the seven "Kompass" journals.

Licence: CC-BY, CC-BY-NC-ND

MDPI

The membership gives a 20 per cent discount on article publishing charges, and a 10 per cent discount on book publishing charges.

The membership covers pure Open Access journals and Open Access books.

Read more at the publisher's website

Medical Journals Sweden

The article processing charge is covered in full by the agreement.

The agreement covers four of the publisher's journals:

  • Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine
  • Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine - Clinical Communications 
  • Acta Dermato-Venereologica
  • Acta Orthopaedica

Licence: CC-BY

Please note that the corresponding author at submission must state that he or she is affiliated with an organization that has a publishing agreement. The corresponding author must also use his or her @liu.se email address.

Nature journals

The article processing charge is covered in full by the agreement.  

The agreement covers a selection of the publisher’s hybrid journals, called Nature research journals. Please note that not all journals on the platform nature.com are included in the agreement; Nature protocols and Nature Review journals are not included. Please contact the Library if you have any questions.

Licence: CC-BY

Article types that are included are Original papers. Different terms may be used for this article type, please contact the library for more information.

Read more on the publisher’s website

Oxford University Press (OUP)

The article processing charge is covered in full by the agreement. 

The agreement covers a selection of hybrid journals (Oxford journals collection) and pure Open Access journals (OUP fully Open Access).

Licence: CC-BY, CC-BY-NC and CC-BY-NC-ND

Article types that are included are peer reviewed research articles labelled "research article," "review article," "brief report" and "case report."

Read more on the publisher’s website

Public Library of Science (PLoS)

The article processing charge is covered in full by the agreement.

The agreement covers all the publisher’s pure OA journals.

License: CC-BY

Read more on the publisher’s website

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)

The article processing charge is covered in full by the agreement.

The agreement covers all hybrid journals in the RSC Gold Collection. The agreement also covers the pure Open Access journals RSC Advances and Nanoscale Advances.  

Licence: CC-BY, CC-BY-NC

Royal Society Publishing (RSP)

The article processing charge is covered in full by the agreement.

The agreement covers eight hybrid journals and two pure Open Access journals:

  • Biology Letters
  • Interface Focus
  • Journal of the Royal Society Interface
  • Notes and Records of the Royal Society
  • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A
  • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B
  • Proceedings of the Royal Society A
  • Proceedings of the Royal Society B                                                                       
  • Open Biology (pure OA journal)
  • Royal Society Open Science (pure OA journal)

Licence: CC-BY

SAGE

The article processing charge for hybrid journals in SAGE Premier (SAGE Choice journals) is covered in full by the agreement.

For a selection of pure Open Access journals, the discount is 20 per cent. An invoice will be sent to the corresponding author for the remaining charge.

Licence: CC-BY (varies between journals)

Read more at the publisher's website

If the corresponding author uses more than one affiliation, state Linköping University as the first affiliation. If not, the article might not be eligible to be covered by the agreement.

SPIE

The article processing charge is covered in full by the agreement.

The agreement covers all journals from the publisher.

Licence: CC-BY

Springer

The Library has two agreements with Springer. The article processing charge is covered in full by both agreements. 

The Springer Compact agreement covers a selection of hybrid journals (these journals are called ”Open choice journals”).

The Springer Nature fully OA agreement covers a selection of pure Open Access journals (from BioMed Central, Springer Open Journals, Springer Nature, NatureResearch and Palgrave Mcmillan).

Licence: CC-BY (and other CC-licences)

Article types covered by the agreement: Original Paper, Review Paper, Brief Communication and Continuing Education.

Read more at the publisher’s website: 
Springer Compact agreement (hybrid journals)
Springer Fully OA agreement (pure OA journals)

Taylor & Francis

The article processing charge is covered in full by the agreement.

The agreement covers a selection of the publisher’s hybrid journals (Open Select) and the publisher’s pure Open Access journals (which charges a fee for publication).

Licence: CC-BY, CC-BY-NC-ND

Article types covered in the agreement are research articles and review articles. 

Read more at the publisher's website

Wiley

The article processing charge is covered in full by the agreement.

The agreement covers hybrid journals and pure Open Access journals (on the Wiley online platform).

Licence: CC-BY is standard

Article types covered by the agreement are research articles and review articles.

Read more at the publisher's website

Please note that the corresponding author must have an active affiliation at the point of article acceptance to be eligible.

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Journals

Does LiU have an agreement?

PNAS

Since the Library has a subscription for the journal, LiU researchers are offered a discount on the APC. An invoice will be sent to the corresponding author for the remaining charge.

Updated information about the discounted price is available at the journal’s website. 

Licence: CC-BY or CC-BY-NC-ND

How it works: Inform the publisher that Linköping University has an institutional discount on article processing charge.

Read more at the journal's website

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