Financial support for Open Access publishing

Publish Open Access through national library agreements

Researchers affiliated with Mid Sweden University have the opportunity to publish open access free of charge in journals from various publishers. This is made possible through national library agreements meaning that the library will cover the APC costs (APC = article processing charge). This means that you can publish open access for free. Since publishers often identifies eligible articles from your email domain name, make sure to always use your Mid Sweden University e-mail address (firstname.lastname@miun.se) at all stages of the publishing.

The University Library is now launching a new search tool to find these journals. The search tool will make it easier to find journals with cost-free OA publishing. All journals covered by our agreements are included in the tool, which contains around 12 000 journals. Note! MDPI journals are not included. More information on why can be found further down the page.

SciFree Journal Search Tool

Overview per publisher

Springer Compact – Researchers affiliated with Mid Sweden University can publish articles Open Access free of charge in any of Springers 1850 hybrid journals. 
Information about Springer Compact agreement
Journals within the Springer Compact agreement

Springer Nature Fully OA – Researchers affiliated with Mid Sweden University can publish articles Open Access free of charge in full Open Access journals. 
Information about Springer Nature Fully OA agreement

Taylor & Francis – Researchers affiliated with Mid Sweden University can publish articles Open Access free of charge in any of Taylor & Francis 2300 hybrid journals. New from January 2022: full Open Access journals included in the agreement.
Information about the Taylor & Francis agreement

Cambridge – Researchers affiliated with Mid Sweden University can publish articles Open Access free of charge in both hybrid and full Open Access journals. 
Information about the Cambridge agreement

Elsevier – Researchers affiliated with Mid Sweden University can publish articles Open Access free of charge in both hybrid and full Open Access journals.
Information from Elsevier

Sage – Researchers affiliated with Mid Sweden University can publish articles Open Access free of charge in any of the hybrid journals.
Information from Sage

Wiley – Researchers affiliated with Mid Sweden University can publish articles Open Access free of charge in both hybrid and full Open Access journals.
Information from Wiley

ACS (American Chemical Society) – Researchers affiliated with Mid Sweden University can publish articles Open Access free of charge in both hybrid and full Open Access journals.

APS (American Physical Society) – Researchers affiliated with Mid Sweden University can publish articles Open Access free of charge in both hybrid and full Open Access journals.

SPIE – Researchers affiliated with Mid Sweden University can publish articles Open Access free of charge in both hybrid and full Open Access journals.

Oxford – Researchers affiliated with Mid Sweden University can publish articles Open Access free of charge in any of Oxfords 313 hybrid journals.
Information from Oxford

De Gruyter – Researchers affiliated with Mid Sweden University can publish articles Open Access free of charge in both hybrid and full Open Access journals.

BMJ – Researchers affiliated with Mid Sweden University can publish articles Open Access free of charge in both hybrid and full Open Access journals.

Brill – Researchers affiliated with Mid Sweden University can publish articles Open Access free of charge in both hybrid and full Open Access journals.

Emerald – Researchers affiliated with Mid Sweden University can publish articles Open Access free of charge in both hybrid and full Open Access journals.

ACM – Researchers affiliated with Mid Sweden University can publish articles Open Access free of charge in both hybrid and full Open Access journals.
Information from ACM

APC discounts

Sage offers subscribing institutions 20% discount when publishing in full Open Access journals. The invoice will be sent to the corresponding author.

Frontiers offers BIBSAM institutions 10% discount when publishing in their journals. The invoice must be sent via the library in order to get the discount, but the author takes the cost.

MDPI offers BIBSAM institutions 10% discount when publishing in their journals.

There is currently a debate in Sweden about MDPI and questionable quality reviews.
Since January 2022, we have chosen to join Bibsam’s discount agreement with MDPI upon request from researchers at the university.

The University Library recommends that anyone considering publishing at MDPI critically review the current journal.

For more information, see this panel discussion organised by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
Read the report Combatting Predatory Academic Journals and Conferences by The InterAcademy Partnership (IAP).

Questions concerning the manuscript workflows and invoicing, please contact us.