Financial support for Open Access publishing
Publish Open Access with funding through national library agreements with various publishers. Via SciFree you can find journals that are covered by these agreements.
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 13 000 journals.
Overview per publisher
Springer Nature – Researchers affiliated with Mid Sweden University can publish articles Open Access free of charge in both hybrid journals and full Open Access journals.
Information about the Springer Nature 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 University Press – 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. New from January 2024: full Open Access journals included in the agreement.
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.
Information from ACS
AIP (American Institute of Physics) – Researchers affiliated with Mid Sweden University can publish articles Open Access free of charge in any of the 26 hybrid journals. New from January 2026: full Open Access journals included in the agreement.
Information from AIP
Oxford University Press – Researchers affiliated with Mid Sweden University can publish articles Open Access free of charge in both hybrid and full Open Access journals.
Information from Oxford
BMJ – Researchers affiliated with Mid Sweden University can publish articles Open Access free of charge in both hybrid and full Open Access journals.
Information from BMJ
Brill – Researchers affiliated with Mid Sweden University can publish articles Open Access free of charge in both hybrid and full Open Access journals.
Information from Brill
Emerald – Researchers affiliated with Mid Sweden University can publish articles Open Access free of charge in both hybrid and full Open Access journals.
Information from Emerald
ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) – 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
Mark Allen Healthcare – Researchers affiliated with Mid Sweden University can publish articles Open Access free of charge in any of the 18 hybrid journals.
The joint funding by research funders
The policy decision made by the research funders Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet), Forte, Formas, and Vinnova to jointly finance publishing with publishers that exclusively publish open access journals is extended for 2026. This decision means that researchers at all organizations participating in the Bibsam Consortium can publish with the following eight publishers without any fees for either the author or the institution: Copernicus, eLife, Frontiers, JMIR, MDPI, MJS Publishing, Pensoft Publishers, and PLOS.
There is currently a debate in Sweden about MDPI and questionable quality reviews.
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.
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