Grants for publishing open access

Applies from 220314.

• Grants are provided for journal articles, monographs, anthologies and book chapters
• 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

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

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/

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."

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

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.

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/

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

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.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/open-access-policies/read-and-publish-agreements/oa-agreements-in-sweden

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

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

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

The agreement provides for publication with open access in nine journals from Edinburgh university press.

All articles are published with a CC-BY license.

https://www.euppublishing.com/open-access

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.

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

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.

https://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/publish-with-us/publish-open-access/open-access-publishing-agreements

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

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

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

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

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.

https://www.mdpi.com/ioap

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.

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

https://academic.oup.com/pages/open-research/read-and-publish-agreements/swedish-universities-bibsam-affiliated

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.

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/

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

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

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