Publish open access free of charge
If you are conducting research at Umeå University, you can publish your work open access in numerous journals without having to pay a publishing fee (APC, article processing charge). This is possible thanks to agreements that the library and, in some cases, research funding bodies have concluded with several publishers.
Find journals included in the agreements
In the search tool for journals included in the agreements, you can search by title, ISSN and subject. The search tool will give you an overview of the journals' publishing model and licence options, as well as links to more information about each agreement.
Terms for all publishing agreements 2025
Below, you will find both the library's agreements and agreements where the research funders pay the publishing fee (APC, article processing charge). On each agreement page, you can also find more information through guides, films, and instructions.
Terms and information for each agreement (A-Z)
American Chemical Society (ACS)
American Institute of Physics (AIP)
American Physical Society (APS)
American Society for Microbiology (ASM)
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Copernicus Publications – agreement via research funders
eLife – agreement via research funders
Frontiers – agreement via research funders
JMIR Publications – agreement via research funders
MJS Publishing – agreement via research funders
Nature and Nature Research journals
Portland Press/Biochemistry Society
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)
Public Library of Science (PLOS) – agreement via research funders
Rockefeller University Press (RUP)
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
Royal Society of Medicine (RSM)
Who is covered by the agreements?
To be able to use the agreements, three basic requirements must be fulfilled:
- You must be a corresponding author (i.e. the one handling communication with the publisher).
- Your affiliation with Umeå University must be stated in the published article.
- The research must primarily be conducted at Umeå University.
For publishers to identify you as affiliated with Umeå University, you should also:
- state Umeå University as your organisation; and
- use your email address ending in @91传媒在线 (contact the library if you do not have such an email address).
In addition to these fundamental conditions, each agreement may have further terms and conditions. Therefore, you must always check the terms and conditions of the specific publisher in question when using an agreement.
Contact the library
Do you have a question about the open access publishing agreements? Contact the library for help. Select "Publishing, theses and research data" in the contact form:
