Open Access-agreements
MF has entered into agreements for Open Access publishing with four publishers. One of the agreements (MDPI) offers discounts on APC (article processing charges), while the other deals cover the whole APC.
Information about the APC agreements 2023:
The Springer Nature and the Taylor&Francis agreements have been renewed.
27.04: The Wiley agreement has been renewed.
Contacts
Hanne Storm Ofteland
Chief Librarian
Unn Målfrid Høgseth Rolandsen
Director of Research
In the list below you will find information about what applies to each publisher.
MDPI
- 20 % off the APC (article processing charge).
- Corresponding author must be affiliated with MF.
- MF affiliation is determined by email domain.
- The corresponding author receives the invoice.
- If you need funding for APC, please use the online application form.
Period: 01.06.2023 - 31.12.2023
Springer Compact
"Publish and read"-agreement negotiated by Sikt.
| Scope | 3-year agreement (2020-2022), starting on January 1st, 2020. The agreement has a quota for the number of open articles that can be published per year. Expenses beyond APC, such as extra pages, colour illustrations and copy editing, must be covered by the author / research group. |
| Who | The corresponding author must be affiliated with MF. Corresponding author refers to the author who is responsible for submission of the article to the journal. Thus, it is not sufficient to be listed as the corresponding author in the article. Some disciplines use the term first author instead of corresponding author. For the agreement to apply, it is important that you choose MF as your affiliation when you submit the article. It is not enough that this is listed in the article, as it is the affiliation chosen in the publisher's workflow that activates the agreement. Springer author journey (PDF). |
| What | The APC cost is covered in its entirety by MF. Open publishing does not entail extra costs for the researcher / research group. (APC=article processing charge). |
| Licences | Articles are published with a CC licence where the author retains the rights. |
| Journals | The agreement applies to the publisher's subscription journals (hybrid). These journals are included in the agreement (.xlsx). |
| Exception | - Pure Open Access journals are not included in the agreement. - Journals in SpringerOpen and Nature Research are not part of the agreement. |
| Information | - Presentation of Springer's author journey (openscience.no). - More information about the agreement at Springer's website. |
| Reading access | Students and employees are guaranteed reading rights to research articles. |
Taylor and Francis
"Publish and read"-agreement negotiated by Sikt.
| Scope | Open Select (Hybrid): 2019-2022. The agreement has a quota for the number of open articles that can be published per year. Applies to articles accepted with in the agreement period, to December 31, 2022. For 2022, articles beyond the quota will be covered. Open Journals (pure open access): 2021-2022. The agreement has unlimited publication (no quota). |
| Who | The corresponding author must be affiliated with MF. Corresponding author refers to the author who is responsible for submission of the article to the journal. Thus, it is not sufficient to be listed as the corresponding author in the article. Some disciplines use the term first author instead of corresponding author. For the agreement to apply, it is important that you choose MF as your affiliation when you submit the article. It is not enough that this is listed in the article, as it is the affiliation chosen in the publisher's workflow that activates the agreement. |
| What | - The APC cost is covered in its entirety by MF. Open publishing does not entail extra costs for the researcher / research group. (APC=article processing charge). - Expenses beyond APC, such as extra pages, colour illustrations and copy editing, must be covered by the author / research group. |
| Licences | Articles are published with a CC licence where the author retains the rights. Read more about the licences on Taylor & Francis' website. |
| Journals | Open Select: The agreement applies to most of the publisher's subscription journals (hybrid), that is, journals in Open Select at Taylor & Francis or Routledge. These journals are included in the agreement. (.xlsx) T&F Open Journals: Journals included in the agreement. (.xlsx) |
| Exception | List of journals which are not included. |
| Information | More information about the agreement at Taylor & Francis' website. Taylor & Francis has also made a guide about the agreement. See also: Presentation of the author's workflow (Open Select/hybrid-journals). |
| Miscellaneous | Once your article is accepted, you will receive an email from T&F asking you to complete "Your Author Publishing Agreement (APA) with Taylor and Francis". Wait a few days to do this. We in the OA team would like to approve the article in our workflow before you complete the APA. You will receive a new email when the article has been approved by us. If you do not wait, the process becomes more complicated. You must not fill in invoice information and order invoices. |
| Reading access | Students and employees are guaranteed reading rights to research articles published by Taylor & Francis. |
Wiley
"Publish and read"-agreement negotiated by Sikt.
| Scope | 2019-2022. Corresponding authors from MF may publish primary research and review articles open access in any of Wiley’s fully open access journals or subscription journals that offer open access (hybrid journals) at no cost to the author. Through this agreement MF will cover the publication charges (APCs) for open publishing. |
| Who | The corresponding author must be affiliated with MF. Corresponding author refers to the author who is responsible for submission of the article to the journal. Thus, it is not sufficient to be listed as the corresponding author in the article. Some disciplines use the term first author instead of corresponding author. For the agreement to apply, it is important that you choose MF as your affiliation when you submit the article. It is not enough that this is listed in the article, as it is the affiliation chosen in the publisher's workflow that activates the agreement. |
| What | - The APC cost is covered in its entirety by MF. Open publishing does not entail extra costs for the researcher / research group. (APC=article processing charge). - Expenses beyond APC, such as extra pages, colour illustrations and copy editing, must be covered by the author / research group. |
| Licences | Articles are published with a CC-licence where the author retains the rights. |
| Journals | Both subscription journals (hybrid) and pure Open Access journals are covered by the agreement. OnlineOpen (hybrid journals): these journals are included in the agreement (.xlsx) Open Access: these pure OA-journals are included in the agreement (.xlsx) |
| Exception | The agreement does not cover all Wiley journals. This applies to journals owned by academic societies. The associations have not included their journals in the Wiley Open Access Agreement. |
| Information | - Guideline for publishing in pure Open Access-journals (PDF) In this workflow, you must enter a code for your institution. Select "MF vitenskapelig hoyskole" from this drop-down menu to get the code. - Guideline for publishing in hybrid journals (OnlineOpen) (PDF) - More information about the agreement at Wiley's webpages. |
| Reading access | Students and employees are guaranteed reading rights to research articles published by Wiley. |