Publish OA – open access agreements for BTH
Publish OA - open access agreements for BTH
Agreements with APC discounts or reduced access fees
In the list below you will find Bibsam Consortium agreements which include terms for Open Access.
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ACM 2015-2020
Reduced reading fee
Discount on the following year’s license fee based on paid APCs. The discount is the same for all customers globally, not dependant on what each customer pays in licenses fees. 2020 the discount is 84 USD per customer.
CC license
The author can choose between different licenses.
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Cambridge Core 2019-2021
Reduced publishing fee
No publishing fee for corresponding authors from participating organisations when publishing Open Access.
The publishing fee is paid in advance by participating organisations.
CC license
CC-BY, CC-BY-NC, CC-BY-NC-ND or CC-BY-NC-SA.
Read more about licenses on Cambridge Cores website.
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Elsevier Read and Publish 2020-2022
Reduced publishing fee
No publishing fee for corresponding authors from participating organisations when publishing Open Access.
The publishing fee is paid in advance by participating organisations.
This agreement covers articles submitted after January 1st 2020. Fees concerning the print journal, such as color and page charges, are not covered by the agreement.
Included journals
Agreement for the BIBSAM member institutions with Elsevier
CC-license
CC BY 4.0 or CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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Inderscience 2018-2020
Reduced publishing fee
20% APC discount.
CC license
CC BY eller CC BY-NC-ND
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Oxford journals 2019-2021
Reduced publishing fee
No publishing fee for corresponding authors from participating organisations when publishing Open Access up to a certain amount of articles, see below.
The publishing fee is paid in advance by participating organisations.
2019: 65% of participating organisations predicted publishing output
2020: 75% of participating organisations predicted publishing output
2021: 85% of participating organisations predicted publishing output
CC license
CC BY
Sage Read & Publish 2020-2022
Reduced publishing fee
No publishing fee for corresponding authors from participating organisations when publishing Open Access for an unlimited number of articles. You need to add a discount code in RightsLink Author Portal. Get the code here
CC license:
CC BY
Springer Compact 2019-2021
Reduced publishing fee
No publishing fee for corresponding authors from participating organisations when publishing Open Access up to a certain number of articles. For 2020 the number of articles is 1 635.
CC license:
CC-BYRead more about licenses on Springer Nature’s website
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SpringerNature Fully OA 2019-2021
Reduced publishing fee
No publishing fee for corresponding authors from participating organisations when publishing Open Access.
CC license
CC-BY
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Taylor and Francis 2018-2020
Reduced publishing fee
No publishing fee for corresponding authors from participating organisations when publishing Open Access up to a certain number of articles. For 2020 the number of articles is 1 386.
CC license
CC BY, CC BY-NC or CC BY-NC-ND
Read more about licenses on Taylor & Francis website
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Wiley Read & Publish 2020-2022
Reduced reading fee
No publishing fee for corresponding authors from participating organisations when publishing Open Access. Within the agreement an amount for publication fees is prepaid. Wiley has different publishing fees for different journals and it is therefore not possible to precede exactly how many publications the agreement will finance.
CC license
CC BY, CC BY-NC or CC-BY-NC-ND.
Read more about licenses on Wiley’s website.
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Frontiers 2019-2020
Reduced publishing fee
10% APC discount.
CC license
CC-BY (see 1.7 in license agreement)
Read more about licenses on Frontiers’ website.