Publish Open Access

As a BTH researcher, you can publish open access free of charge through the Bibsam agreements.
On this page, you’ll find more information about the agreements, the different publishing models, and how to discover journals where the publishing fee is already covered.

Prepaid publication fees

The National Library of Sweden is working towards a transition to open access publishing. Through the national Bibsam agreements, BTH has already covered article processing charges (APCs) or secured discounted fees in a wide range of scholarly journals.

Conditions for publication

In order to publish free of charge under these agreements, the corresponding author must be affiliated with BTH and the article must be based on research conducted at the university. This affiliation must be clearly stated in the manuscript and in the published article and the author should always use their BTH e-mail address when submitting the manuscript.

Regardless of which publication method the researcher chooses - green, gold or hybrid - the research must be peer-reviewed. The Royal Library has produced an overview of the different Creative Commons licenses suitable for researchers and a guide to the different types of open access.

Scifree - See which journals are covered

We provide a search tool that makes it easy to check which journals are covered by the agreements. Search in Scifree to get an overview of the journals where the publication fee has already been paid.

Publish Open Access - publisher agreements

As a participating organization in the national Bibsam agreements, BTH has already covered the article processing charges (APCs) or secured discounts on author fees in the following publisher agreements:

Publication fee

No publication fee for corresponding authors from participating organizations for open access publication.

CC license

CC-BY

Contract period

2022-2026

More information on

Publication fee

No publication fee for corresponding authors from participating organizations for open access publication.

CC license

CC-BY

Contract period

2025-2027

More information on Cambridge Core

Publication fee

No publication fee for corresponding authors from participating organizations for open access publication.

CC license

CC-BY

Contract period

2024-2027

For more information, please visit

Publication fee

No publication fee for corresponding authors from participating organizations for open access publication.

CC license

CC-BY

Contract period

2025-2027

More information about Emerald

Publication fee

No publication fee for corresponding authors from participating organizations for open access publication.

CC license

CC-BY

Contract period

2024-2027

For more information, please visit

Publication fee

No publication fee for corresponding authors from participating organizations for open access publication.

CC license

CC-BY

Contract period

2025-2028

More information on

Publication fee

No publication fee for corresponding authors from participating organizations for open access publication.

CC license

CC-BY

Contract period

2025-2027

More information on


Publication fee

No publication fee for corresponding authors from participating organizations for open access publication.

CC license

CC-BY by default, but more options available

Contract period

2025

For more information, please visit