Open Access Publish and Read Agreements
The Publish-and-Read agreements primarily apply to hybrid (subscription) journals. Some of the agreements include gold (fully Open Access) journals as well.
The terms and title lists associated with the individual agreements are listed under each publisher below. For publishing in gold journals not covered by an agreement, faculty may apply for funding from OsloMet's Publication Fund.
By extension, the agreements provide OsloMet’s students and faculty read access to the publisher’s journals.
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Important information about the agreements
- The amount that is covered varies from agreement to agreement. Some agreements provide discounts on publishing charges (APCs), while others provide APC coverage in full.
Funding is only provided if the article is accepted during the contractual period. Please be advised that the agreement with Taylor & Francis is restricted by a yearly article quota.
The terms and title lists are listed under each publisher below. If a publisher is not listed, there is no active agreement in place. - Some publishers choose to exclude certain journals from their publishing agreements. This may explain why a specific journal is missing from the title lists listed below. Information about excluded titles (Norwegian page, openscience.no).
- The corresponding author must be affiliated with OsloMet to receive funding. Please list your OsloMet email when submitting the article, as authentication is based on email domain.
- Additional costs for page fees, tables and illustrations, colors, copy editing etc. are not covered by the agreements.
- The option for APC funding via an active agreement is done in the publisher's submission portal when choosing Open Access. This action triggers an automatic message to the University Library at OsloMet, with a message to approve or decline the application for funding. The applications are reviewed on a rolling basis by the University Library.
- Articles published with a CC license ensures that the author retains the copyright. OsloMet, Plan S and The Research Council of Norway all recommend the use of the license CC BY.
- The amount that is covered varies from agreement to agreement. Some agreements provide discounts on publishing charges (APCs), while others provide APC coverage in full.
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ACM Digital Library (ACM)
The agreement provides unlimited Open Access publishing in the majority of ACM’s journals and Conference Proceedings, as well as free reading access to ACM Digital Library.
Journals that are not published by ACM (such as IEEE) are not included in the publishing agreement. However, reading access is granted for these titles as well.
Authors are asked to provide their OsloMet affiliated email, as authentication is based on email domain.
- Title List for OA publishing (acm.org). The list is regularly updated by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
- ACM Full-Text Collection: Extensive list that includes titles with reading access (openscience.no). The list is regularly updated by ACM.
- Workflow for authors: Example of the ACM Open Access Reporting Dashboard in the 2. paragraph (openscience.no).
- Licenses: Articles are to be published with a CC-license. ACM offers the license CC BY, which is the option recommended by OsloMet, Plan S and The Research Council of Norway. About the licenses (creativecommons.org).
- Contract period: 2024.
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Cambridge University Press
The agreement allows for unlimited article publishing (accepted within the contract period) in the publisher’s hybrid and gold journals. The terms include read access to the Cambridge University Press Full Collection.
- Title List for Publishing (Excel, view.officeapps.live.com). The values in column B refer to the publishing options for the individual journal. Titles with the corresponding value "par" are included in the publishing agreement. Journals listed as “read_only” are not covered by the agreement.
- Workflow for authors (PowerPoint, openscience.no).
- Licenses: Articles are published with a CC-license, and publishing in a Cambridge journal you may choose to use the following CC-licenses CC BY, CC BY-NC-ND, CC-BY-NC-ND and CC-BY-NC-SA. See the publisher's website for more information about the licenses (cambridge.org). OsloMet, Plan S and The Research Council of Norway all recommend the use of license CC BY. About the licenses (creativecommons.org).
- Contract period: 2024.
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Elsevier
The agreement provides unlimited Open Access publishing in Elsevier’s hybrid journals. A 15 % discount is provided for publishing in gold (fully Open Access) journals. See the title list below for more information about the Open Access status for the individual journals.
For further APC funding in Elsevier’s gold journals, faculty are referred to OsloMet's Publication Fund.
By extension, the agreement provides read access to journals in the ScienceDirect Freedom Collection.
- Title list (Excel, view.officeapps.live.com). The listed titles are included in the agreement. Search for the title in column C. Column G provides information about the journal’s Open Access model, which is either hybrid or gold. For journals listed as “hybrid”, the APC is covered by the agreement. For journals listed as «gold», faculty may apply for funding from OsloMet's Publication Fund.
- Author workflow for Open Access publishing (PowerPoint, openscience.no).
- Articles are published with a CC license, with the option to choose either CC BY or CC BY-NC-ND. Information about the licensing options (elsevier.com). OsloMet, Plan S, and The Research Council of Norway all recommend the use of the license CC BY. About the licenses (creativecommons.org).
- Contract period: 2024.
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Emerald
The agreement with Emerald provides a 10 % discount on APCs. The Author Accepted Manuscript can be deposited to OsloMet’s Institutional repository (oda.oslomet.no) and made public as of the official publication date. For publishing in pure OA (Gold) journals, faculty may refer to OsloMet's Publication Fund.
- Emerald Open access policy (emeraldgrouppublishing.com).
- Norwegian information page from Sikt (openscience.no).
- Contract period: 2023–2025.
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Frontiers
The agreement provides a 10 % discount on Article Processing Charges (APCs). As Frontiers’ journals are all published fully Open Access, faculty may apply for further funding from the OsloMet's Publication Fund.
Norwegian information page from Sikt (openscience.no).
Contract period: 2024.
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Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
The agreement provides a 20 % discount on Article Processing Charges (APCs). As MDPI’ journals are all published fully Open Access, faculty may apply for further funding from the OsloMet's Publication Fund.
Norwegian information page from Sikt (openscience.no).
Contract period: 2024.
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Oxford University Press
The Publish-and-Read agreement between OsloMet and Oxford has not been renewed for 2024.
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Sage
The agreement provides Open Access publishing in a majority of the publisher’s hybrid journals. A 20 % discount is provided for publishing in Gold (fully Open Access) journals.
Faculty may apply for additional funding from OsloMet's Publication Fund, for publishing in Gold journals.
The agreement provides students and faculty read access to most Sage journals.
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Title List for Publishing (Excel, openscience.no). The values in column B refer to the publishing options for the individual journal. Titles with the corresponding value "par" are included in the publishing agreement. Journals listed as “read_only” are not covered by the agreement. Column G provides information about the journal’s Open Access model, which is either hybrid or gold.
For journals listed as “hybrid”, the APC is covered by the agreement. For journals listed as «gold», faculty may apply for funding from OsloMet's Publication Fund. - Workflow for authors (PowerPoint, openscience.no).
- Sage information page (sagepub.com).
- Licenses: Most articles are published with a CC BY license, which is the license recommended by OsloMet, Plan S and The Research Council of Norway. However, some journals require a more restrictive type of license. About the licenses (creativecommons.org).
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Contract period: 2024.
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Springer
The agreement provides Open Access publishing in SpringerNature’s hybrid journals (see the title list below).
A 10 % discount is provided for publishing in Gold (fully Open Access) journals published by Springer and BMC. (Journals by Nature and Palgrave are not included.) For publishing in Springer’s gold journals, faculty may apply for funding from OsloMet's Publication Fund.
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Title List for Publishing (Excel, view.officeapps.live.com). All journals listed are covered by the agreement - even the ones listed as "Fully OA".
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Information on the publisher's website (springernature.com).
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Articles are published with a CC license, with the option to choose either CC BY or CC BY-NC licenses. See the publisher's website for more information about the licenses (springernature.com). OsloMet, Plan S, and The Research Council of Norway all recommend the use of the license CC BY. About the licenses (creativecommons.org).
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Contract period: 2024.
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Taylor & Francis
The agreement provides Open Access publishing in the publisher’s hybrid journals. The publisher has set an annual publishing quota as a condition of the agreement. This quota is distributed among the institutions that adhere to the agreement.
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Title List for publishing (Excel). If the journal is listed in the title list, APC is covered via the agreement (within the article quota). For publishing in gold journals, faculty may apply for funding from OsloMet's Publication Fund.
- Workflow for authors (PDF, openscience.no).
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Articles are published with a CC license, with the option to choose either CC BY, CC BY-NC, or CC BY-NC-ND. See the publisher's website for more information about the licenses (taylorandfrancis.com). OsloMet, Plan S, and The Research Council of Norway all recommend the use of the license CC BY. About the licenses (creativecommons.org).
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Contract period: 2024.
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Wiley
The agreement provides Open Access publishing in the publisher’s hybrid journals. A 15 % discount is provided for publishing in Gold (fully Open Access) journals.
Faculty may apply for additional funding from OsloMet's Publication Fund for publishing in Gold journals.
- Title List - Hybrid Journals (Excel, view.officeapps.live.com).
- Title List - Gold Journals (authorservices.wiley.com). Select the option "My institution or funder has an agreement with Wiley and may pay the Article Publication Charge" to receive the discount.
- Overview of article types covered by the agreement (Excel, view.officeapps.live.com). Articles listed as "Y" in column C are covered.
- Workflow for authors (authorservices.wiley.com).
- Articles are published with a CC license, with the option to choose either CC BY, CC BY-NC, or CC BY-NC-ND. See the publisher’s website for more information about the licenses (authorservices.wiley.com). OsloMet, Plan S, and The Research Council of Norway all recommend the use of the license CC BY. About the licenses (creativecommons.org).
- Contract period: 2024.