Open Access Publish and Read Agreements

• The corresponding author must be affiliated with OsloMet to receive funding. Please list your OsloMet email when submitting the article.
• The article must be freely available as of the time of publication.
• 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 and The Research Council of Norway recommend the use of the license CC BY 4.0. Read more about The Research Council of Norway's recommendations here (forskningsradet.no). General info about CC Licenses (creativecommons.org).

Find the journal listing in the Norwegian Register for Scientific Journals, Series and Publishers (hkdir.no). The section "Indexing" provides relevant information:

The journal is indexed as «Included in publishing agreement»:

Find the section "Publiseringsavtale" to see if OsloMet is listed among the Institutions that adhere to the agreement.

• "Consortium agreement with no cost on APC": This means that the APC is covered in full by the agreement. Go to OsloMet’s list of Open Access agreements. Information about terms and author’s workflows are listed under the individual publisher.   

• "Consortium agreement with discount on APC": This means that only an APC discount is provided. Students and faculty may apply for additional funding from OsloMet’s Publication Fund to cover the remaining APC amount. Terms and conditions for funding may apply. Proceed to OsloMet’s Publication Fund to find more information and an application form.

The journal is indexed as "Not included in publishing agreement":

If the journal is indexed in DOAJ and has a minimum of 1 publication point, it qualifies for funding form OsloMet's Publication Fund.

• Proceed to the OsloMet’s Publication Fund page to find the application form. 

The agreement provides unlimited open access publishing in the majority of ACM’s journals and Conference Proceedings. Journals that are not published by ACM (such as IEEE) are not included in the publishing agreement. 

Authors are asked to provide their OsloMet affiliated email, as authentication is based on email domain.

• Title List for publishing - Titles published by ACM (dl.acm.org).
• Title List for publishing - Titles co-published by ACM and other publishers (libraries.acm.org).
• Workflow for authors (openscience.no).
• Contract period: 2025.

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 (cambridge.org). Fill in "Norway" and find OsloMet in the list of institutions to see all eligible titles.
• Workflow for authors (canva.com).
• Further details about the agreement (cambridge.org).
• List of article types included in the agreement (cambridge.org).
• Contract period: 2025.

The agreement provides open access publishing in Elsevier’s hybrid journals. Se the title list below to find journals included in the agreement. The option to publish open access via the agreement, is listed in the publisher's submission portal.

A 15 % discount is provided for publishing in gold journals (fully open access). For further APC funding in Elsevier’s gold journals, faculty are referred to OsloMet's Publication Fund.

See the title list below for more information about the open access status for the individual journals.

By extension, the agreement provides read access to journals in the ScienceDirect Freedom Collection.

• Title list (Excel, view.officeapps.live.com). Search for the title in column C. Column G provides information about the journal’s open access model. 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.
• Find the right journal for your research (journalfinder.elsevier.com).
• Author workflow and article types included in the agreement (elsevier.som).
• Contract period: 2025-2027.

The agreement provides a 10 percent discount on APCs. The Author Accepted Manuscript can be deposited to OsloMet’s Institutional repository (oda.oslomet.no) as of the official publication date. For publishing in pure OA (Gold) journals, faculty may apply for funding from OsloMet's Publication Fund.

• Emerald Open access policy (emeraldgrouppublishing.com).
• Norwegian information page from Sikt (openscience.no).
• Contract period: 2025–2027.

The agreement provides a 10 percent discount on Article Processing Charges (APCs). As Frontiers’ journals are all published fully open access, faculty may apply for further funding from OsloMet's Publication Fund.

Norwegian information page from Sikt (openscience.no).

Contract period: 2025.

The agreement with Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) provides a 25 percent discount on Article Processing Charges (APCs). Faculty may apply for additional funding from OsloMet's Publication Fund.

Norwegian information page from Sikt (opencience.no).

Contract period: 2025.

The agreement provides open access publishing in a majority of the publisher’s hybrid journals (see the title list below). The option to publish open access through the agreement, is listed in the publisher's submission portal.

A 20 percent discount is provided for publishing in Gold (fully open access) journals. For publishing in Gold Journals, faculty may apply for additional funding from OsloMet's Publication Fund.

• Title List for Publishing, 2025 (Excel). Titles listed as "Hybrid" or "Subscribe to Open" in column F are covered by the agreement.

• More information about the agreement (uk.sagepub.com).

• Workflow for authors (PowerPoint, openscience.no).
• Sage information page (sagepub.com).

• Contract period: 2025-2026.

The agreement provides open access publishing in SpringerNature’s hybrid journals (see the title list below). The option to publish open access through the agreement, is listed in the publisher's submission portal.

A 10 percent 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.

• Title List for publishing (Excel). Titles listed as "Hybrid" in column E are included in the agreement.

• General information about the agreement and the included article types (springernature.com).

• Workflow for authors (resource-cms.springernature.com).

• Contract period: 2025-2027.

The agreement provides open access publishing in the publisher’s hybrid journals (see title list below). The option to publish open access via the agreement, is listed in the publisher's submission portal.

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.

A 10 percent discount is provided for publishing in gold journals (fully open access). For further APC funding in Elsevier’s gold journals, faculty are referred to OsloMet's Publication Fund.

• Title list for publishing (Excel). For journals listed as "Open select", APC is covered by the agreement (within the article quota). 

• See the publisher's website for details and author's workflow (tandfonline.com).

• Contract period: 2025.

As of February 4, 2025, Sikt reports that they were unable to come to an agreement with Wiley for a new contract for 2025 (openscience.no). 

For publishing in Wiley's hybrid journals (subscription journals that allow for open access publishing for a fee), faculty are referred to OsloMet's rights retention policy for scholarly articles. The policy allows faculty and students to upload the latest version of the peer-reviewed, accepted manuscript to OsloMet's institutional repository, thereby meeting the requirements for open access publishing.

For publishing in Gold journals (fully open access journals), faculty may apply for funding from OsloMet's Publication Fund.

Please refer to our FAQ page for Open Access Publishing to find funding information for a specific journal.