As a researcher at Umeå University, you can publish open access free of charge in many journals. This is possible thanks to the library's agreements with several publishers and agreements via research funders. On this page, you can read more about the different agreements. You can also search for specific journals to see if they are included in one of the agreements.
Search for a journal to see if it is included in the library's open access publishing agreements.
It is important that you always check the terms and instructions of the agreement that applies to the journal you wish to publish in. Below are the library's agreements and the agreements via the research funders.
Agreements via the library
ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)
ACS (American Chemical Society)
AIP (American Institute of Physics)
APS (American Physical Society)
IOP (Institute of Physics)
Nature and Nature Research journals
PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
RSC (Royal Society of Chemistry)
RSM (Royal Society of Medicine) hybrid journals
RSM (Royal Society of Medicine) open access journals
Springer Compact (Springer Nature hybrid journals)
Agreements via research funders
PLOS (Public Library of Science)
Please contact the library if you have questions about our publishing agreements or other open access and publishing issues. Choose the subject area "Publishing, theses and research data" in our contact form.