Cogitatio Press

Umeå University researchers can publish open access at no cost in Cogitatio Press journals. Read more about the terms of our agreement with the publisher for 2026 and what it means for you here.

This is included in the agreement

The open access publishing fee (APC, article processing charge) has been pre-paid through an agreement between the Library and the publisher. The agreement applies when the corresponding author (i.e., the person communicating with the publisher and journal) is affiliated with Umeå University.

The agreement does not cover additional charges, such as page fees or colour illustration fees.

The agreement applies to articles accepted by the publisher in 2025 or 2026 (“acceptance date” in 2025–2026).

Journals and article types

The agreement applies to open access publishing in all open access journals from Cogitatio Press.

Article types covered by the agreement include "article", "book review", "commentary", "editorial", "review" and "short note".

See all journals included in this agreement

Choice of licence

Articles covered by the agreement are published with a CC BY licence.

Learn more about Creative Commons licences for researchers (Swedish National Library)

What you need to do

To use the agreement, you must:

be the corresponding author;
be the submitting author;
state a correct affiliation to Umeå University in the manuscript; and
use your university email ending with @umu.se.

Contact the Library for guidance if you do not have an Umeå University email address.

Good to know about the publishing process

This is how publication works:

The manuscript must be submitted via the journal’s online submission system.
You must use the template file provided by Cogitatio Press when preparing a manuscript.
Your manuscript will undergo a double-blind peer-review process.
The article will be made available online ahead of print.

Read more about the publishing process on the journals' websites:
Cogitatio Press – Journals