This is included in the agreement
During 2024 and 2025, the four research funders, the Swedish Research Council, Forte, Formas, and Vinnova, have decided to jointly fund publishing with publishers who only publish fully open access journals. This means that researchers at Umeå University can publish articles in the publishers' journals without having to pay a publishing fee (APC, article processing charge). The same conditions apply to all researchers linked to an organisation in the Bibsam consortium.
List of participating organisations in the Bibsam consortium
The agreement applies to articles with a submitted date after April 1, 2024.
Journals and publication types
The agreement applies to the article types "research articles", "short reports", "research advances" and "tools and resources articles", i.e. article types that would otherwise involve a publication fee.
Choice of licence
Article covered by the agreement will be published with a CC BY licence.
What you need to do
To be covered by the agreement, you must:
- be the corresponding author; and
state a correct affiliation to Umeå University in the manuscript.
Good to know about the publishing process
Please be aware that eLife exclusively peer-reviews articles that are accessible as preprints. If a preprint has successfully undergone peer review, the authors have the option to subsequently publish it as a conventional journal article (referred to as the ‘Version of Record’) in the eLife journal. See the publisher's description of its review and publication process:
Publishing and peer review at eLife
Contact the publisher if you have further questions about the publishing process:
Contact (eLife)
Always check the terms and conditions
It is crucial that you review the terms and conditions on the website of both the publisher and the journal in which you choose to publish.
Contact the library
Do you have a question about the open access publishing agreements? Contact the library for help. Select "Publishing, theses and research data" in the contact form:
