Emerald

Umeå University researchers can publish open access at no cost in Emerald 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 hybrid and open access journals from Emerald.

The agreement applies to the article type “research articles”.

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;
state a correct affiliation to Umeå University in the manuscript; and
state Umeå University as your primary affiliation in the publisher submission system.

For the publisher to identify you as affiliated to Umeå University, you should use your university email address ending in @umu.se.

Good to know about the publishing process

Choose “Yes, I want to publish my article as Open Access” in the ScholarOne publishing system when you submit your manuscript.

Within 30 days of receiving the acceptance email, you will receive a follow-up email where you are asked to approve that your article is published under a CC BY licence. Complete and sign the document and send it to Emerald by email.

Read more about the publishing process on the Emerald website:
Open access publishing agreements