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 an acceptance date in 2024 or 2025 (“acceptance date” during 2024-2025).
Journals and publication types
The agreement covers all article types.
Choice of licence
Articles 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;
- state a correct affiliation to Umeå University in the manuscript;
- state Umeå University as your affiliation in the publisher submission system; and
- use your University email ending with @umu.se.
Contact the relevant journal editorial team if you have questions about your ability to publish under the agreement.
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:
