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Portland Press/Biochemical Society

Umeå University researchers can publish open access at no cost in journals from Biochemical Society published by Portland Press. 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 submitted to the publisher in 2025 or 2026 (“submission date” in 2025–2026).

Journals and article types

The agreement applies to open access publishing in all hybrid and open access journals from Portland Press.

All article types that require a publishing fee are covered by the agreement.

See all journals included in this agreement

Research journals

Review journals

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
  • 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

Read more about the publishing process on the Portland Press website:
R&P workflow guide for authors and librarians (PDF)

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

Contact the library if you have any questions. Select "Publishing, theses and research data" in the contact form.

Contact the library

Latest update: 2026-01-01

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Open access publishing agreements

Publish open access free of charge thanks to publishing agreements.

Tidskrift med ett öppet hänglås.

Search journals with publishing agreements

Search for a journal to see if it is included in the library's open access publishing agreements.

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Publish open access

You are expected to publish your research results open access.