Researchers and students at Chalmers have the opportunity to publish open access at no cost in a large number of journals through agreements the library has with publishers. In some cases, discounted publication fees are also available. In addition, several research funders make it possible to publish free of charge with specific open access publishers and platforms.
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Find journal in SciFree (Öppnas i ny flik)The library has agreements with several publishers that either enable cost-free open access publishing or provide discounts on publication fees for researchers and students at Chalmers.
The agreements are valid for a negotiated period, and articles must be accepted within this timeframe. Some agreements operate on a “first come, first served” basis. Publishers identify potential discounts based on the stated affiliation, but some also use email domains or IP addresses.
The corresponding author (the author who submits the article) must be employed at or a student at Chalmers.
The Chalmers affiliation must be correctly stated in the article.
The Chalmers email address should be used when submitting the manuscript.
Unless otherwise specified, these agreements apply to all journals offering open access publishing.
The agreement gives the right to unlimited publishing of open access articles in all journals from ACS.
To make use of the agreement
As a corresponding author, you shall state your affiliation to Chalmers University of Technology and use your email address from Chalmers when you submit an article for publication.
You can find more information here.
Authors affiliated to Chalmers University of Technology can publish open access in 25 hybrid journals as well as in fully open access journals at no extra cost.
To make use of the agreement
As a corresponding author, you shall state your affiliation to Chalmers University of Technology and use your email address from Chalmers when you submit an article for publication.
Länk: https://publishing.aip.org/resources/researchers/open-science/read-and-publish/authors/ med text Instructions for authors
Authors affiliated to Chalmers University of Technology can publish open access in some of APS’s hybrid journals and in fully open access journals at no extra cost.
To make use of the agreement
As a corresponding author, you shall state your affiliation to Chalmers University of Technology and use your email address from Chalmers when you submit an article for publication.
Authors affiliated to Chalmers University of Technology can publish an unlimited number of articles in ACM’s serial publications.
To make use of the agreement
As a corresponding author, you shall state your affiliation to Chalmers University of Technology and use your email address from Chalmers when you submit an article for publication. Authors are automatically identified by the email address domain. CC-BY is the first choice when publishing, but the author can choose CC license options.
Cambridge University Press
Company of Biologists
De Gruyter
Covers journals in the Freedom Collection. The agreement also includes publication in certain Cell Press and The Lancet journals.
Emerald
Free open access publishing in all hybrid and fully open access journals. Proceedings are not included. Learn more in the following presentation on Open access workflow for authors (pdf) (submission process on slides 31-48). A webinar from IEEE on the workflow for authors is also available.
Free open access publishing in most of the publisher’s journals.
IWA Publishing
Free open access publishing in Nature and Nature Research Journals, as well as Nature Protocols and Nature Reviews titles.
Free open access publishing in all of the publisher’s journals.
Free open access publishing in all of the publisher’s journals.
SAGE
Covers all fully open access journals and most hybrid journals.
Taylor and Francis
Wiley
The Swedish Research Council, Forte, Formas, and Vinnova finance open access publishing with the publishers below.
Copernicus
eLife
Frontiers
JMIR
MJS
PLOS
As a researcher at Chalmers, you can publish free of charge in Open Research Europe (ORE), regardless of who funds your research. The platform is run by the European Commission together with research funders in eleven European countries, including the Swedish Research Council, Forte and Formas. State Chalmers University of Technology as your affiliation when you submit.
Articles are published first and then openly peer reviewed. The platform accepts work in all subject areas.
Read more about publishing in ORE
Trans Tech Publications
50% discount on open access publishing in all journals. The author covers the remaining cost; no central funding is available.