Publish Open Access

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. Additionally, several research funders enable cost-free publication with specific open access publishers.

Library publishing agreements

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.

Conditions for coverage under the agreements

• The corresponding author 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.

Agreements with prepaid publishing fees

Unless otherwise specified, these agreements apply to all journals offering open access publishing.

American Chemical Society (ACS)

You can find more information here.

American Institute of Physics (AIP)

Free open access publishing in 25 hybrid journals.

American Physical Society (APS)

Free open access publishing in the publisher’s hybrid journals.

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

Cambridge University Press

Company of Biologists

De Gruyter

Elsevier

Covers journals in the Freedom Collection. The agreement also includes publication in certain Cell Press and The Lancet journals.

Emerald

IEEE

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.

Institute of Physics (IOP)

Free open access publishing in most of the publisher’s journals.

Nature

Free open access publishing in Nature and Nature Research Journals, as well as Nature Protocols and Nature Reviews titles.

Oxford University Press (OUP)

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)

SAGE

SPIE

Information about open access at SPIE.

Springer Nature

Covers all fully open access journals and most hybrid journals.

Taylor and Francis

Wiley

Research funders cover publication costs

The Swedish Research Council, Forte, Formas, and Vinnova finance open access publishing with the publishers below. More information can be found here.

• Copernicus
• eLife
• Frontiers
• JMIR
• MJS
• PLOS

Publishers and journals offering discounts on publication fees

• Trans Tech Publications

50% discount on open access publishing in all journals. The author covers the remaining cost; no central funding is available.