Publishing agreements

The agreement applies to 2022-2026 and includes publication in journals and conference proceedings series from the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).

Good to know:

• Authors are automatically identified using the domain at the email address. CC-BY is the first choice when publishing, but the author has the opportunity to choose for herself.
  
  

List of ACM publications eligible for open access publishing

Information from ACM about the publishing process

The agreement applies to 2022 and includes publishing in both hybrid journals and open access journals from BMJ.

Good to know:

• Articles are usually published under a CC-BY license, with a few exceptions where CC-BY-NC occur.
  
  

BMJ's list of journals

Information from BMJ about the publishing process

The agreement applies to 2024 and covers just over 300 journals.

Good to know:

• The agreement covers all articles of the type Research or Review Articles. The agreement also includes a 20% discount on the costs of publishing books with open access.
• Articles are published under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY) license.
  
  

Information from Brill about the publishing process

The agreement applies to 2022-2024 and includes publication in approximately 400 hybrid journals and open access journals from Cambridge University Press Full collection.

Good to know:

• The publisher offers several CC-BY licenses: CC-BY, CC-BY-NC, CC-BY-NC-SA and CC-BY-NC-ND. CC-BY will be set as standard in the publisher's publishing process.
• Unlimited publication applies to the following article types: research articles, review articles, rapid communications, brief reports and case reports.
  
  

See which journals are covered by the agreement
Enter Sweden and then select Jönköping University.

Information from Cambridge University Press about the publishing process

Copernicus is a German open access publisher that publishes journals primarily in geosciences but also in technology, life sciences, computer science and the humanities. The agreement with Copernicus applies from 2024-01-01 and covers nearly 40 fully open access journals. Articles are published under a CC-BY license. All article types are covered by the agreement.

Important to know:

• The corresponding author must be affiliated with Jönköping University (JU) or any other university that is part of the Bibsam consortium and should state this as the address in the article.

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The research funders The Swedish Research Council, Forte, Formas and Vinnova have decided to jointly finance publication by publishers that only publish fully open access journals. PLOS is covered by this decision, which means that all researchers connected to one of the Bibsam consortium's participating organizations can publish in all of the publisher's journals, regardless of article type and without a fee for authors or organizations.

eLife is a journal that publishes articles in the life sciences External link, opens in new window.. The agreement is valid from 2024 and all articles are published with a CC-BY license.

Important to know:

• eLife only peer-reviews articles made available as preprints. Preprints that have undergone peer review can, if the authors so wish, then be published as traditional journal articles (Version of Record) in the journal.
• The agreement covers the article types Research Articles, Short Reports, Research Advances and Tools and Resources Articles, i.e. article types that would otherwise incur a publication fee.
• eLife checks whether any of the corresponding authors are based in Sweden and then identifies articles within the agreement by matching the stated affiliation against a list of the Bibsam cosurtium participating organizations including ROR IDs (Research Organization Registry External link, opens in new window.).
  

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For questions about publishing and workflow within the agreement: editorial@elifesciences.org

The research funders The Swedish Research Council, Forte, Formas and Vinnova have decided to jointly finance publication by publishers that only publish fully open access journals. eLife is covered by this decision, which means that all researchers connected to one of the Bibsam consortium's participating organizations can publish in the journal without a fee for author or organization.

The agreement applies to 2024-2027 and covers over 2,000 journals.

Good to know:

• CC-BY license (or other open license based on the author's wishes)
  

Find Elsevier journals covered by the agreement

Information from Elsevier about the publishing process

The agreement applies to 2021-2024 and covers over 300 journals.

Good to know:

• Unlimited open access publication in all Emeralds journals, including full open access journals.
  
• Article are published with a CC-BY 4.0 license.
  
  

Search for Emerald journals covered by the agreement

Information from Emerald about the publishing process

The agreement is valid during 2024 and covers 230 pure open access journals. All articles are published under a CC-BY license.

Important to know:

• The corresponding author must be affiliated with Jönköping University (JU) and indicate this as the address in the article and use a JU e-mail address.
• If an article has more than one corresponding author, it is the "submitting corresponding author's" affiliation that determines whether the article is to be published within the agreement, i.e. the one of the authors who submits the manuscript, fills in all the information in the publisher's submission system and manages the communication with the publisher.
  

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The research funders The Swedish Research Council, Forte, Formas and Vinnova have decided to jointly finance publication by publishers that only publish fully open access journals. Frontiers is covered by this decision, which means that all researchers connected to one of the Bibsam consortium's participating organizations can publish in all of the publisher's journals, regardless of article type and without a fee for author or organization.

The agreement applies to 2021–2024 and includes unlimited publication of open access articles in all hybrid and full open access journals from the publisher.

Good to know:

• The agreement covers all article types.
• Articles are published under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY) license.

Articles are published with open access:

• when the submitting author's e-mail address is included in the list of institutions' domain names, or
• if the IP address of the submitting author is part of the collective IP range of participating organisations, or
• if the author has been identified by ORCID as an affiliate author.
  
  

List of journals covered by the agreement

JMIR Publications (Journal of Medical Internet Research) publishes journals related to the use of technology in healthcare. The publisher's currently 35 journals cover topics such as e-health, telemedicine and medical informatics. Some of the journals do not charge a publication fee at all. The agreement is valid from 2024 and all articles are published with a CC-BY license.

Important to know:

• Based on the corresponding author's affiliation and email address, JMIR Publications identifies which articles are eligible for publication within the agreement.
• The agreement covers all article types.

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For questions about publishing and workflow within the agreement: partnerships@jmir.org

The research funders The Swedish Research Council, Forte, Formas and Vinnova have decided to jointly finance publication by publishers that only publish fully open access journals. JMIR Publications is covered by this decision, which means that all researchers connected to one of the Bibsam consortium's participating organizations can publish in all of the publisher's journals, regardless of article type and without a fee for author or organization.

The agreement applies to 2022-2024 and covers approximately 30 journals.

Good to know:

Specify that the article should be published open access when it is sent to the publisher. When the article is accepted, the publisher sends the link to a payment page.

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• Once logged in, you can complete by clicking Next and proceed to the confirmation.
  
  

Information from Mark Allen Healthcare about the publishing process

MJS Publishing (formerly Medical Journals Sweden) is a Swedish publisher that only publishes completely openly accessible journals in the field of medicine. The agreement with MJS Publishing is a publishing agreement and involves paid publication in all of the publisher's magazines. The agreement expires in 2024 and they currently publish nine pure open access journals. All articles are published under the CC-BY license.

Important to know:

• Corresponding authors indicate when submitting manuscripts that they belong to Jönköping University. To ensure that the article in question is published within the agreement, the author must use the e-mail address associated with Jönköping University.
  

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The research financiers The Swedish Research Council, Forte, Formas and Vinnova have decided to jointly finance publication by publishers that only publish fully open access journals. MJS is covered by this decision, which means that all researchers connected to one of the Bibsam consortium's participating organizations can publish in all of the publisher's journals, regardless of article type and without a fee for authors or organizations.

The agreement applies to 2022-2024 and includes publication in around 376 hybrid journals and around 111 fully open access journals.

Good to know:

• The agreement covers all peer reviewed research articles.
• OUP journals generally offer three Creative Commons licenses: CC BY, CC BY-NC and CC BY -NC-ND.
  
  

Information from Oxford University Press about the publishing process

The agreement with PLOS (Public Library of Science) applies to 2024-2025 and covers 230 pure open access journals. All articles are published under a CC-BY 4.0 license.

Important to know:

• The corresponding author must be affiliated with Jönköping University (JU) and indicate this as the address in the article and use a JU e-mail address.
• See video presentation of how to submit articles and take part in the agreement External link, opens in new window. [06:20]

Presentation of all PLOS journals External link, opens in new window.

The research funders The Swedish Research Council, Forte, Formas and Vinnova have decided to jointly finance publication by publishers that only publish fully open access journals. PLOS is covered by this decision, which means that all researchers connected to one of the Bibsam consortium's participating organizations can publish in all of the publisher's journals, regardless of article type and without a fee for authors or organizations.

The agreement applies to 2024-2027 and includes approximately 970 hybrid journals and 200 open access journals.

Good to know:

• When an article has been accepted for publication, the author receives an email informing that the article can be published with open access through the agreement with Bibsam. The author is asked to go to SOAP (SAGE Open Access Portal).
• In SOAP, open access publishing is the default option, but the author can opt out.
• If the author chooses to publish with open access, CC BY will be the only licensing option. The author can contact the publisher directly if he prefers another type of license.
• Authors who are members of the consortium will automatically receive a 20% discount on the APC fee when publishing in open access journals.
• The articles are published with the license CC BY-NC if the author does not contact the publisher directly and ask for another license.

List of SAGE journals External link, opens in new window.

The agreement with Springer Nature apply to 2022-2024 and includes over 2,070 hybrid journals (Open Choice) and 462 fully open access journals (Springer Nature Fully OA).

Good to know about hybrid journals:

• Article types included are Original Paper, Review Paper, Brief Communication and Continuing Education.
• All articles are published with a CC-BY license.

Imprint labels included in Springer Nature's hybrid journals:

• Adis
• Nature Academic Journals
• Palgrave Macmillan
• Springer Nature
  
  

Imprint labels included in Springer Nature Fully OA:

• BioMed Central (BMC)
• Springer Open Journals
• Springer Nature
• NatureResearch
• Palgrave Macmillan
  
  

Lists of Springer's "Fully OA journals" and "Hybrid journals"

Springer Nature's information about the publishing process

The agreement applies to 2022-2024 and includes publication in both hybrid journals and fully open access journals.

Good to know:

• Corresponding authors in participating organisations can publish themselves with immediate open access in all so-called "Open Select journals", ie. the publisher's more than 2,200 hybrid journals. (Including journals that apply a higher publication fee, so-called "Premium APC Rate", than the standard fee.)
• Corresponding authors in participating organisations can, within the agreement, publish in over 230 fully open access journals ("Open journals").
• Research articles and review articles are included in the agreement. These are usually categorized as "Article", "Research Article", "Review" or "Review Article", but depending on the journal and subject area, other names may occur. Article types such as Editorials, Announcements and Book Reviews are not included.
• Taylor & Francis journals generally offer two Creative Commons licenses: CC-BY and CC-BY-NC-ND.
  
  

Search among Taylor & Francis hybrid and fully open access journals included in the agreement:

Open Select journals External link, opens in new window.
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Information from Taylor & Francis about the publishing process

The agreement applies to 2022–2024 and covers publication in approximately 1,330 hybrid journals ("Wiley's hybrid [subscription-based] journals") and close to 570 fully open access journals, including journals from the publisher Hindawi ("Wiley's and Hindawi's fully gold open access journals").

Good to know:

• All articles that belong to the overall categories of research article ("Original article", "Primary research article") or "Review article" are included in the agreement.
• All articles are published with a CC-BY license (or other open license based on the author's wishes).
  
  

Wiley's journal lists and information about the publishing process