Open Access in Bibsam Agreements
Publishing open access is free of charge or discounted in a large number of journals.
Via the Bibsam agreements, the publishing costs are centrally covered by the institutions that participate in the agreements. Not all institutions participate in all agreements and some institutions have signed additional open access publishing agreements. The range of journals without, or discounted, article processing charges (APCs) for authors may therefore vary between different institutions.
Corresponding author and affiliation
To be eligible to publish open access under a Bibsam agreement, the corresponding author must be affiliated with a participating institution. This applies to all agreements, regardless of publisher or journal.
As a corresponding author this means that:
- You must be affiliated with a participating institution.
- The article is based on research conducted at the affiliated institution.
- Your affiliation must be stated in the manuscript as well as the published article.
- Since publishers often identifies eligible articles from your email domain name, make sure to always use your institutional email address when submitting a manuscript.
Corresponding author
is the person who handles the manuscript and communication with the publisher during the publication process.
Publisher agreements
- AIP Publishing
- American Chemical Society ACS)
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
- BMJ Publishing
- Brill
- Bristol University Press
- Cambridge University Press
- Company of Biologists, The
- Copernicus Publications
- De Gruyter
- eLife
- Elsevier
- Emerald
- Frontiers
- IOP Publishing
- IOS Press
- IWA Publishing
- JMIR Publications
- John Benjamins Publishing
- Karger
- Mark Allen Healthcare
- MDPI
- Microbiology Society
- MJS Publishing
- Nature Research Journals
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- PLOS
- Portland Press
- Royal Society, The
- Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
- SAGE
- SPIE
- Springer Nature Fully OA Journals
- Springer Nature Hybrid Journals
- Taylor & Francis
- Wiley
In most agreements open access publishing is restricted to review and original research articles. Other article types e.g. letters, editorials, book reviews etc. are normally not included the agreements. Additional charges, such as page or color charges are not covered by the agreements.