Kategoria: OA instructions

Cambridge University Press

Open Access Publishing in CUP Journals

FinELib’s agreement with Cambridge University Press allows authors from participating institutions to publish Open Access in hybrid and Gold OA journals included in CUP’s Full Collection at no additional charge.

The costs of OA publishing are covered by the agreement and paid for from library budgets.

For articles in CUP Research Directions and Cambridge Prisms special collections, a 10% automatic discount on the normal APC (Article Processing Charge) applies.

Articles accepted for publication from 1.1.2024 can be retroactively converted to OA at no cost to the author. CUP will contact eligible authors after the signing of the agreement. If you are eligible but haven’t been contacted by 9/2024, please contact finelib@helsinki.fi.

Am I eligible?

You are eligible if you meet the following criteria:

Please ensure that you supply your affiliation accurately and use your institutional email address when submitting the article.

Need support? Not sure of your eligibility? Email oaqueries@cambridge.org or contact your library/information services.

Is my journal compliant with Plan S?

Use the Journal Checker Tool to see if your preferred journal is compliant with Plan S and with the Academy of Finland's OA policy.

Journal Checker Tool

I am eligible

What do I need to do to publish in CUP's

Full Collection journals?

Research Directions or Cambridge Prisms special collection journals?

CUP's Full Collection

Step 1 – Manuscript Submission

  • Click 'Submit your article' on your chosen journal’s homepage.

  • Complete the submission form in the journal’s Online Peer Review System (OPRS).

  • Ensure you select or supply your affiliation accurately when prompted during the submission process.

Step 2 – Open Access Author Publishing Agreement

  • Upon acceptance, follow email instructions from Cambridge to complete your author publishing agreement.

  • Select the gold open access option to take advantage of your organisation’s transformative agreement.

  • Confirm the Creative Commons license under which your article should be published.

We advise that authors select the CC BY publication license (the default option) whenever available. Also, please note that the Finnish national policy on open access strongly recommends the selection of the CC BY licence, while several funders require it.

Step 3 – APC Transaction Process

  • You will receive an email from Rightslink to invite you to transact your article processing charge (APC). When prompted, select the option to 'seek funding' from your institutional agreement.

  • If your article complies with all relevant eligibility criteria, your APC will be automatically waived. Please note that your library will need to approve your waiver via the Rightslink Institutional Portal.

Step 4 – Article Production

  • Your article will now move through the production process: Copy editing → Type setting → Author proof → Final type setting.

See Publishing an accepted paper → The Production Process.

Step 5 – Article Publication

  • You will be notified upon the publication of your article via an e-mail from Cambridge.

Please note that if your request is not approved (i.e. if you are not eligible), you will need to arrange payment of the APC via another method.

CUP Research Directions and Cambridge Prisms special collections

The 10% APC discount will be applied automatically based on affiliation.

FAQ

Open Library of Humanities

Open Access Publishing in OLH Journals

Open Library of Humanities is a not-for-profit diamond open access publisher funded by membership fees from subscribing libraries.

All authors (yes, all) regardless of their institutional affiliation can publish open access in OLH journals at no cost to themselves.

All articles are published under a CC BY licence. For reasons of third-party copyright and at the request of the author, a more restrictive CC licence can be applied.

OK, what do I need to do?

Just submit to your preferred OLH journal and follow the author guidelines!

Please note that some OLH journals may ask authors to make a voluntary contribution, if they have access to institutional funding or grants.

However, authors and co-authors affiliated with subscribing FinELib Member institutions should not be asked for voluntary contributions. To identify yourself, please enter your institution upon submission.

See the OLH title list (xls).

Need support? Email your library/information services.

Compliance with Funder mandates?

All OLH titles are compliant with PlanS and the Academy of Finland's OA policy. Please use the PlanS Journal Checker Tool to check.

Journal Checker Tool

FAQ

SCOAP3

Open Access Publishing in SCOAP3 Journals

Authors of high-energy physics articles can publish Open Access in SCOAP3 journals at no cost for authors and with a CC BY licence.

The costs of Open Access publishing are covered by a common SCOAP3 fund at CERN, to which libraries, library consortia (including FinELib), research institutions and funding agencies from over 40 countries jointly contribute.

OK, what do I need to do?

SCOAP3 journals are open for any scientists to publish in – with no strings attached and with authors retaining copyright over their own work. Just submit to your preferred journal and proceed as usual!

See the List of SCOAP3 titles (xls).

Further details about the SCOAP3 journals with direct links to their author guidelines: SCOAP3 Journals: Author Guidelines.

Need support? Email your library. For more information, please check SCOAP3's FAQs.

Is my journal compliant with Plan S?

All SCOAP3 journals are compliant with Plan S and with the Academy of Finland's OA policy and are listed in the Journal Checker Tool.

Journal Checker Tool

Nature Research

Open Access Publishing in Nature Research titles

FinELib consortium’s agreement with Springer Nature includes open access publishing in Nature Research hybrid titles during the agreement term 1.6.2022–31.12.2024 (note that the agreement term may vary depending on the organisation).

The corresponding author does not need to pay an APC (article processing charge). The charges are covered by the agreement.

The agreement covered only a limited number of free OA articles. The articles have now run out.

Who is eligible to publish articles Open Access?

Corresponding authors affiliated to Nature Research subscribing institutions are eligible to publish open access under the agreement. Your institution verifies your affiliation during the publishing process.

Nature Research consortium

Which journal titles are eligible for Open Access publishing?

The agreement covers Nature Research hybrid titles (xlsx)

The agreement covers Open Access publishing of the following article types:

  • Original Paper
  • Analysis
  • Article
  • Letter
  • Brief Communication
  • Registered Report
  • Resource
  • Technical Report

Is my journal compliant with Plan S?

Use the Journal Checker Tool to see if your preferred journal is compliant with Plan S and with the Academy of Finland's OA policy.

Journal Checker Tool

Instructions to the Corresponding Author

  • Once your article has been accepted, you will receive a link to the My Publication system.

  • Choose your affiliation: state the name of the subscribing institution you are affiliated to in the entry field. If you don’t find your institution, type in the city or country and the system will prompt institution names.

  • You will see the Green Box describing the FinELib agreement (an example using Aalto University):

  • Agree to the open access license used by the journal title (CC BY)

CC BY 4.0 (ByAttribution)
Creative Commons describes the license like this:
This license lets others copy, distribute, display and perform the work and make derivative works and remixes based on it only if they give the author or licensor the credits (attribution) in the manner specified by these.

  • Order color figures, offprints or posters if you like. Note that you will personally be charged for them, your institution only covers the article processing charge (APC).

  • Fill in your contact information in the Your Affiliation form.

  • Send the order. Your price is 0 EUR unless you have ordered color figures, offprints or posters.

  • Springer Nature will alert your institution and your library/information service will verify your affiliation in the  system.

  • Springer Nature will publish your article open access.

It's assumed that all corresponding authors will want to publish open access.

If this is not the case with you, contact your library or information service before you complete the My Publication -process.

They will reject verifying your affiliation in the system. You will then receive a new link to My Publication and your article will be published behind a paywall.

If you need further information or help with the OA publishing process, please do not hesitate to contact your library/information service.

ACM

Open Access Publishing in ACM's Journals

FinELib’s agreement with ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) allows authors from participating institutions to publish Open Access in ACM’s titles (journals, magazines, conference proceedings) at no additional charge.

The costs of OA publishing are covered by the agreement and paid for from library budgets.

Am I eligible?

You are eligible if you meet the following criteria:

Publications not included in the agreement: Conference Proceedings Series Ι Journals and Magazines

  • The type of your article is:

      • Research Article,
      • Short Paper,
      • Technical Note / Editorial Note / Note,
      • Tutorial,
      • Case Study,
      • Interview,
      • Review Article or
      • Survey Article.

Is my journal compliant with Plan S?

Use the Journal Checker Tool to see if your preferred journal is compliant with Plan S and with the Academy of Finland's OA policy.

Journal Checker Tool

I am eligible, what do I need to do?

Once your paper has been accepted for publication, you will receive an email containing instructions to Open Access publishing.

To make your article eligible for the agreement choose:

  • Institutionally Paid Open Access and
  • CC license / Allow remixing (CC BY 4.0 license)

in the publishing process.

Need support? Contact your library/information service.

Frontiers

Open Access Publishing in Frontiers' Journals

The FinELib’s agreement with Frontiers allows participating institutions to benefit from a discount of 10 % on Frontiers’ publication fees (Article Processing Charges, APCs).

The discount applies to APCs paid by participating institutions (i.e. it doesn’t apply to APCs paid individually by authors). All articles will be published under the CC BY licence.

Am I eligible?

You are eligible if you meet the criteria below:

  • You are affiliated with one of the participating Finnish institutions

  • You are the corresponding author of the article

  • Your article is peer-reviewed (Frontiers categories A, B, C)

  • Your article has been submitted or accepted for publication during 1.4.2022–31.12.2024 (agreement period may vary from organization to organization)

  • The journal you are publishing in is included in the agreement.
    List of eligible titles (xls)

  • The APC for your article is paid by your organization (e.g. library, department). Please note that requirements and eligibility for APC funding differ from institution to institution.

Need support? Not sure of your eligibility? Email your local library.

Is my journal compliant with Plan S?

Use the Journal Checker Tool to see if your preferred journal is compliant with Plan S and with the Academy of Finland's OA policy.

Journal Checker Tool

I am eligible, what do I need to do?

Frontiers will identify your eligibility:

  • Based on your invoice selection (Choose Payer → Click "Frontiers institutional members" → Start typing the name of your organization and select the correct one from the list.)

  • Based on your affiliation details (corresponding author's first affiliation)

  • Based on your email domain (official domain of your institution)

If one or more of these criteria can be matched, a funding request will be forwarded to your institution for approval.

Please note that if your funding request is not approved, Frontiers will invoice the corresponding author and no discount will be applied.

FAQ

 Elsevier

Open Access Publishing in Cell Press journals

Under FinELib consortium’s agreement with Elsevier, corresponding authors can publish their articles open access without article processing charge (APC)  in Cell Press hybrid journals eligible for the agreement.

There is a limited number of free open access articles available per year.

Am I eligible?

You are eligible if you meet the criteria below:

  • You are the corresponding author of the article who is to communicate with Elsevier through the peer review process

  • You are affiliated with one of the participating institutions: FinELib institutions

  • Your article has been accepted for publication in one of the Cell Press hybrid journals: Cell Press Title List (xls) NB! Alterations to the list are possible during the agreement period.

  • The acceptance date of your article is between Jan 1, 2022 and Dec 31, 2024

  • Your article has been peer-reviewed. Peer-review article types include:

      • full length journal articles
      • review articles
      • short communications
      • case reports
      • short reviews (surveys)
      • original software publications
      • data articles
      • micro-articles
      • protocols
      • replication studies
      • videos.

Is my journal compliant with Plan S?

Use the Journal Checker Tool to see if your preferred journal is compliant with Plan S and with the Academy of Finland's OA policy.

Journal Checker Tool

I am eligible, what do I need to do?

Once your article is accepted, you will receive an e-mail from Elsevier asking you to fill in the Rigths and Access form.

Filling in the Rigths and Access form

  1. Corresponding Author's organization: Start typing the name of your organisation and select the correct one from the list offered by the system. Affiliation details will be used to identify the authors and match them to the FinELib agreement. If you do not find your organisation's name, please contact your library/information service for more information.

  2. If relevant in the case of your article, fill in the co-author and funder details.

  3. Based on your affiliation details you will be presented your publishing options. If your affiliation has been identified and matched to the FinELib agreement, the gold open access option is preselected and you can see that the article publishing charge has been credited.

  4. Select the CC license. We recommend that your choose CC BY which is required by many funders.

  5. Proceed to the confirmation page and complete the request.

After you have completed the request it will be forwarded to your institution for approval. Once your institute has verified your eligibility, you will receive a confirmation and your article will be made freely available online.

In the event that your request to publish open access is not approved (i.e. if you are not eligible) or the maximum number of free open access articles has been reached you will have the option to pay the APC yourself.

If you need further information or help with open access publishing process, please contact your library/information service.

Instructions to authors can also be found on Elsevier web pages.

Oxford University Press

Open Access Publishing in OUP's Journals

FinELib’s agreement with OUP allows authors from participating institutions to publish Open Access in OUP’s hybrid journals at no additional charge. The costs of OA publishing are covered by the agreement and paid for from library budgets.

For articles in OUP's fully OA journals, a 15% discount on the normal APC (Article Processing Charge) applies.

Am I eligible?

You are eligible if you meet the criteria below:

  • You are affiliated with one of the participating Finnish institutions. Please note that you must indicate this as your primary affiliation when submitting the article.
  • Your article has been received into production during 1.1.2024–31.12.2025: list of eligible titles (xls).
  • You are the corresponding author of the article.
  • The type of your article is:
      • research,
      • review,
      • brief report or
      • case report. or
      • rapid communications article
  • Your article is not published in a Supplement (i.e. specifically designated issues
    supplementary to a journal’s usual publication, often sponsored by
    third parties).

Need support? Not sure of your eligibility? Email your library/information services.

Is my journal compliant with Plan S?

Use the Journal Checker Tool to see if your preferred journal is compliant with Plan S and with the Academy of Finland's OA policy.

Journal Checker Tool

I am eligible

What do I need to do to publish in OUP's hybrid journals?

What do I need to do to publish in OUP's fully OA journals?

What do I need to do to publish in OUP's hybrid journals?

To get started:

  • When submitting your paper, make sure you indicate the qualifying institution as your primary affiliation.

  • Once your paper has been peer-reviewed and accepted for publication, you will receive an email containing a link to the Online Licensing and Payment System, SciPris.

  • Click "Select a license" to proceed.

Step 1 - Welcome

Click "Continue with open access agreements". For screenshots, see OUP's Author Guide (pdf).

Step 2 - Register/Sign in

Sign in and create an account if you don't have one. In case you already have one, select the author.

Step 3 - Select a license

Select your OA licence and click "I accept". We recommend that authors select the CC BY publication license. The Finnish national policy on open access strongly recommends the selection of the CC BY licence, while several funders mandate it.

Step 4 - Arrange Payment

Click "Submit request" to send your request for review.

Step 5 - Confirmation

  • View your dashboard. A confirmation will be displayed.

  • Your institution will now validate your eligibility. When publishing in a subscription/hybrid journal, you will receive an email when your request has been been reviewed.

  • Once approved, your article will be made freely available online.

Please note that if your request is not approved (i.e. if you are not eligible), you will need to arrange payment of the APC via another method.

What do I need to do to publish in OUP's fully OA journals?

  • The 15% APC discount will be applied automatically based on affiliation. The discount is applicable to all article types.

  • You will see the discounted rate when you login to select a license and proceed to arranging payment.

FAQ

Taylor & Francis

Open Access Publishing in Taylor & Francis Journals

2023–2024 FinELib agreement with Taylor & Francis includes open publishing in almost 2000 journals published by Taylor & Francis / Routledge.

Agreement includes most Open Select (hybrid) journals in both Social Sciences & Humanities and Science & Technology fields. (Please check the exact title list below.)

Agreement doesn't include T&F journals in Medical fields, or most of the Full Open Access journals.

Any journals which convert from Open Select journals to Full Open Access journals will stay included in the FinELib agreement until the end of 2024.

FinELib agreement includes a limited quota for publishing OA articles. It is possible that the article quota runs out in December 2024, in which case articles accepted in late 2024 cannot be published open access under the FinELib agreement.

For the year 2025 negotiations are currently ongoing.

Am I entitled to publish my article Open Access free of charge?

You are entitled to publish your article Open Access free of charge if:

  • You are the corresponding author of your article.

  • You are a researcher, a student or a staff member (at the time when your article is accepted) in one of the organisations subscibing to T&F Libraries

  • Your article is accepted for publishing after Jan 1st 2023 in one of the qualifying journals (xlsx). This includes most T&F Open Select journals in Social Sciences & Humanities and Science & Technology. (Medical journals, or most of T&F's fully open journals, are not included.)

Eligible articles

Eligible articles are core, peer reviewed research articles, defined but not necessarily limited to the below list:

  • Article
  • Review
  • Research Article
  • Review Article
  • Report
  • Short Communication
  • Case Report
  • Note
  • Original Article
  • Guest Editorial

Instructions for the corresponding authors

What do I need to do to get the benefit?

Once your article is accepted, you are identified belonging to a certain organisation on the basis of the name of the organisation you have provided.

When submitting your article, select carefully your main organisation from the drop down menu (neither faculty nor department), and use your organisational e-mail address to make your organisation known to T&F.

In case your affiliation changes after leaving your manuscript don’t forget to tell your production editor about your new affiliation.

Once your article has been accepted:

  1. T&F will send you e-mail with a link to T&F's Author Publishing Agreement.

  2. After confirming article details and research funders, you are asked to choose Open Access.

  3. Choose "I would like to use [name of your organization] Open Access agreement".

  4. Confirm copyright ownership, and choose the license for your Open Access article (CC BY).

  5. Accept your Author Publishing Agreement.

  6. Your organization will be notified of your article, and will approve your article for Open Access publishing as part of the agreement. (If for some reason your article wouldn't be approved by your organisation, T&F will contact you, and you can choose to either pay for the APC yourself, or to revert to publishing behind a paywall.)

If you need help or further information, please contact your library / information service.

Wiley

Open Access Publishing in Wiley Journals

FinELib consortium’s agreement with Wiley enables the researchers to publish their articles open access in Wiley’s Full OA and hybrid journals during the agreement term 2023–2024.

The agreement includes a limited number of articles.

Who is eligible to publish articles Open Access?

You are eligible to publish your article open access, if you fill the following requirements:

In addition, your institution verifies your affiliation to Wiley during the publishing process.

Creative Commons (CC) licenses

When publishing your article open access, your institution, many funders (including Academy of Finland) and open science guidelines require or strongly recommend to choose CC BY license for your article.

If the journal does not offer CC BY through publication process, you should request Wiley to change the license type. Contact your institution for further information.

Selection of the following licenses are offered title by title.

ByAttribution

Creative Commons describes the license like this:
This license lets others copy, distribute, display and perform the work and make derivative works and remixes based on it only if they give the author or licensor the credits (attribution) in the manner specified by these.

Instructions for the corresponding author

Open Access publishing in Wiley’s Full OA journals

Open Access publishing in Wiley’s hybrid journals

Open Access publishing in Wiley’s Full OA journals

  • During submission, select the option The Corresponding Author’s institution/funder has an agreement with Wiley

  • In the Open Access stage of the process, check your eligibility from the dropdown menus to find your affiliated institution.

  • When selecting your institution you will see the correct Wiley Open Access Code. Click on the button to copy the code and enter it in the submission system when asked.

  • Your institution is notified of your request to publish your article open access and asked to approve.

  • If your article will be accepted by the journal and your institution will thereafter approve the request, you will receive a confirmation email. Your accepted article is then published open access under a Creative Commons license on Wiley Online Library.

Wiley’s instructions: Publishing Your Article in a Fully Open Access Journal (pdf)

Open Access publishing in Wiley’s hybrid journals

  • Once your article is accepted, register or log-in to Wiley Author Services at www.wileyauthors.com. Look for your article, click Manage Article and then Select Open Access.

  • You may be asked to enter your funding information or confirm the funder(s) you entered during submission. Select your funder from the adjacent dropdown list or start typing to search. You may also tick I did not receive any funding for this article.

  • You may be asked to enter your affiliation(s) from the drop down list or confirm the affiliation(s) you entered during submission.

  • When prompted, select Yes, make my article open access. Your institution will be notified of your request to publish your article open access and asked to approve.

  • If your request is approved, you will receive a confirmation email. Your accepted article is then published open access under a Creative Commons license.

Wiley’s instructions: Make your article open access within a hybrid journal (pdf)

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