Avainsana: article processing charge

SCOAP3

Avoin julkaiseminen SCOAP3-lehdissä

Korkeaenergiafysiikan alaan kuuluvat artikkelit voidaan julkaista avoimina CC BY -lisenssillä ja ilman kirjoittajamaksua SCOAP3-lehdissä.

Avoimen julkaisemisen kustannukset kattaa CERN:in alaisuudessa toimiva SCOAP3-konsortio, johon kuuluu kirjastoja, kirjastokonsortioita (ml. FinELib), tutkimuslaitoksia ja rahoittajia yli 40 maasta.

Näin saat edun käyttöösi

Lähetä korkeaenergiafysiikan alaan kuuluva artikkelisi valitsemaasi SCOAP3-lehteen (xls.) ja etene lehtikohtaisten ohjeiden mukaan:  SCOAP3 Journals: Author guidelines.

Tarvitsetko apua? Ota yhteyttä oman organisaatiosi kirjastoon tai tietopalveluun. Lisätietoa löydät myös SCAOP3:n FAQ-sivulta.

Onko valitsemani lehti PlanS-yhteensopiva?

Kaikki SCOAP3-lehdet täyttävät cOAlitionS:n ja Suomen Akatemian rahoitusehdot. Lisätietoja voit etsiä Journal Checker Toolin avulla.

Journal Checker Tool

SCOAP3

Open Access Publishing in SCOAP3 Journals

Under the SCOAP3 model, authors of high-energy physics articles worldwide can publish OA in SCOAP3 journals at no cost to themselves.

SCOAP3 is a partnership of over 3000 libraries, library consortia (including FinELib), funding agencies, and research institutions from over 40 countries. Managed by CERN, SCOAP3 funds Open Access (OA) publishing in High-Energy Physics (HEP) research and has converted key HEP journals to OA, in addition to supporting fully OA journals in HEP.

What do I need to do?

Just submit your article to one of the SCOAP3 journals. There will be no Article Processing Charge (APC) and you will retain the copyright of your work.

See the List of SCOAP3 titles (xls).

For more detailed author instructions, see SCOAP3 Journals: Author Guidelines.

Need support? Email your library. For more information about SCOAP3, 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 1.1.2025–31.12.2026 (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.

We have a limited number of open access articles for the agreement term.

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,
      • 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.

FinELib strikes open access deal with Frontiers

8.4.2021

The agreement allows participating institutions to benefit from a 10% national discount, streamlined submission and payment workflows, and other benefits.

FinELib and Frontiers have announced a new three-year (2022-2024) open access agreement. The agreement is the FinELib's first with a fully open access publisher and allows participating institutions to choose from three invoicing schemes (invoiced individually, monthly, or prepayment).

While making it easier for authors to publish their work open access, the agreement also allows institutions to remain in full control as each APC will be verified before being paid. Further benefits include frozen maximum APCs for the duration of the agreement and improved transparency of OA expenditure through detailed reports.

Read Frontiers' press release here.

Participating institutions:

  • Aalto University
  • University of Lapland
  • National Defence University (incl. the military schools)
  • Tampere University including Tampere University Hospital
  • Abo Akademi University
  • Laurea University of Applied Sciences
  • Tampere University of Applied Sciences
  • Natural Resources Institute Finland
  • VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland

 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 in 2025 and 2026.

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 1st of Jan  2025 and 31st of Dec, 2026.

  • 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.

 Elsevier

Artikkelin julkaiseminen avoimena Cell Press -lehdissä

FinELibin ja Elsevierin sopimuksen perusteella vastaavat kirjoittajat voivat julkaista avoimia artikkeleita ilman kirjoittajamaksua (APC-maksu, article processing charge) sopimuksen piiriin kuuluvissa Elsevierin Cell Press -lehdissä.

Avoimia artikkeleita on vuoden 2025 ja 2026 aikana käytettävissä rajallinen määrä.

Olenko oikeutettu maksuttomaan avoimeen julkaisemiseen?

Olet oikeutettu julkaisemaan artikkelisi avoimena maksutta, jos:

  • olet artikkelisi vastaava kirjoittaja (corresponding author) ja olet yhteydessä Elsevieriin vertaisarviointiprosessin aikana

  • organisaatiosi on mukana FinELib-sopimuksessa: Cell Press -tilaajat

  • artikkelisi on hyväksytty julkaistavaksi sopimuksen piiriin kuuluvassa Cell Press -lehdessä (xls) (lehtilistaan voi tulla muutoksia sopimuskauden aikana)

  • artikkelisi hyväksymispäivämäärä (acceptance date) on ajalla 1.1.2025–31.12.2026

  • artikkelisi on vertaisarvioitu, artikkelityypit:

      • 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 Reseacrh Council of Finland's OA policy.

Journal Checker Tool

Näin saat edun käyttöösi

Kun artikkeli, jossa olet vastaavana kirjoittana (corresponding author) on hyväksytty, saat Elsevieriltä sähköpostin, jossa sinua pyydetään täyttämään Rights and Access form.

Elsevierin Rights and Access -lomakkeen täyttäminen

  1. Kohdassa Corresponding Author's Organization: kirjoita organisaatiosi nimi (englanniksi) ja valitse järjestelmän tarjoamista vaihtoehdoista oikea. Järjestelmä tunnistaa affiliaatiotietojesi perusteella, oletko oikeutettu avoimeen julkaisemiseen FinELib-sopimuksella.

    Jos et löydä organisaatiosi nimeä, ota yhteyttä kirjastoosi tai tietopalveluusi, jotta saat apua asian selvittämisessä.

  2. Täytä tarvittaessa muiden kirjoittajien tiedot (co-authors) ja tutkimuksen rahoittajan tiedot (funder details).

  3. Järjestelmä tarjoaa sinulle julkaisuvaihtoehdot antamiesi affiliaatiotietojen perusteella. Jos organisaatiosi on mukana FinELib-sopimuksessa, oletusvalintana on gold open access -julkaiseminen ja lomakkeella näkyy, että APC-maksusi on hyvitetty.

  4. Valitse CC-lisenssi. Suosittelemme valitsemaan CC BY:n, jota useat rahoittajat edellyttävät.

  5. Täytä lomake loppuun.

Lomakkeen täyttämisen jälkeen Elsevier välittää pyyntösi verifioitavaksi organisaatiollesi. Kun organisaatiosi kirjasto tai tietopalvelu on verifioinut pyyntösi, saat vahvistuksen ja Elsevier julkaisee artikkelisi avoimena.

Jos pyyntöäsi ei ole hyväksytty tai kaikki maksuttomat avoimet artikkelit on jo käytetty, tulee sinun kattaa avoimen julkaisemisen kustannukset itse.

Lisätietoja ja apua saat oman organisaatiosi kirjastosta tai tietopalvelusta, tai Elsevierin verkkosivuilta.

APC-projektin loppuraportti julkaistu!

26.2.2021

Miten FinELibin jäsenorganisaatiot ovat järjestäneet APC-maksuseurantansa? Ja miten kirjoittajamaksujen seurantaa tulisi kehittää, jotta Tutkimusjulkaisujen avoimen saatavuuden linjauksessakin mainitut tavoitteet kirjoittajamaksujen läpinäkyvyydestä muuttuisivat todellisuudeksi?

Näihin ja moniin muihin kysymyksiin tarjotaan vastauksia FinELibin APC-projektin (2019-2020) loppuraportissa, jonka johtopäätökset ja suositukset kokosimme alle:

OKM:n rahoittaman APC-projektin tavoitteena oli kehittää kirjoittajamaksujen (APC, Article Processing Charge) seurantaa ja raportointia yhdessä konsortion jäsenorganisaatioiden ja sidosryhmien kanssa. Projektin pilottiin osallistui kuusi organisaatiota: Hanken Svenska Handelshögskolan, Itä-Suomen yliopisto, Jyväskylän yliopisto, Laurea-ammattikorkeakoulu, Luonnonvarakeskus ja Turun yliopisto.

APC-projektin loppuraportti: Kirjoittajamaksut ja niiden seuranta: havaintoja ja kehitysehdotuksia

Lisätietoja projektista myös Kansalliskirjaston Tietolinja-lehden artikkelissa: APC-maksut tulivat, nyt etsitään avoimen julkaisemisen hintalappua

Lehti- ja konferenssiartikkeleiden avoimen saatavuuden osalinjaus

Lisätietoja: timo.vilen@helsinki.fi

Final report of the FinELib's APC-project out now!

26.2.2021

The report is the result of a project undertaken by the FinELib consortium in 2019–2020 to explore the motivations and challenges associated with the monitoring of APC (Article Processing Charge) expenditure among its member organisations.

The report is in Finnish but contains an Executive Summary in English which summarises the key conclusions of the project while also highlighting some of the actions Finnish institutions and stakeholders are urged to take to further promote the monitoring of APCs.

The report (Kirjoittajamaksut ja niiden seuranta: havaintoja ja kehitysehdotuksia) can be accessed here.

For more information, please contact: timo.vilen@helsinki.fi

Follow us on Twitter @FinELibpalvelu

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 entered into OUP's production process after acceptance during 1.1.2026–31.12.2028: 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

I wasn't aware of the FinELib deal and published my research behind a paywall. Can it still be made OA at no cost?
I am eligible but ended up paying an APC using my own funds. Can you arrange for the APC to be reversed?
Oops, looks like I chose a non-compliant OA licence. What should I do?
CC BY - What does it mean for my article?
Is my journal compliant with Plan S?
Does the agreement cover colour and page charges?
Which OUP journals are covered?
Are all article types covered?
Why publish open access?
Is there a limit to the total number of articles published OA under the agreement?
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