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Open access agreements with publishers

Take advantage of the open access agreements we have with publishers! Under the agreements, Aalto affiliated corresponding authors can publish their articles without open access fees (APC fee) or get discounts on them.

Agreements are Plans S compliant transformative agreements which provide researchers possibility to access scientific journals and publish articles open access without APC fees (so called Read & Publish).

You can take advantage of the agreements when the following criteria are met:

  1. You are affiliated with Aalto University, ie. you are a researcher, doctoral student or other staff member of Aalto University.
    1. Your affiliation with Aalto university is clearly stated in the article.
    2. Most publishers require that your affiliation with Aalto University is valid at the time of the acceptance of the article. 
  2. You are the corresponding author of the article, i.e. you submit the manuscript and communicate with the publisher through the peer review process.
  3. You use your Aalto email when submitting the manuscript and choose Aalto University as your organization, because the identification is based on these.

Please note:

  • The agreements cover open access fees (APC), but not additional costs like color photographs or extra pages.
  • Most publishers have a shared pool of free open access articles for the FinElib Consortium and an annual or agreement period quota. Please keep in mind the quota may run out.
  • All the journals of a publisher are not covered by the agreements. Please check the detailed journal lists and instructions in the table below. Agreements cover mainly hybrid journals, with some exceptions.
  • If the journal is not included in the agreement or you are not able to otherwise take advantage of the agreement, please check the possibility for green open access (self-archiving).
  • Apart from open access agreements, Aalto University does not have a central open access fund. If you publish in a journal which is not covered by our agreements, APC fee should be covered either through project funding or basic funding of the department. Please make sure to contact the controller of your own department for assistance in such cases.

Funders' open access requirements:

Support and help: [email protected]

Read & Publish agreements under renewal: how this affects open access publishing and access to scientific journals?

Some of the current Read & Publish agreements will terminate by the end of 2023. Negotiations of the renewal of the agreements are still ongoing, and it is not yet certain whether all the agreements will be renewed.

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Publisher Discount for Aalto corresponding authors

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Article quota

Journals included Guidelines and detailed journal lists Current news
ACM -Association for Computing Machinery

No APC fee

Agreement can be used only if CC BY license is selected

31.12.2024

Selection of:

-journals and magazines

-proceedings

Open Access Publishing in ACM  
ACS - The American Chemical Society No APC fee

31.12.2023

Article quota for the agreement period

Hybrid journals

Full OA journals

Open Access Publishing in American Chemical Society

5.6.2023: Negotiations on renewing the agreement are ongoing

4.12.2023: Negotiations of the renewal of the agreements are still ongoing

Elsevier No APC fee

31.12.2023

Article quota for the agreement period

Hybrid journals

Eligible journals search

Open Access Publishing in Elsevier

5.6.2023: Negotiations on renewing the agreement are ongoing

4.12.2023: Negotiations of the renewal of the agreements are still ongoing

Elsevier Cell Press

No APC fee

31.12.2024

Annual article quota

Hybrid journals Open Access Publishing in Cell Press journals  
Emerald No APC fee

31.12.2023

No quota

Emerald Premier journals Open Access Publishing in Emerald

5.6.2023: Negotiations on renewing the agreement are ongoing

4.12.2023: Negotiations of the renewal of the agreements are still ongoing

Frontiers 10 % discount

31.12.2024

No quota

Full OA journals Open Access Publishing in Frontiers
 
 
IEEE No APC fee

31.12.2023

Article quota for the agreement period as well as annual quota

Hybrid journals

Full OA journals

Open Access Publishing in IEEE

5.6.2023: Negotiations on renewing the agreement are ongoing

20.11.2023:
Additional open access articles for Aalto authors available for the rest of 2023.

4.12.2023: Negotiations of the renewal of the agreements are still ongoing

IOP Publishing - Institute of Physics

No APC fee

31.12.2024

No quota

Journals included in lists A, B and C 

(Gold open access journals in list D are not included)

Open Access Publishing in IOP Publishing  
MDPI 10 % discount

14.10.2024

No quota

Full OA journals Open Access Publishing in MDPI
 
 

Nature Research

(See also Springer Nature)

No APC fee

31.12.2024

Article quota has run out

Hybrid journals Open Access Publishing in Nature Research 13.10.2023: Article quota has run out. Additional open access funding will be available. Contact [email protected]
RSC - The Royal Society of Chemistry

No APC fee for hybrid journals

15 % discount for full open access journals

31.12.2023

Hybrid journals

Full OA journals

Open Access Publishing in RSC

5.6.2023: Negotiations on renewing the agreement are ongoing

4.12.2023: Negotiations of the renewal of the agreements are still ongoing

SAGE

No APC fee for hybrid journals

20 % discount for gold open access journals

31.12.2024

Hybrid journals

Full OA journals

Open Access Publishing in SAGE  
Science Advances 15 % discount 31.12.2024 Science Advances is a Full OA journal Open Access Publishing in Science Advances  
SCOAP3 No APC fee 31.12.2024 Key journals in the field of High-Energy Physics Open Access Publishing in SCOAP3 journals  

Springer Nature

(see also Nature Research)

No APC fee

31.12.2023

Article quota for the agreement period

Hybrid journals Open Access Publishing in Springer Nature

5.6.2023: Negotiations on renewing the agreement are ongoing

4.12.2023: Negotiations of the renewal of the agreements are still ongoing

Taylor & Francis

No APC fee

31.12.2024

Annual article quota.

Hybrid journals

(Premium journals excluded)

Open Access Publishing in Taylor & Francis


 

Wiley

No APC fee

31.12.2024

Annual article quota.

Hybrid journals

Full OA journals

Open Access Publishing in Wiley

Wiley author guidelines

Useful information

Open access fees

Open access fees refer to article processing charges (APC fees) set by publishers.

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Publishing agreements

In publishing agreements, authors agree on copyright issues, such as the principles of authorship and terms for open access publishing and self-archiving (green open access). Researchers should make sure that terms either offer immediate gold open access or allow for green open access agreed upon with the funding bodies.

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Funders' open science requirements

Research funders want to promote open science and research, which is why they set requirements for the openness of research publications and data they are funding. European Commission (EC) and Research Council of Finland (former Academy of Finland) are participating in the open access initiative Plan S, which affects the open access and open data requirements in calls starting in 2021.

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Plan S

Plan S is an open access initiative launched by the EU Commission and Science Europe. At its core is the objective that, in calls starting from 1 January 2021, all scholarly articles resulting from public research funding must be published in open access journals or on open access platforms.

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An image describing the benefits of open access (for example findability, impact, visibility, higher citation rates, compliance with grant rules, value for taxpayers)

Open Access Publishing

Open access to publications ensures that scientific publications are accessible to everyone free of charge.

Open science and research
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