Some of the agreement include full article publishing charge (APC) coverage, other agreements ensure a discount on the APC for researchers from USN.
Note well that for fully open access journal articles, you may still be entitled to apply for support from the publication fund!
USN has agreements with the following publishers:
- American Chemical Society (ACS) - workflow for authors and licenses
- Cambridge University Press: Read more about the agreement and how to publish Open access in CUP here.
- Elsevier (deal with quota) - see workflow for authors. On Elsevier's web page Elsevier-Unit Agreement you will find a "journal search tool" showing titles eligible for the agreement.
- Frontiers: USN-researchers get a 10% discount on APC.
- Emerald - The publisher offers green open access. Read about benefits of choosing open access with Emerald here.
- Institute of Physics (IOP) - Instructions for authors
- MDPI: A purely open access publisher.
- Sage
- - See author workflow
- SpringerNature - See author workflow
- Taylor & Francis - See author workflow
- Wiley - no agreement for 2025
Total overview: You'll find an total overview of all available agreements for Norwegian universites and research institutes on Open Science.