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
• 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.
  • The agreement has been renegotiated for 2022-24. 
• 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 
  • The agreement has been renegotiated for 2022-24.
• Taylor & Francis  - See author workflow  
  • Journals that are included in the agreement and that allow open access publishing without the need for payment of an article processing charge (APC)
  • Journals where an additional APC is required to be paid if an article is to be published open access
  • Title list T&F Gold 
• Wiley - See author workflow (video) 

  • This agreement has been re-negotiated and is fully valid from May 2023.

  • Read also Open access agreement for Norwegian institutions (opens at Wiley.com). Here you will find information on how researchers affiliated at the participating institutions can publish as part of the agreement.

Total overview: You'll find an total overview of all available agreements for Norwegian universites and research institutes on Open Science.