Publish with open access

SLU's own publications

The SLU Research and EMA database is also used as a platform for the electronic publication of SLU's own publications.

• All publications published by SLU must be made openly available in full text in the database.
• Publications that are not part of an SLU series can also be published, but the document must have a publisher or responsible organisation (usually your department). You are responsible for ensuring that the department (or equivalent) supports the publication.

Requirements and recommendations for publication

• Minimum metadata requirements: author (originator) with affiliation, publication year, title, publisher or responsible organisation.
  • If metadata is missing, the document should be updated in the first instance. It is also possible to add a cover sheet. Contact the library for help.
• DOI, ISBN and part numbers (for books, dissertations and reports) will be requested by the library.
  • Get DOI, ISBN and number.
• Please use SLU's document templates.
  • SLU's document templates for publications.
• The file should be machine-readable. PDFs are usually published, but other file formats are available.

Publishing research data

Research data is not published in SLU's publications database, but can be registered and made visible.

Make already published publications openly available

You can make published material openly available in a number of ways, for example if:

• An article is not openly available, but the publisher allows the accepted version to be published.
• You want to increase dissemination and provide persistent links and metadata to publications that are already openly available.

Publications from scientific journals

• SLU's Policy for scientific publishing state that all peer-reviewed articles must be published openly, either in an open journal or in SLU's Research and EMA database.
• The library controls what can be published, which version can be used and keeps track of any embargo periods.
• CC-licensed articles are automatically added in full text by the library.
• Journals that do not allow the published version of an article to be made openly available often allow the accepted version (peer-reviewed but without the publisher's formatting) to be published openly. This is usually allowed after an embargo period (6-24 months).

Other publications

You can also make books, book chapters, reports and conference proceedings openly available. In this case, you are responsible for obtaining permission from the copyright holder, usually the publisher.

Change or retract of full text

• Minor changes to content are handled by errata.
• Major changes require a revision of the published document, with the new document clearly indicating that it is a revised version.
• Retraction of full text may be made at the request of the author, copyright holder or head of department/equivalent.
• Full text in SLU theses, reports and fact sheet series will not normally be retracted.
• Retraction means that the text becomes inaccessible, but metadata and an explanation of the retraction remain.