Open Access agreements and discounts

Last changed: 27 February 2023
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SLU has agreements in place with several publishers, which means that you as a researcher can publish your article open access free of charge or at a discounted rate.

SLU covers the open access fee in its entirety when publishing with:

  • American Chemical Society  
  • Brill Journals  
  • Cambridge University Press  
  • Company of Biologists  
  • Elsevier  
  • Emerald Journals  
  • Microbiology Society  
  • Oxford University Press  
  • Public Library of Science (PLoS)  
  • Royal Society of Chemistry  
  • SAGE (hybrid journals only) 
  • SpringerNature (incl. BioMed Central)  
  • Taylor & Francis  
  • Wiley  

Discounts on the open access fee are offered when publishing with:  

  • Frontiers (10% discount)  
  • MDPI (20% discount)  
  • Royal Society Publishing (25% discount)  
  • SAGE (20% discount for full OA journals)