Agreements for Publishing Open Access

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NTNU has made agreements with publishers for publishing Open Access. If you do not know what publisher/agreement the journal belongs to, please check the Norwegian register for Scientific Journals, Series and Publishers

To have an Article Processing Charge (APC) covered for publications outside our agreements, read more about the criterias here: NTNU's publication funding arrangement

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Innholdsfortegnelse [-]

This apply to all agreements:

The Corresponding Author must be affiliated with NTNU. In many agreements, authors from St. Olav hospital - Trondheim University Hospital are also included. The person sending the article to the publisher is defined as the Corresponding Author. If you are the only author, you will automatically be defined as Corresponding Author.
State/choose NTNU as your institution if you sign a publishing agreement. These agreements may be referred to as ‘License Agreement’, ‘publishing contract’. To avoid doubt about your affiliation, please give and use your ntnu.no email in your correspondence with the publisher. If asked, choose Open Access.
Make sure you do not sign an author agreement where you renounce the rights to the article.
If you have a choice of licence NTNU is recommending the Creative Commons CC BY. This gives the best possibility for the article’s future sharing, outreach and reuse. You will retain copyright. Read more about the licences that are accepted by the Research Council of Norway.

American Chemical Society (ACS)

Duration of agreement	1 Jan 2024 – 31 Dec 2025
Agreement includes	Read and Publish. This covers both APCs and read access for NTNU.
Qualified authors	Corresponding authors affiliated with NTNU.
Qualified articles	Peer reviewed articles where the manuscript is accepted for publication during the agreement period.
Licences available	Creative Commons CC BY.
How does it work?	State your affiliation with NTNU throughout ACS’ publishing process (PDF). Use your ntnu.no email address.
Journals included	All subscription and OA journals by ACS (Excel-file)
Other/further information	More information at ACS’ web pages and openscience.no

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

Duration of agreement	1 Jan 2022 - 31 Dec 2025
Agreement includes	Read and Publish. This covers both APCs and read access for NTNU and St. Olavs hospital.
Qualified authors	Corresponding authors affiliated with NTNU or St. Olavs hospital.
Qualified articles	Peer reviewed articles where the manuscript is accepted for publication during the agreement period.
Licences available	Creative Commons CC BY
How does it work?	Your affiliation with NTNU or St. Olav hospital will be checked based on your email. Use your ntnu.no or stolav.no email when sending your manuscript.
Journals included	ACM's own journals and conference proceedings
Other/further information	More information at openscience.no

Cambridge University Press (CUP)

Duration of agreement	1 Jan 2024 – 31 Dec 2025
Agreement includes	Read and Publish. This covers both APCs and read access for NTNU or St. Olavs hospital.
Qualified authors	Corresponding authors affiliated with NTNU or St. Olavs hospital.
Qualified articles	Peer reviewed articles where the manuscript is accepted for publication during the agreement period (Research articles, Review articles or Rapid Communications).
Licences available	Creative Commons CC BY is recommended. The publisher may offer other licences. However, these are not accepted by Plan S and/or the new contract from the Research Council of Norway.
How does it work?	State your affiliation with NTNU or St. Olavs hospital throughout CUP's publication process. Use your ntnu.no or stolav.no email address. When signing the OA publishing agreement, choose Open Access.
Journals included	Subscription and OA journals by CUP 2025 (Excel-file)
Other/further information	More information at CUP's web pages and openscience.no

Elsevier

Duration of agreement	1 Jan 2022 - 31 Dec 2025
Agreement includes	Read and Publish. This covers both APCs and read access for NTNU and St. Olavs hospital in the publisher's subscription journals. APCs for NTNU in the publisher's OA-journals.
Qualified authors	Corresponding authors affiliated with NTNU or St. Olavs hospital (subscription journals). Corresponding authors affiliated with NTNU (OA-journals).
Qualified articles	Peer reviewed articles where the manuscript is accepted for publication during the agreement period.
Licences available	Creative Commons CC BY is recommended. The publisher may offer other licences. However, these are not accepted by Plan S and/or the new contract from the Research Council of Norway.
How does it work?	State your affiliation with NTNU or St. Olavs hospital throughout Elsevier's publishing process (PowerPoint-file). Use your ntnu.no or stolav.no email address.
Journals included	Subscription and OA-journals by Elsevier 2025 (Excel-file)
Other/further information	More information at Elsevier's web pages and openscience.no

Frontiers

Duration of agreement	1 Jan 2024 – 31 Dec 2025
Agreement includes	APC's for NTNU and Helse Midt-Norge RHF
Qualified authors	Corresponding authors affiliated with NTNU or Helse Midt-Norge RHF.
Qualified articles	Article types A and B (see 'Article types') where the manuscript is accepted for publication during the agreement period.
Licences available	Creative Commons CC BY.
How does it work?	Please select 'NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY’ as the payer in the invoice section when submitting your article. Frontiers will then verify your eligibility with NTNU University Library, and if confirmed, the APC will be paid by NTNU upon acceptance. Use your ntnu.no, helse-midt.no, stolav.no, helse-mr.no, hnt.no, sykeshusapoteket.no, or hemit.no email address.
Journals included	All journals published by Frontiers
Other/further information	More information at Frontiers' web pages and openscience.no

IEEE

Duration of agreement	1 Mar 2022 - 31 Dec 2025
Agreement includes	Pay-as-you-publish. This covers APCs for NTNU.
Qualified authors	Corresponding authors affiliated with NTNU.
Qualified articles	Peer reviewed articles where the manuscript is accepted for publication during the agreement period.
Licences available	Creative Commons CC BY
How does it work?	State your affiliation with NTNU throughout the IEEE publishing process. Use you ntnu.no email.
Journals included	IEEE Access and the rest of IEEE open journals
Other/further information	More information at IEEE's web pages.

Institute of Physics (IOP)

Duration of agreement	1 Jan 2024 - 31 Dec 2025
Agreement includes	Read and Publish. This covers APCs for NTNU.
Qualified authors	Corresponding authors affiliated with NTNU.
Qualified articles	Peer reviewed articles where the manuscript is accepted for publication during the agreement period.
Licences available	Creative Commons CC BY.
How does it work?	State your affiliation with NTNU throughout the publishing process. Use you ntnu.no email.
Journals included	Subscription and OA-journals by IOP 2025
Other/further information	More information at IOP's web pages and openscience.no

MDPI

Duration of agreement	1 June 2023 - 31 Dec 2025
Agreement includes	Pay-as-you-publish. This covers APCs for NTNU.
Qualified authors	Corresponding authors affiliated with NTNU.
Qualified articles	Peer reviewed articles (‘Research paper’) where the manuscript is accepted for publication during the agreement period.
Licences available	Creative Commons CC BY.
How does it work?	Use your ntnu.no email address and choose NTNU under "Institutional Open Access Program (IOAP)" when submitting your manuscript.
Journals included	All journals published by MDPI
Other/further information	More information at MDPI's web pages and openscience.no

Microbiology Society

Duration of agreement	1 Jan 2023 – 31 Dec 2025
Agreement includes	Read and Publish. This covers both APCs and read access for NTNU and St. Olavs hospital.
Qualified authors	Corresponding authors affiliated with NTNU or St. Olavs hospital.
Qualified articles	Peer reviewed articles where the manuscript is accepted for publication during the agreement period.
Licences available	Creative Commons CC BY.
How does it work?	When submitting your manuscript, use your ntnu.no or stolav.no email address.
Journals included	All journals published by Microbiology Society.
Other/further information	More information at Microbiology Society's web pages

Open Library of Humanities (OLH)

Duration of agreement	1.1.2023-31.12.2025
Agreement includes	Membership. The membership fee cover publishing costs in participating journals.
Qualified authors	All authors.
Qualified articles	All articles.
Licences available	Creative Commons CC BY is recommended.
How does it work?
Journals included	All journals on the OLH platform
Other/further information	More information at OLH's web pages and openscience.no

Oxford University Press (OUP)

Duration of agreement	1 Jan 2024 – 31 Dec 2025
Agreement includes	Read and Publish. This covers both APCs and read access for NTNU and St. Olavs hospital.
Qualified authors	Corresponding authors affiliated with NTNU or St. Olavs hospital.
Qualified articles	Peer reviewed articles where the manuscript is accepted for publication during the agreement period.
Licences available	Creative Commons CC BY is recommended.
How does it work?	You must indicate NTNU as your primary affiliation when submitting the article in order to be recognized as eligible. Use your ntnu.no or stolav.no email address. After acceptance, please see Oxford's Author Guide.
Journals included	Subscription journals by OUP (Excel-file)
Other/further information	More information at OUP's web pages and openscience.no

Public Library of Science (PLOS)

Duration of agreement	1 Jan 2024 – 31 Dec 2026
Agreement includes	Membership and Read and Publish. This covers APCs for NTNU.
Qualified authors	Corresponding authors affiliated with NTNU.
Qualified articles	Peer reviewed articles where the manuscript is accepted for publication during the agreement period.
Licences available	Creative Commons CC BY.
How does it work?	State your affiliation with NTNU during the submission process (where asked about institutional funding). Use your ntnu.no email address.
Journals included	PLOS Complex Systems, PLOS Computational Biology, PLOS Digital Health, PLOS Genetics, PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, PLOS Pathogens, PLOS One, PLOS Medicine, PLOS Biology
Other/further information	More information at PLOS' web pages

Sage

Duration of agreement	1 Jan 2024 – 31 Dec 2025
Agreement includes	Read and Publish. This covers both APCs and read access for NTNU and St. Olavs hospital in the publisher's subsciption journals. APCs for NTNU in the publishers OA-journals.
Qualified authors	Corresponding authors affiliated with NTNU or St. Olavs hospital (subscription journals). Corresponding authors affiliated with NTNU (OA-journals).
Qualified articles	Peer reviewed articles where the manuscript is accepted for publication during the agreement period.
Licences available	Creative Commons CC BY is recommended.
How does it work?	State your affiliation with NTNU or St. Olavs hospital throughout Sage's publishing process. Use your ntnu.no or stolav.no email address. During the publishing process, Sage will make you aware of the possibility to publishing open access at no extra cost. Choose Open Access.
Journals included	Subscription journals by Sage 2025 (Excel-file) OA-journals by Sage 2025 (Excel-file)
Other/further information	More information at Sage's web pages and openscience.no

SciPost

Duration of agreement	1.1.2023-31.12.2025
Agreement includes	Membership. The membership fee is supposed to cover publishing costs in participating journals.
Qualified authors	All authors.
Qualified articles	All articles.
Licences available	Creative Commons CC BY
How does it work?
Journals included	13 journals from SciPost
Other/further information	More information at openscience.no

SCOAP3 (Sponsoring Consortium for OA Publishing in Particle Physics)

Duration of agreement	1 Jan 2022 - 31 Dec 2024
Agreement includes	Membership. The membership fee is supposed to cover publishing costs in participating journals.
Qualified authors	All authors.
Qualified articles	All articles.
Licences available	Creative Commons CC BY is recommended.
How does it work?
Journals included	11 journals within high energy physics
Other/further information	More information at SCOAP3's web pages

Springer Nature/BioMed Central (BMC)

Duration of agreement	1 Feb 2024 – 31 Dec 2025
Agreement includes	Covers APCs for NTNU and St. Olavs hospital. Covers APCs for NTNU and Helse Midt-Norge RHF in the OA-journals.
Qualified authors	Corresponding authors affiliated with NTNU or St. Olavs hospital. Corresponding authors affiliated with NTNU or Helse Midt-Norge RHF (OA-journals).
Qualified articles	Peer reviewed articles where the manuscript is accepted for publication during the agreement period.
Licences available	Creative Commons CC BY is recommended. The publisher may offer other licences. However, these are not accepted by Plan S and/or the new contract from the Research Council of Norway.
How does it work?	State your affiliation with NTNU or St. Olavs hospital throughout Springer's publishing process. Use your ntnu.no, helse-midt.no, stolav.no, helse-mr.no, hnt.no, sykeshusapoteket.no, or hemit.no email address. If you are asked to enter an "APC token during the process", you do not need to enter anything in this field.
Journals included	Subscription journals by Springer Nature 2025 (Excel-file) OA-journals by Springer Nature and BioMed Central (BMC) 2025 (Excel-file)
Other/further information	More information at Springer's web pages and openscience.no

Taylor & Francis

Duration of agreement	1 Jan 2024 – 31 Dec 2025
Agreement includes	Read and Publish. This covers both APCs and read access for NTNU and St. Olavs hospital in the publisher's subsciption journals. APCs for NTNU in the publisher's OA-journals.
Qualified authors	Corresponding authors affiliated with NTNU or St. Olavs hospital (subscription journals). Corresponding authors affiliated with NTNU (OA-journals).
Qualified articles	Peer reviewed articles where the manuscript is accepted for publication during the agreement period (‘Original research articles’).
Licences available	Creative Commons CC BY is recommended. The publisher may offer other licences. However, these are not accepted by Plan S and/or the new contract from the Research Council of Norway.
How does it work?	State your affiliation with NTNU or St. Olavs hospital throughout T&F's publishing process. Use your ntnu.no or stolav.no email address
Journals included	Subscription journals by T&F 2025 (Excel-file) OA-journals by T&F (Excel-file)
Other/further information	More information at T&F's web pages and openscience.no