APC (article processing charge) is usually charged to authors to make an article available open access either in a gold open access or in a hybrid open access journal. There are also open access journals which do not charge APCs. Find out if your faculty, discipline or project has funds for APCs. Also, take into account the possible APCs in your financing application.
As a part of the FinElib consortium Turku university researchers are eligible for either free open access publishing or for discounts on APCs in specific journals. In addition, University of Turku is part of the international SCOAP3 (Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics) consortium, which allows researchers to publish free of charge in the consortium journals. The university also has agreements with some publishers, which enable open access publishing without extra costs. In addition to this Turku university library has some Subscribe to Open journals. To be entitled to publish open access without extra costs or with a discounted price, the author's affiliation should be University of Turku or Turku University Hospital in the published article.
If publisher agrees on parallel publishing it is a possibility to make your research open without charges. More information https://utuguides.fi/utucris/en/selfarchiving.
Below you will find detailed guidelines for publisher-specific policies. Below each publisher, there is a link to more detailed instructions and additional information, which includes lists of journals included in the agreement and information about article types that are covered by agreement.
FinELib’s agreement with ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) allows authors from participating institutions to publish open access in ACM’s titles (journals, magazines, conference proceedings) at no additional charge during 1.7.2022-31.12.2024. The costs of OA publishing are covered by the agreement and paid for from Library budgets.
Instructions on open access publishing in ACM journals.
Information on open access publishing on publisher's pages.
Following the break in negotiations between FinELib and ACS, the University of Turku has decided to pay APC fees for ACS journals centrally on behalf of the authors during the period from 20 September to 31 December 2024. For accounting technical reasons, invoices must be sent with the correct invoicing information of the University. If there is an article whose APC payment would still be due in 2024, please contact OpenUTU (openutu@utu.fi) to get the correct invoicing information. The fee cannot be paid by credit card and subsequently requested back from the university.
FinELib’s collaboration with ACS ends.
Turku University Library has signed an agreement for the year 2024 with BMJ Publishing Group containing the possibility to publish articles open access without article processing charges in publisher’s 30 transformative journals and in the hybrid journals ADC: Education & Practice, Evidence-Based Nursing, Practical Neurology and European Journal of Hospital Pharmacy. Licence choice is either CC BY or CC BY-NC depending on the journal in question.
Information on open access publishing on publisher's pages.
Turku University Library has signed an agreement for University of Turku with Cambridge University Press containing the possibility to publish articles open access without article processing charges in the hybrid and gold titles of the Premium Full Journals collection.
The agreement covers years 2022-2024. Please note that the number of free articles available is limited.
Information on open access publishing on publisher's pages
Tool to find out if the journal is included in UTU agreement
Turku university library has made an agreement with Cogitatio Press which offers authors an opportunity to publish their articles open access without article processing charges. The agreement term is valid until 31 December 2025.
List of Cogitatio Press journals:
Media and Communication (ISSN 2183-2439)
Ocean and Society
Politics and Governance (ISSN 2183-2463)
Social Inclusion (ISSN 2183-2803)
Urban Planning (ISSN 2183-7635)
Information on open access publishing on publisher's pages.
Turku University Library has negotiated an agreement with Company of Biologists for University of Turku until the end of 2024. The agreement contains the right for the corresponding author affiliated to University of Turku to publish open access free of charge in these five journals: Development, Journal of Cell Science, Journal of Experimental Biology, Disease Models & Mechanisms and Biology Open.
When submitting the article, the author must indicate utu email address in the publisher's system and choose University of Turku as home organization. When the article is accepted, the author returns the publication agreement and receives by email a link to the RightsLink system, which provides the information for the article. A similar link is also sent to the library, where free open access publishing of the article is approved.
Instructions on open access publishing in CUP journals on publisher's pages.
Under FinELib consortium’s agreement with Elsevier, corresponding authors can publish their articles open access without article processing charge in Elsevier hybrid journals eligible for the agreement. There is a limited number of free open access articles available during the agreement period 2024-2025. The agreement also contains 15 % discount of APCs in Elsevier's gold open access journals.
University also subscribes to some additional Elsevier journals that are not included in FinELib consortium agreement. For more information, contact library@utu.fi about publishing article open access without article processing charge (APC).
Instructions on open access publishing in Elsevier journals.
Information on open access publishing on publisher's pages.
If you would like to handle the payment transactions for articles published in gold open access journals through the university's financial system, please include the billing details specified by the financial services with your APC request: the correct billing address and the appropriate payment reference. For further instructions, see this intranet page.
Under FinELib consortium’s agreement with Elsevier, corresponding authors can publish their articles open access without article processing charge (APC) in Cell Press hybrid journals eligible for the agreement.
There is a limited number of free open access articles available per year during the agreement period 2022-2024.
Instructions on open access publishing in Cell Press journals.
FinELib consortium’s agreement with Emerald offers authors an opportunity to publish their articles under the CC BY license with a free open access voucher. The agreement term is 1.1.2024–31.12.2024 and OA credits are limited in number.
Eligible articles of Turku University's affiliated authors accepted for publication in Emerald Premier journals in January 2024 can be covered by agreement retrospectively and paywalled articles can be converted to open access. APCs should no be paid in order to have them covered by FinELib agreement.
Instructions on open access publishing in Emerald journals.
Information on open access publishing on publisher's pages.
Turku University Library has signed an agreement with Future Science Group for the years 2024-2025. The agreement contains possibility to publish articles open access without extra charge in publisher's 17 hybrid journals and 16 full OA journals. Nearly all article types are covered.
Information on open access publishing on publisher's pages.
FinELib consortium's agreement with IEEE for the term 2024-2025 allows authors to publish open access without APCs. Eligible articles of Turku University's affiliated authors accepted for publication in January 2024 can be covered by agreement retrospectively and paywalled articles can be converted to open access. APCs should no be paid in order to have them covered by FinELib agreement.
Instructions on open access publishing in IEEE journals.
IEEE's own OA Guide for Authors.
As part of MDPI institutional open access program, University of Turku affiliated authors receive a 10 % discount on article processing charges (APCs) and on charges associated with open access book publishing with MDPI (BPCs). The agreement is valid until 28.2.2025.
Authors will also receive 15 % discount on Language Editing Services.
Instructions on open access publishing in MDPI journals on publisher's pages.
FinELib’s agreement with OUP allows authors from participating institutions to publish open access in OUP’s hybrid journals at no additional charge during the agreement period 2024-2025. The agreement also contains 15 % discount of APCs in OUP fully open access journals.
Instructions on open access publishing in OUP journals.
Information on open access publishing on publisher's pages.
RADIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF NORTH AMERICA
The agreement with Radiological Society of North America negotiated by Turku University Library continues until the end of 2024. The agreement contains the right for the corresponding author affiliated to University of Turku to publish Open Access free of charge in the journals Radiology, Radiology: Artificial Intelligence, Radiology: Cardiothoracic Imaging and Radiology: Imaging Cancer. The agreement covers also other possible service fees such as color-in-print.
Instructions on open access publishing in RSNA on publisher's pages.
FinELib consortium’s agreement with Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) enables the researchers to publish their articles open access at no additional charge in RCS’s Full OA and hybrid journals during the agreement term 2024–2025. Regarding Full OA journals the agreement only covers year 2024 for now.
Instructions on open access publishing in RSC journals.
Information on open access publishing on publisher's pages.
Turku University Library has signed an agreement with Royal Society Publishing. Researcher gets a 25 % discount on APC when publishing in certain journal and when the submitting author is designated as the corresponding author. The agreement term is 1.4.2024—31.3.2025.
List of journals:
Biology Letters
Interface Focus
Journal of the Royal Society Interface
Notes and Records of the Royal Society
Open Biology
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Science
Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Royal Society Open Science
Information on oepn access publishing on publisher's pages.
The agreement between FinELib and SAGE for the years 2023-2024 contains the possibility for the researchers of the participating insitutions to publish their articles open access with a CC BY license
Instructions on open access publishing in SAGE journals.
Information on open access publishing on publisher's pages.
The agreement between FinELib and AAAS for the years 2023-2024 enables self-archiving of the AAM version of the peer-reviewed research articles published in certain Science journals. The students and staff of University of Turku can self-archive AAMs with CC-BY licence without embargo in Turku University repository. The agreement also contains a 15 % discount of APC when publishing in full OA journal Science Advances.
Science journals that allow self-archiving of AAM version without embargo:
Science Online
Science Signaling
Science Translational Medicine
Science Immunology
Science Robotics
Instructions on open access publishing in the journal Science Advances.
The library participates in the costs in 2023-2024 to allow researchers at the University of Turku to publish their articles free of charge in these journals.
FinELib consortium’s agreement with Springer Nature includes open access publishing in Springer's hybrid titles in Compact collection (see journals list) during the agreement term 1.1.2024–31.12.2025.
The corresponding author does not need to pay an APC (article processing charge). The charges are covered by the agreement.
Instructions on open access publishing in Springer Nature journals.
Information on open access publishing on publisher's pages.
FinELib consortium’s agreement with Springer Nature included open access publishing in Nature Research hybrid titles during the agreement term 1.6.2022-31.12.2024. Please note that number of free articles available was limited and they have now run out.
Instructions on open access publishing in Nature Research journals.
Open publishing quota in Taylor & Francis journals has come to an end, but free open publishing continues.
Researchers at the University of Turku can still publish their articles for free as open access in several Taylor & Francis journals until the end of the year 2024, even though the article quota under the agreement with FinELib has ended. The university aims to cover the Article Processing Charges (APCs) for the remainder of the year.
The agreement between FinELib and Taylor & Francis, allowing researchers at the University of Turku to publish their articles openly without additional fees, will end at the end of 2024. Negotiations for a new agreement for 2025 are underway. The current agreement has a limited number of open articles, and the article quota ran out last Friday (29th November).
Thanks to arrangements at the University of Turku, authors can still publish their articles open access in many Taylor & Francis journals free of charge even after this. According to current calculations, the funds allocated for this purpose may last until the end of the year, but there is no absolute certainty about that.
The publishing process for authors will function in the same way as before, and the right to open publishing applies to the same journals as in the FinELib agreement. When a corresponding author states their affiliation as the University of Turku, they will not be charged an APC fee for the article published OA. Taylor & Francis will notify the library by email that the author has chosen open access publishing, and the author's affiliation will be verified by the library. Please note that the agreement does not include all Taylor & Francis journals, e.g. most medical journals and Full OA journals are excluded.
The list of journals included can be found on the FinELib website.
Any questions can be sent to openutu@utu.fi
Information on open access publishing on publisher's pages.
The publisher Taylor & Francis offers authors a chance to publish their e-books OA retrospectively. Researchers who have published e-books or e-book chapters with Taylor & Francis can contact the publisher if they wish to pay discounted Book Processing Charges. The size of the discount percent depends on the publishing date. The BPC for books, which have been published for over one year ago, is reduced by 30 %, for books over two years ago by 50 %, and for books older than three years 70 %. Researchers cover the costs of publishing OA retrospectively themselves.
For more information, please contact NinaKatarina.Stular@tandf.co.uk.
Information on open access publishing of books on publisher's pages.
Wiley's open publishing quota is coming to an end, but free open publishing continues.
Researchers at the University of Turku can still publish their articles for free as open access in Wiley journals until the end of the year 2024, even though the article quota under the agreement with FinELib is ending. The university aims to cover the Article Processing Charges (APCs) for the remainder of the year.
The agreement between FinELib and Wiley, allowing researchers at the University of Turku to publish their articles openly without additional fees, will end at the end of 2024. Negotiations for a new agreement for 2025 are underway. The current agreement has a limited number of open articles, and the article quota is gradually running out.
Thanks to arrangements at the University of Turku, authors can still publish their articles open access in Wiley journals free of charge even after this. According to current calculations, the funds allocated for this purpose may last until the end of the year, but there is no absolute certainty about that.
The publishing process for authors will function in the same way as before, and the right to open publishing applies to the same journals as in the FinELib agreement. When a corresponding author states their affiliation as the University of Turku, they will not be charged an APC fee for the article published OA. Wiley will notify the library by email that the author has chosen open access publishing, and the author's affiliation will be verified by the library."
The list of journals included can be found on the FinELib website.
Any questions can be sent to openutu@utu.fi.
Information on open access publishing on publisher's pages.
FinELib's agreement with Wolters Kluwer for the years 2023-2024 enables OA publishing without extra charge for the researchers of University of Turku in Lippincott's Total access minus Neurology collection journals. If an author makes a request to the publisher about articles published during the early part of the year when the agreement was not in force
With questions concerning APC refunds, please contact WK Customer Support (oa-support@wolterskluwer.com).
There is a limited number of OA articles available during the agreement period.
Instructions on open access publishing in Wolters Kluwer journals.
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