Agreements with prepaid publishing fees, APC's
The library has agreements with publishers where the publishing fees / APC's are prepaid for researchers at Karolinska Institutet.
These publishers are listed here. Please click on the publisher name to find author instructions and information about the specific agreement. You can also see which journals are included in the Open Access/APC Checker Tool.
Terms for all the agreements:
- You need to be the corresponding author.
- You need to be affiliated with KI and you should also state this in the article.
- The research should have been predominantly conducted at KI.
- Use your email address ending with @ki.se and enter Karolinska Institutet as your institution to facilitate identification.
Terms for the agreement
- You need to be the corresponding author.
- You need to be affiliated with KI and you should also state this in the article.
- The research should have been predominantly conducted at KI.
- Use your email address ending with @ki.se and enter Karolinska Institutet as your institution to facilitate identification.
Author instructions
Open Access touch-free quick guide for ACS
Which journals are included in the agreement?
All journals published by ACS (about 60) are available for publishing and reading.
To see which titles are included in the agreement, search the Open Access / APC Checker Tool. Keep in mind that there might be changes to the title list during the year.
What is not included in the agreement?
Please note that other charges such as page charges or color figures are not included!
Publishing licences
Your article will be published under CC-BY licence. More information about CC-BY licences.
Publication support
Contact us with questions regarding open access, KI's publishing agreements, bibliometrics, publishing in KI Open Archive and strategic publishing.
Terms for the agreement
- From 2024, only AMA's two fully open access journals (JAMA Network Open and JAMA Health Forum) are included in the agreement. For the other AMA journals you can instead self-archive a copy of your article directly upon publishing.
- You need to be the corresponding author.
- You need to be affiliated with KI and you should also state this in the article.
- The research should have been predominantly conducted at KI.
- Use your email address ending with @ki.se and enter Karolinska Institutet as your institution to facilitate identification.
Which journals are included in the agreement?
From 2024 the agreement only covers the two fully open access journals, JAMA Network Open and JAMA Health Forum. For the other AMA journals you have the possibility to self-archive your article directly upon publication.
Article types covered by the agreement
- Research articles
- Original investigations
- Research letters
- Brief reports
- Consensus statements
- Special communications
Publishing licenses
Your article is published under a CC-BY or CC-BY-NC-ND license. More information about CC-BY licenses.
Publication support
Contact us with questions regarding open access, KI's publishing agreements, bibliometrics, publishing in KI Open Archive and strategic publishing.
Terms for the agreement
- You need to be the corresponding author.
- You need to be affiliated with KI and you should also state this in the article.
- The research should have been predominantly conducted at KI.
- Use your email address ending with @ki.se and enter Karolinska Institutet as your institution to facilitate identification.
Author instructions
Infomation to authors from Portland Press
Which journals are included in the agreement?
- Biochemical Journal
- Biochemical Society Transactions
- Clinical Science
- Essays in Biochemistry
- Emerging Topics in Life Sciences
- Neuronal Signaling (fully open access)
- Bioscience Reports (fully open access)
Which article types are included in the agreement?
All types of articles are included.
Publishing licences
Authors can choose either a CC-BY or a CC-BY-NC-ND licence according to their wish. More information about CC-BY licences.
Publication support
Contact us with questions regarding open access, KI's publishing agreements, bibliometrics, publishing in KI Open Archive and strategic publishing.
Terms for the agreement
- You need to be the corresponding author.
- You need to be affiliated with KI and you should also state this in the article.
- The research should have been predominantly conducted at KI.
- Use your email address ending with @ki.se and enter Karolinska Institutet as your institution to facilitate identification.
- Note the article types included, different depending on type of journal, see below for information.
Author instructions
Which journals are included in the agreement?
The agreement covers about 50 journals from BMJ's standard collection, whereof about half are fully open access journals and the other half are hybrid journals.
To see which titles are included in the agreement, search the Open Access / APC Checker Tool. Keep in mind that there might be changes to the title list during the year.
Article types covered by the agreement
- Research articles (included in fully open access journals and hybrid journals)
- Other article types might be included, depending on the journal, please contact the library for more information.
What is not included in the agreement?
Please note that other charges such as page charges or color figures are not included!
Publishing licences
CC-BY-license is the default license with BMJ but some journals only offer CC-BY-NC. More information about CC-BY licenses.
Publication support
Contact us with questions regarding open access, KI's publishing agreements, bibliometrics, publishing in KI Open Archive and strategic publishing.
Terms for the agreement
- You need to be the corresponding author.
- You need to be affiliated with KI and you should also state this in the article.
- The research should have been predominantly conducted at KI.
- Use your email address ending with @ki.se and enter Karolinska Institutet as your institution to facilitate identification.
Author instructions
Information to authors from Cambridge University Press.
Which journals are included in the agreement?
The agreement covers publishing in about 400 hybrid- and fully open access journals.
To see which titles are included in the agreement, search the Open Access / APC Checker Tool. Keep in mind that there might be changes to the title list during the year.
Which article types are included in the agreement?
- Research articles
- Review articles
- Rapid communications
- Brief reports
- Case reports
What is not included in the agreement?
Please note that other charges such as page charges or color figures are not included!
Publishing licences
CC-BY is standard. Cambridge also offers CC-BY-NC-SA and CC-BY-NC-ND but these are exceptions. More information about CC-BY licences.
Publication support
Contact us with questions regarding open access, KI's publishing agreements, bibliometrics, publishing in KI Open Archive and strategic publishing.
Terms for the agreement
- You need to be the corresponding author.
- You need to be affiliated with KI and you should also state this in the article.
- The research should have been predominantly conducted at KI.
- Use your email address ending with @ki.se.
Author instructions
Author's affiliation is checked by e-mail address! Authors must use their email address with a domain address belonging to Karolinska institutet.
Guide to authors from the publisher
Which journals are included in the agreement?
All 5 journals from the publisher are included.
To see which titles are included in the agreement, search the Open Access / APC Checker Tool. Keep in mind that there might be changes to the title list during the year.
Which article types are included?
All article types are included.
What is not included in the agreement?
Please note that other charges such as page charges or color figures are not included!
Publishing licences
Your article will be published under CC-BY licence. More information about CC-BY licences.
Publication support
Contact us with questions regarding open access, KI's publishing agreements, bibliometrics, publishing in KI Open Archive and strategic publishing.
Terms for the agreement
- You need to be the corresponding author.
- You need to be affiliated with KI and you should also state this in the article.
- The research should have been predominantly conducted at KI.
- Use your email address ending with @ki.se and enter Karolinska Institutet as your institution to facilitate identification.
Author instructions
Author instructions from Elsevier.
Which journals are covered by the agreement?
- Elsevier titles, Cell Press titles and society journals.
- The Lancet fully open access titles: Digital Health, The Lancet Global Health, The Lancet Planetary Health, The Lancet Public Health, EBioMedicine, EClinicalMedicine.
To see all the titles included in the agreement, search the Open Access / APC Checker Tool. Keep in mind that there might be changes to the title list during the year.
What is not included in the agreement?
Please note that other charges such as page charges or color figures are not included!
Article types covered by the agreement:
- PIT=CRP — Case Report
- PIT=DAT — Data in brief
- PIT=FLA — Full-length article
- PIT=MIC — Microarticle
- PIT=OSP — Original software publication
- PIT=PGL — Practice Guidelines
- PIT=PRO — Protocol
- PIT=REV (journals) — Review article (not books reviews)
- PIT=RPL — Replication Studies
- PIT=SCO — Short communication
- PIT=SSU — Short review
Publishing licences
The agreement allows publishing with CC-BY licence or another open licence, according to the author's wishes. More information about CC-BY licences.
Publication support
Contact us with questions regarding open access, KI's publishing agreements, bibliometrics, publishing in KI Open Archive and strategic publishing.
Terms for the agreement
- You need to be the corresponding author.
- You need to be affiliated with KI and you should also state this in the article.
- The research should have been predominantly conducted at KI.
- Use your email address ending with @ki.se and enter Karolinska Institutet as your institution to facilitate identification.
- The agreement covers articles accepted from 1 January 2024.
Author instructions
All corresponding authors that are affiliated to an institution that is part of the Bibsam-agreement (for example KI) will be included automatically in the agreement. The APC:s are paid for by the research funders Swedish Research Council, Forte, Formas and Vinnova.
Which journals are included in the agreement?
The agreement covers publishing in all of Frontiers' journals. To see which titles are included in the agreement, search the Open Access / APC Checker Tool.
Which article types are included in the agreement?
All article types are included.
Publishing licences
Articles will be published with a CC-BY licence. More information about CC-BY licences.
Publication support
Contact us with questions regarding open access, KI's publishing agreements, bibliometrics, publishing in KI Open Archive and strategic publishing.
Terms for the agreement
- You need to be the corresponding author.
- You need to be affiliated with KI and you should also state this in the article.
- The research should have been predominantly conducted at KI.
- Use your email address ending with @ki.se and enter Karolinska Institutet as your institution to facilitate identification.
Author instructions
Which journals are included in the agreement?
The agreement covers publishing in all of the publishers' journals, about 10 are fully open access journals and about 60 are hybrid journals.
To see which titles are included in the agreement, search the Open Access / APC Checker Tool. Keep in mind that there might be changes to the title list during the year.
Article types covered in the agreement
- Paper
- Special issue paper
- Review
- Letter
What is not included in the agreement?
Please note that other charges such as page charges or color figures are not included!
Publishing licences
IOP uses Creative Commons license Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY). More information about CC-BY-licences.
Publication support
Contact us with questions regarding open access, KI's publishing agreements, bibliometrics, publishing in KI Open Archive and strategic publishing.
Terms for the agreement
- You need to be the corresponding author.
- You need to be affiliated with KI and you should also state this in the article.
- The research should have been predominantly conducted at KI.
- Use your email address ending with @ki.se and enter Karolinska Institutet as your institution to facilitate identification.
Author instructions
Author instructions from IOS Press
Which journals are included in the agreement?
To see which titles are included in the agreement, search the Open Access / APC Checker Tool. Keep in mind that there might be changes to the title list during the year.
Article types covered by the agreement
All kinds of articles are included.
What is not included in the agreement?
Please note that other charges such as page charges or color figures are not included!
Publishing licences
IOS uses Creative Commons license Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY). More information about CC-BY-licences.
Publication support
Contact us with questions regarding open access, KI's publishing agreements, bibliometrics, publishing in KI Open Archive and strategic publishing.
Terms for the agreement
- You need to be the corresponding author.
- You need to be affiliated with KI and you should also state this in the article.
- The research should have been predominantly conducted at KI.
- Use your email address ending with @ki.se and enter Karolinska Institutet as your institution to facilitate identification.
Author instructions
Instruction from Karger – how to submit your paper.
Which journals are included in the agreement?
The agreement covers a little over 100 journals, whereof about 70 are hybrid journals and the rest are fully open access journals.
To see which titles are included in the agreement, search the Open Access / APC Checker Tool. Keep in mind that there might be changes to the title list during the year.
Article types covered by the agreement
All article types are included.
What is not included in the agreement?
Please note that other charges such as page charges or color figures are not included!
Publishing licences
CC-BY-NC is the default licence with Karger but other CC-BY-licences can also be chosen. More information about CC-BY licences.
Publication support
Contact us with questions regarding open access, KI's publishing agreements, bibliometrics, publishing in KI Open Archive and strategic publishing.
Terms for the agreement
- You need to be the corresponding author.
- You need to be affiliated with KI and you should also state this in the article.
- The research should have been predominantly conducted at KI.
- Use your email address ending with @ki.se and enter Karolinska Institutet as your institution to facilitate identification.
Author instructions
Author instructions from Mark Allen
Which journals are included in the agreement?
To see which titles are included in the agreement, search the Open Access / APC Checker Tool. Keep in mind that there might be changes to the title list during the year.
What is not included in the agreement?
Please note that other charges such as page charges or color figures are not included!
Publishing licences
Mark Allen Healthcare only offers CC-BY-NC. More information about CC-BY licenses.
Publication support
Contact us with questions regarding open access, KI's publishing agreements, bibliometrics, publishing in KI Open Archive and strategic publishing.
Terms for the agreement
- You need to be the corresponding author.
- You need to be affiliated with KI and you should also state this in the article.
- The research should have been predominantly conducted at KI.
- Use your email address ending with @ki.se and enter Karolinska Institutet as your institution to facilitate identification.
Author instructions
All corresponding authors that are affiliated to an institution that is part of the Bibsam-agreement (for example KI) will be included automatically in the agreement. The APC:s are paid for by the research funders Swedish Research Council, Forte, Formas and Vinnova.
Which journals are included in the agreement?
The agreement includes all journals from the publisher.
You can find the journals by searching in the Open Access/APC Checker Tool.
Article types covered by the agreement
All article types are included.
Publishing licences
CC-BY-license is the default license in this agreement. More information about CC-BY-licences.
Publication support
Contact us with questions regarding open access, KI's publishing agreements, bibliometrics, publishing in KI Open Archive and strategic publishing.
Terms for the agreement
- You need to be the corresponding author.
- You need to be affiliated with KI and you should also state this in the article.
- The research should have been predominantly conducted at KI.
- Use your email address ending with @ki.se.
Author instructions
Author's affiliation is checked by e-mail address. Authors must use their email address with KI:s domain address.
Instructions to authors from the publisher.
Which journals are included in the agreement?
All 6 journals from the publisher are included.
To see which titles are included in the agreement, search the Open Access / APC Checker Tool. Keep in mind that there might be changes to the title list during the year.
Which article types are included?
All primary research papers (papers, special issue papers, reviews and letters) are included.
What is not included in the agreement?
Please note that other charges such as page charges or color figures are not included!
Publishing licences
Your article will be published under CC-BY licence but the publisher also offer CC-BY-NC. More information about CC-BY licences.
Publication support
Contact us with questions regarding open access, KI's publishing agreements, bibliometrics, publishing in KI Open Archive and strategic publishing.
Terms for the agreement
- You need to be the corresponding author.
- You need to be affiliated with KI and you should also state this in the article.
- The research should have been predominantly conducted at KI.
- Use your email address ending with @ki.se and enter Karolinska Institutet as your institution to facilitate identification.
Author instructions
There are author instructions at each journal's homepage but a more general instruction is under way.
Which journals are included in the agreement?
The agreement covers publishing in 35 journals from Nature Journals.
To see which titles are included in the agreement search the Open Access / APC Checker Tool. Keep in mind that there might be changes to the title list during the year.
Which article types are included in the agreement?
Original Papers or Standard articles, usually presenting new results; articles published under this article type may also be referred to as:
• Analysis
• Article
• Letter
• Brief Communication
• Registered Report
• Resource
• Technical Report
Publishing licences
CC-BY is standard for Nature Journals. More information about CC-BY licences.
Publication support
Contact us with questions regarding open access, KI's publishing agreements, bibliometrics, publishing in KI Open Archive and strategic publishing.
Terms for the agreement
- You need to be the corresponding author.
- You need to be affiliated with KI and you should also state this in the article.
- The research should have been predominantly conducted at KI.
- Use your email address ending with @ki.se and enter Karolinska Institutet as your institution to facilitate identification.
Author instructions
Information to authors from Oxford University Press
Which journals are included in the agreement?
The agreement covers publishing in about 370 hybrid journals and about 110 fully open access journals.
To see which titles are included in the agreement, search the Open Access / APC Checker Tool. Keep in mind that there might be changes to the title list during the year.
What article types are included in the agreement?
The agreement covers peer-reviewed research articles of the types "research article", "review article", "brief report" and "case report".
What is not included in the agreement?
Please note that other charges such as page charges or color figures are not included!
Publishing licences
CC-BY is standard with Oxford University Press but you may also choose CC-BY-NC or CC-BY-NC-ND. More information about CC-BY-licences.
Publication support
Contact us with questions regarding open access, KI's publishing agreements, bibliometrics, publishing in KI Open Archive and strategic publishing.
Terms for the agreement
- You need to be the corresponding author.
- You need to be affiliated with KI and you should also state this in the article.
- The research should have been predominantly conducted at KI.
- Use your email address ending with @ki.se and enter Karolinska Institutet as your institution to facilitate identification.
- Please note that the agreement covers articles accepted from 1 February 2024.
Author instructions
All corresponding authors that are affiliated to an institution that is part of the Bibsam-agreement (for example KI) will be included automatically in the agreement. The APC:s are paid for by the research funders Swedish Research Council, Forte, Formas and Vinnova.
PLOS has made a video that describes the process for taking part of the agreement: Submitting in Editorial Manager for APC-free publishing.mp4 on Vimeo
Which journals are included in the agreement?
The agreement covers publishing in all of PLOS' journals. To see which titles are included in the agreement, search the Open Access / APC Checker Tool.
Which article types are included in the agreement?
All article types are included.
Publishing licences
Articles will be published with a CC-BY 4.0 licence. More information about CC-BY licences.
Publication support
Contact us with questions regarding open access, KI's publishing agreements, bibliometrics, publishing in KI Open Archive and strategic publishing.
Terms for the agreement
- You need to be the corresponding author.
- You need to be affiliated with KI and you should also state this in the article.
- The research should have been predominantly conducted at KI.
- Use your email address ending with @ki.se and enter Karolinska Institutet as your institution to facilitate identification.
Author instructions
Author instructions from Royal Society of Chemistry
Which journals are included in the agreement?
To see which titles are included in the agreement, search the Open Access / APC Checker Tool. Keep in mind that there might be changes to the title list during the year.
What is not included in the agreement?
Please note that other charges such as page charges or color figures are not included!
Publishing licences
Authors can choose either a CC-BY or a CC-BY-NC licence according to their wish. More information about CC-BY licences.
Publication support
Contact us with questions regarding open access, KI's publishing agreements, bibliometrics, publishing in KI Open Archive and strategic publishing.
Terms for the agreement
- You need to be the corresponding author.
- You need to be affiliated with KI and you should also state this in the article.
- The research should have been predominantly conducted at KI.
- Use your email address ending with @ki.se and enter Karolinska Institutet as your institution to facilitate identification.
Author instructions
Which journals are included in the agreement?
The agreement covers about 1150 hybrid- and fully open access journals from Sage and about 20 hybrid journals from the Royal Society of Medicine. Please note that for the fully open access titles from RSM there is a discount of 20% on the APC.
To see which titles are included in the agreement, search the Open Access / APC Checker Tool. Keep in mind that there might be changes to the title list during the year.
Which article types are included in the agreement?
- Original research papers
- Review papers
- Brief communications
- Short reports
- Case reports
What is not included in the agreement?
Please note that other charges such as page charges or color figures are not included!
Publishing licences
CC-BY is the standard licence with Sage and RSM, contact the publisher if you want another licence. More information about CC-BY licences.
Publication support
Contact us with questions regarding open access, KI's publishing agreements, bibliometrics, publishing in KI Open Archive and strategic publishing.
Terms for the agreement
- You need to be the corresponding author.
- You need to be affiliated with KI and you should also state this in the article.
- The research should have been predominantly conducted at KI.
- Use your email address ending with @ki.se and enter Karolinska Institutet as your institution to facilitate identification.
Author instructions
Which journals are included in the agreement?
The agreement covers publishing in about 1 950 hybrid journals from Springer.
To see which titles are included in the agreement search the Open Access / APC Checker Tool. Keep in mind that there might be changes to the title list during the year.
Which article types are included in the agreement?
- Original paper (including Study Protocols)
- Review paper
- Brief communication
- Continuing education
What is not included in the agreement?
Please note that other charges such as page charges or color figures are not included!
Publishing licences
The agreement allows publishing with CC-BY licence. More information about CC-BY licences.
Publication support
Contact us with questions regarding open access, KI's publishing agreements, bibliometrics, publishing in KI Open Archive and strategic publishing.
Terms for the agreement
- You need to be the corresponding author.
- You need to be affiliated with KI and you should also state this in the article.
- The research should have been predominantly conducted at KI.
- Use your email address ending with @ki.se and enter Karolinska Institutet as your institution to facilitate identification.
Author instructions
- Information to authors from Springer Nature
- Please note! When submitting articles to any of BMC's journals, KI is not available among the institutions listed. It is not until your article is accepted that you can choose KI as your affiliation. Until then you should choose to accept to pay for the APC. Read more in BMC's submission guidelines (pdf).
Which journals are included in the agreement?
The agreement covers publishing in about 445 fully open access journals.
To see which titles are included in the agreement search the Open Access / APC Checker Tool. Keep in mind that there might be changes to the title list during the year.
Which article types are included in the agreement?
- Original paper (including Study Protocols)
- Review paper
- Brief communication
- Continuing education
What is not included in the agreement?
Please note that other charges such as page charges or color figures are not included!
Publishing licences
The agreement allows publishing with CC-BY licence. More information about CC-BY licences.
Publication support
Contact us with questions regarding open access, KI's publishing agreements, bibliometrics, publishing in KI Open Archive and strategic publishing.
Terms for the agreement
- You need to be the corresponding author.
- You need to be affiliated with KI and you should also state this in the article.
- The research should have been predominantly conducted at KI.
- Use your email address ending with @ki.se and enter Karolinska Institutet as your institution to facilitate identification.
Author instructions
Which journals are included in the agreement?
The agreement covers publishing in about 2200 hybrid journals and about 300 fully open access journals.
To see which titles are included in the agreement, search the Open Access / APC Checker Tool. Keep in mind that there might be changes to the title list during the year.
Which article types are included in the agreement?
- Article
- Research article
- Review
- Review Article
- Brief Report
What is not included in the agreement?
Please note that other charges such as page charges or color figures are not included!
Publishing licences
CC-BY, Taylor & Francis also offers CC-BY-NC-ND. More information about CC-BY licences.
Publication support
Contact us with questions regarding open access, KI's publishing agreements, bibliometrics, publishing in KI Open Archive and strategic publishing.
Terms for the agreement
- You need to be the corresponding author.
- You need to be affiliated with KI and you should also state this in the article.
- The research should have been predominantly conducted at KI.
- Use your email address ending with @ki.se and enter Karolinska Institutet as your institution to facilitate identification.
Author instructions
Author instructions from Wiley
Which journals are included in the agreement?
The agreement covers publishing in about 1350 hybrid journals and over 260 fully open access journals from Wiley and about 250 fully open access journals from Hindawi.
To see which titles are included in the agreement, search the Open Access / APC Checker Tool. Keep in mind that there might be changes to the title list during the year.
Which article types are included in the agreement?
- Original article
- Review article
What is not included in the agreement?
Please note that other charges such as page charges or color figures are not included!
Publishing licences
You can choose an open license. More information about CC licences.
Publication support
Contact us with questions regarding open access, KI's publishing agreements, bibliometrics, publishing in KI Open Archive and strategic publishing.
Publishers and journals offering discounts
The library also has agreements that give researchers at Karolinska Institutet discounts on the publishing fees they pay themselves.
PNAS: If you choose to publish your article with immediate open access in PNAS,(Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences) you are entitled to a $500 discount on the total Article Processing Charge via the library’s subscription. You will need to inform the publisher that you are entitled to this discount in order for it to be applied. You can find additional information on PNAS and Publication Charges.
Royal Society of Medicine: RSM offers a 20 % discount on the publishing charge in their fully open access journals. When you as a corresponding author get your article accepted in any of the fully OA journals the APC will be discounted automatically.
Publication support
Contact us with questions regarding open access, KI's publishing agreements, bibliometrics, publishing in KI Open Archive and strategic publishing.
If you would like us to get back to you, please submit your contact information in the form below along with your feeback.