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.

Publishers and journals offering discounts

The library also has agreements that give researchers at Karolinska Institutet discounts on the publishing fees they pay themselves.

ASM (American Society for Microbiology) : six titles from the publisher ASM are without an Article Processing Charge. They instead have page charges. There is a discount on the page charges since KI has a subscription. If you are a personal member of ASM there is an even larger discount. The cost per page is $158 with the KI discount, and $79 if you also have a personal membership. Supplemental material also has a charge, with KI discount it amounts to $278 (fixed fee), and if you have a personal membership the fee is $180.

The titles are:
•    Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy
•    Applied and Environmental Microbiology
•    Infection and Immunity
•    Journal of Bacteriology
•    Journal of Clinical Microbiology
•    Journal of Virology

Please inform ASM of your KI affiliation and of any personal membership.
Find out more in the publishers FAQ.

APS (The American Physiological Society): The publisher APS uses a Subscribe to Open model (S2O) for ten of its journals. This model means that authors pay no publication fee as long as KI has a subscription to the journals. However, the publisher charges a "flat fee" for accepted manuscripts. For individual members of APS the cost is $895 and for non-members the cost is $975. 

The titles included are:

KI-affiliated authors are identified at APS using the ROR-ID, state KI's ROR-ID when in contact with the publisher: ROR ID: 056D84691.

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.

 

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Contact us with questions regarding open access, KI's publishing agreements, bibliometrics, publishing in KI Open Archive and strategic publishing. 

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Last updated: 2025-01-17