Open Access publishing

Open access agreements

VID has open access agreements with several publishers. Such agreements are also known as "publish and read" (PAR) agreements.

• The agreements apply to free publication in hybrid journals.
• The agreements apply to peer-reviewed articles in approved publishing channels, accepted for publication during the agreement period.
• The first author or corresponding author must be affiliated with VID.
• Authors must name VID as affiliation and use VID email address through the publication process.

In Kanalregisteret (Norwegian Register for Scientific Journals, Series and Publishers) you can check which publishers and which agreements a journal belongs to.

Several agreements give at discount on the author publication fee (APC) in open access journals (gold open access). In these cases, you must apply for support from the publication fund (see below).

Publication fund

In order to publish Open Access, an article processing charge (APC) must be paid. This is covered by either the author of the article or a credited institution. Academic staff at VID can apply for financial support to publish Open Access from VID’s publication fund.

Free publication in a hybrid journal via PAR agreements should be considered before an application is submitted to the publication fund.

• Support is only provided for publication in approved publication channels and the application must be academically justified.
• Support can be applied for for the publication of scientific articles, chapters, anthologies and monographs.
• The first author, corresponding author or editor must be affiliated with VID.

Send your questions to openaccess@vid.no.