Open Access publishing

Read about open access and publishing at openscience.no. Send your questions to openaccess@vid.no.

Copyright and licenses

When you publish a scientific work openly, you need to use an open license. It's most common to use a Creative Commons (CC) license for this purpose. Read more about CC licenses on the Plan S website.

Open access agreements

VID has open access agreements (read and publish agreements) with Cambridge University Press, Elsevier, Sage, Springer and Taylor & Francis.

• The agreements apply to free publication in hybrid journals.
• Several agreements give at discount on the author publication fee (APC) in open access journals (gold open access).
• The agreements apply to peer-reviewed articles accepted for publication within the agreement period.
• Corresponding authors must have VID as their home institution.
• 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.

Publication fund for VID researchers

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 publishing fund.