Overview of the agreements
The deal with Wiley was not continued after 2024. Consequently, the possibility for free Open Access publishing in the Wiley hybrid journals is not available.
Researchers can still choose to publish in Wiley journals. Now that INN is without an agreement, the recommendation is to publish articles closed. This means that individual authors do not pay a publishing fee (APC) for single articles.
You can still apply for funding from the INN publication fund to publish in Wiley's fully open access journals.
The agreements with Taylor & Francis, Sage, Elsevier and Springer are renewed for 2026.
The agreements with Frontiers and MDPI that provide a 10% discount on publication fees will also be continued.
How to find journals that are included in a deal
There are different agreements with different publishers. There are two ways to check if a journal is part of an agreement with INN:
- Search for the journal in the Norwegian register of scientific publishing channels - if a journal is part of a publishing agreement, you should check whether INN is part of this agreement.
- Overview of all publishing agreements - View overview of all Norwegian publishing agreements coordinated by SIKT: who participates in the various agreements, and which journals are included.
What is a publishing deal?
Some of the agreements cover the publication fee (article processing charge) in full for the researchers at INN. Some agreements provide a discount on the publication fee.
The agreements with the publishers do not include all of the publisher's journals. With certain publishers, we have an agreement that allows us free publishing in hybrid journals, but we must pay the publication fee in their pure open access journals (gold open access).
Most publishers inform you of the possibility that the article can be made freely available openly when you register the article with them.
The corresponding author must be an employee or student at INN (University of Inland Norway or Universitetet i Innlandet), and the author must credit INN as his/hers affiliation in the article.
When publishing in journals covered by an agreement but where a publication fee must be paid, the criteria of INNs publication fund apply, but there is no need to apply to INN's publication fund to have the publication fee covered.
The Publishing fund supports a maximum of 5 publishing fees per employee per calendar year, and this includes article processing charges for articles in journals on the publishers MDPI and Frontiers.
The Agreements
Cambridge University Press
The agreement runs to 31 December 2027
The agreement with CUP is a publish and read agreement. It covers articles with a corresponding author who is affiliated with INN or one of the other participating institutions in Sikt's consortium agreement. Publishing in all of the publisher's journals, both hybrid and gold, is included in the agreement.
Elsevier
The agreement runs to 31 December 2027
On Elsevier's web page Elsevier-Unit Agreement you will find a "journal search tool" showing titles eligible for the agreement.
The agreement includes articles with a corresponding author from INN in journals that are included in the agreement. This means, among other things, unlimited open publication in the publisher's hybrid journals and a discount on publication in the gold journals.
Author publishing workflow
- Workflow if the institution covers gold publishing
- Workflow if the institution not covers gold publishing
Emerald
Emerald is not a publish-and read agreement, but offers green open access: the agreement gives authors from INN the opportunity to archive the accepted manuscript of the article published in an Emerald journal in INN's digital archive Brage, free of charge and immediately from the date of publication.
Authors from INN also receive a 10% discount on publication fees (APC) in pure open access journals.
Frontiers
This agreement runs to the 31st of December 2025.
Researchers at INN can publish in Frontiers' journals with a 10% discount on publication fees. INN pays the entire publication fee as long as the corresponding author is employed at INN, and that they state this as their affiliation in the article.
When publishing in Frontiers' journal, the conditions in INNs publication fund apply, but you do not need to send an application to INN's publication fund to have the publication fee covered.
When publishing in Frontiers journals, the conditions in INNs publication fund apply, but you do not need to send an application to INN's publication fund to have the publication fee covered. The Publishing fund supports a maximum of 6 publishing fees per employee per calendar year, and this includes article processing charges for articles in Frontiers journals.
Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
This agreement runs to the 31st of December 2025. Researchers at INN can publish in MDPI's journals with a 10% discount on publication fees. INN pays the entire publication fee as long as the corresponding author is employed at INN, and that they state this as their affiliation in the article.
When publishing in MDPIs journal, the conditions in INNs publication fund apply, but you do not need to send an application to INN's publication fund to have the publication fee covered. The Publishing fund supports a maximum of 6 publishing fees per employee per calendar year, and this includes article processing charges for articles in Frontiers journals.
Note: From 1 January 2023, Sustainability is no longer approved in the Norwegian register of scientific journals.
- Title list
- More information about this agreement (Norwegian)
Sage
This agreement runs to the 31st of December 2025. Faculty at INN can publish with open access at no cost in the journals included in the agreement.
- Title list for 2024
- More information from SIKT (in Norwegian)
SpringerNature
This agreement runs to the 31st of December 2025. Faculty at INN can publish with open access at no cost in the journals included in the agreement.
- Title list for 2023-2024 Journals marked with "par" are journals where you can both publish and read via the agreement. Journals with "publish_only" and "read_only", respectively, have either only publication or only read access via the agreement. If the journal is not included in the agreement, it is marked "excluded".
Author publishing workflow:
Taylor & Francis
This agreement runs to 31 December 2026. As of 23 January 2025, further details about the agreement have not been made public.
The agreement is re-negotiated and runs from the 1st of January 2023 to the 31st of December 2024. Faculty at INN can publish with open access at no cost in the journals included in the agreement. More information will come. Information from SIKT (In Norwegian)
Taylor and Francis Gold
A supplementary agreement with T&F includes publication in the publisher's gold journals. The agreement gives a discount of 10% on the publication fee (APC) and central invoicing to the institution. Articles published in the gold journals has the same workflow as the hybrid journals.
- Participating institutions T&F Gold 2022
- Title list T&F gold
- Author publishing workflow
- More information about this agreement (Norwegian)
Agreements and negotiations
Sikt negotiates and administers agreements with academic publishers on behalf of institutions from the university, department and health sector. The agreements are organized in consortium as payment services.