Open Access licence agreements

Royal Danish Library's Licensing Service has entered into a number of licence agreements with research publishers regarding the possibility of publishing with Open Access for corresponding authors at the affiliated institutions. Publishing Open Access means that research publications are made available to all interested parties.

The national Open Access strategy has a vision of creating free access to Danish research publications for all citizens, researchers and companies. Royal Danish Library supports this vision by negotiating licence agreements with research publishers, which give corresponding authors at affiliated institutions the opportunity to publish Open Access in the publisher's journals.

In practice, Royal Danish Library's Open Access licence agreements work in such a way that you, as a corresponding author covered by an agreement, avoid having to pay the so-called "Article Processing Charge" (colloquially APC), which often constitutes a significant expense in connection with Open Access publishing.

Find more information

• You can read more about the individual Open Access license agreements in the menu.
• You can search across all the agreements in Royal Danish Library's Journal finder.
• Under Conditions for OA publishing, you can see a list of the conditions you must meet in order for Royal Danish Library to validate your request for Open Access publishing.
• If the above pages do not answer your question, check our FAQ or contact your local researcher service/researcher support, who is familiar with the agreements and your research area and can advise on points to pay attention to and more.
• Read more about Open Science and Open Access at Royal Danish Library.