Conditions for Open Access publishing in licence agreements between Royal Danish Library and publishers
Royal Danish Library has negotiated licence agreements with several publishers of academic journals that also cover the publication of research articles as Open Access.
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Licence agreements that also cover publication allow corresponding authors affiliated with Danish institutions, who are signatories to these agreements, to publish their articles as Open Access in selected journals (under certain conditions) without having to pay Article Processing Charges (APC).
The relevant licence agreements have a page where you can read more about what each agreement covers (e.g. participating institutions, journals and article types), and whether there is an annual limit on the number of articles covered by the agreement.
Each agreement has specific conditions regarding which article types, etc., are covered by the agreement. Royal Danish Library and the publisher will validate whether a corresponding author is eligible to have APCs for Open Access publication covered. Please note that only articles that have already been accepted for publication can be assessed.
Conditions
Royal Danish Library's conditions for validating requests for APC coverage for Open Access publication
1: Crediting
The corresponding author of the accepted manuscript must credit the institution where the research was conducted, provided that the institution participates in the publishing agreement in question.
2: Employment or study affiliation
The corresponding author of the accepted manuscript must be affiliated with the credited institution at the time of the article's acceptance for publication. Furthermore, the date of acceptance must fall within the period covered by the agreement.
Important notes about this condition:
- It is possible for corresponding authors to have dual or multiple employments (e.g. to a university and a hospital, to a university and a company, to two different universities) as long as one of these employments is at an institution, which is part of the relevant agreement, and the institution is explicitly credited.
- Only the affiliation of the corresponding author is relevant for eligibility purposes.
- The corresponding author should use their institutional e-mail address as their primary e-mail address, as this will speed up the processing of the request.
3: Creative Commons license
The corresponding author must select a Creative Commons license, which is a license that specifies how readers may use the article.
While the Open Access licence agreement gives authors a choice, Royal Danish Library encourages authors to choose the CC BY 4.0 licence, which is the least restrictive licence in the Creative Commons portfolio.
Please note that journals offer different Creative Commons licences. For more information on the specific Creative Commons licences that can be used in each agreement, please see the relevant agreement (menu to the left).