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Write and publish

Here you will find an overview of publishing agreements for you as an employee at Ahus, as well as more information about Open Access and tips for publishing.

In order for your publication to yield publication points and internal recognition at Ahus, the following requirements must be met:

1) It must be a scientific publication:

  • Original article
  • Scientific review article
  • Scientific monograph or anthology article

Read more in chapter 5 of the Reporting Instructions​

2) It must be an approved publishing channel (level 1 or 2):

3) If funded by the Research Council of Norway (and EU and the Dam Foundation):

4) Correct addressing on the article
 For Ahus to receive publication points and financial recognition, the institutional address on the publication must be correct according to guidelines for addressing scientific articles at Akershus University Hospital (last updated April 2023).

5) Reporting (during or after publication)

Internal recognition at Ahus
All publications that are reported and approved in Cristin will be internally recognized at Ahus. The recognition is paid out to the divisions once a year, in May of the year following the publication report.​​​ Procedure for internal recognition of scientific articles and books​

Open Access means that scientific publications are made freely available online.

Starting from 2021, the Research Council of Norway requires that all scientific articles from projects they fund must be made available immediately, meaning without delay (embargo) and with an open license that allows reuse of the publication.

The Research Council's requirements are in collaboration with other European research councils, which together form cOAlition S and support Plan S. The goal of Plan S is to make all research immediately openly accessible.

There are three ways you can publish Open Access:
  • Publishing in open journals or platforms
  • Publishing in journals that are part of transitional agreements (see Agreements and discounts for Ahus employees)
  • Open archiving of a peer-reviewed version of an article (Author's Accepted Manuscript, AAM)
Requirements for open licenses
The article must be made available with a Creative Commons license CC BY 4.0:

 

What should I do as a researcher

Check the channel register (level 1 and 2)
You must also check if the journal is an approved publishing channel and provides publication points in the Norwegian funding system: Register of scientific publications (kanalregister.hkdir.no)

Retain rights to availability (Rights Retention Strategy)
For new announcements from 2021 onwards, the project leader is obligated to ensure that researchers in projects funded by the Research Council retain the right to make a peer-reviewed version (Author Accepted Manuscript (AAM)) of all articles resulting from the project available.
 
To ensure this, the corresponding author must include the following message in the web application when the article is submitted for review:
“This research was funded, in whole or in part, by The Research Council of Norway [6-digit project number]. For the purpose of open access, the author has applied a CC BY public copyright license to any Author Accepted Manuscript (AAM) version arising from this submission.”
 
Thus, researchers can make articles immediately available through an open archive with an open license, fulfilling the requirements of Plan S even if the article is published in a "closed" subscription journal.
cOAlition S has notified publishers about this. If the journal unexpectedly refuses publication citing this, one must contact the Research Council. Read more about Rights Retention Strategy

In line with the requirements that publicly funded research should be freely accessible immediately, "publish and read" agreements (PAR agreements) have been negotiated with several publishers. This means that some of the library agreements cover both the publication fee (article processing charge - APC) and access to reading. Additionally, we have some agreements that provide discounts on APC. Please note that the agreements do not cover all journals from these publishers.

To qualify for coverage of APC, you must be affiliated with Ahus, be the corresponding author, and use Ahus as the institutional address on the publication. The corresponding author is the one among the authors responsible for submitting the article to the journal. It is important to register/indicate affiliation with Ahus as early as possible in the process.

If you are affiliated with multiple institutions, they may be part of other agreements than Ahus. Please feel free to contact the Medical Library if you have questions.

Definitions/abbreviations:

  • APC = article publishing charge
  • Gold = pure open access journals funded by authors paying APC
  • Hybrid = purchasing individual articles in subscription journals
  • PAR = publish and read - agreements that provide access to reading and cover or give discounts on APC

Information about agreements applicable to Ahus employees:

News regarding agreements 2025:

15.01.25 (intranet): Open access agreement with Elsevier has been renewed, still unclear with Taylor & Francis and Wiley
13.01.25: Successful negotiations with Elsevier yield significant savings for Norwegian research institutions
20.12.24: Publisher negotiations with Elsevier, Wiley, and Taylor & Francis overdue

Elsevier

  • Agreement period: 2025-2027 (agreement reached on 13.01.25)
  • The date the article is accepted for publication is the relevant date for when the article comes for approval under the agreement
  • Journals included in the agreement (excel)
    • Hybrid: The agreement covers APC in most of the publisher's hybrid journals. Applies to journals marked with par in column B and hybrid in column G of the excel sheet.
      Exceptions: Certain titles owned by academic associations are not part of the agreement. The hybrid journals of Lancet are also not included.
    • Gold: 15% discount on APC in pure open access journals. Applies to journals marked with par in column B and gold in column G of the excel sheet. APC after discount must be covered with personal funds

  • Expenses beyond APC, such as extra pages or color illustrations, must be covered with personal funds.
  • Licenses: Articles are published with a CC license where the author retains the rights.
  • Workflow for authors:
    - Elsevier's author journey (hybrid) (pdf)
    - Elsevier's author journey (pure OA journals/gold), from page 4 (pdf)
  • More information on openscience.no: Elsevier agreement

Frontiers (discount only)

  • ​10% discount on APC
  • APC after discount must be covered with personal funds. The same applies to any expenses beyond APC, such as extra pages or color illustrations.
  • The corresponding author must be affiliated with Ahus and you must indicate Ahus as your institutional affiliation when submitting the manuscript. Please use your Ahus email address. Your affiliation with Ahus is confirmed by the library
  • The library will receive the invoice; you can provide a cost center to the library
  • Frontiers and Akershus University Hospital form open access publishing agreement (frontiersin.org)

MDPI (discount only)

  • 20% discount on APC
  • APC after discount must be covered with personal funds. The same applies to any expenses beyond APC, such as extra pages or color illustrations.
  • The corresponding author must be affiliated with Ahus
  • The corresponding author will receive the invoice
  • MDPI Journal List

Oxford University Press

    • Hybrid: The agreement covers APC in most of the publisher's hybrid journals. Applies to journals marked with par in column B and hybrid in column G of the excel sheet.
    • Gold: 15% discount on APC in pure open access journals. Applies to journals marked with par in column B and gold in column G of the excel sheet. APC after discount must be covered with personal funds.
  • Expenses beyond APC, such as extra pages or color illustrations, must be covered with personal funds.​
  • ​Workflow for authors:
    • ​​​In this agreement, the corresponding author must select the affiliation "Norwegian Institutions (UNIT members)" when signing the publishing agreement. The author will receive an email from OUP when the article is accepted. In the article itself, the affiliation should still be listed as Ahus. Affiliation with Ahus is confirmed by the library
  • Licenses: Articles are published with a CC license where the author retains the rights.
  • ​More information on openscience.no: Oxford agreement

Sage

  • Agreement period: 2025-2027
  • The date the article is accepted for publication is the relevant date for when the article comes for approval under the agreement
  • Journals included in the agreement (excel)
    • Hybrid (Sage Choice): The agreement covers APC in most of the publisher's hybrid journals. Applies to journals marked par in column B and hybrid in column G of the excel sheet
    • Gold (Sage Open): 20% discount on APC in pure open access journals. Applies to journals marked par in column B and gold in column G of the excel sheet. APC after discount must be covered with personal funds

  • Expenses beyond APC, such as extra pages or color illustrations, must be covered with personal funds.
  • Workflow for authors:
    • Workflow (ppt)
    • CC-BY is the standard license choice in the agreement. You must contact Sage if you want a different license

Springer Compact

  • Agreement period: 2025-2026/27
  • Expenses beyond APC, such as extra pages or color illustrations, must be covered with personal funds.
  • Licenses: Articles are published with a CC license where the author retains the rights
  • ​Information from the publisher: Open access agreement for Norway
  • More information on openscience.no: Springer agreement

Taylor & Francis

  • Agreement period: 2023-2024.

    NB! New agreement for 2025 is still under negotiation. We will update the information as soon as we know more.

    What happens to submitted articles if a new agreement is not in place?
    - Hybrid journals:
    If your article is accepted in 2025, unfortunately, you will not have the cost of publishing open access covered by the agreement. The alternative is either to publish closed (at no cost, but the article will only be available to subscribers), or to still publish open access, but then the entire publication fee must be covered with personal funds.

    - Gold journals:
    If your article is accepted in 2025, the entire publication fee must be covered with personal funds.

  • The date the article is accepted for publication is the relevant date for when the article comes for approval under the agreement

  • Journals included in the agreement:

Wiley

  • Agreement period: 2023-2024.

    NB! New agreement for 2025 is still under negotiation. We will update the information as soon as we know more.

    What happens to submitted articles if a new agreement is not in place?
    - Hybrid journals:
    If your article is accepted in 2025, unfortunately, you will not have the cost of publishing open access covered by the agreement. The alternative is either to publish closed (at no cost, but the article will only be available to subscribers), or to still publish open access, but then the entire publication fee must be covered with personal funds.

    - Gold journals:
    If your article is accepted in 2025, the entire publication fee must be covered with personal funds.

  • The date the article is accepted for publication is the relevant date for when the article comes for approval under the agreement

  • Journal included in the agreement:
    • Not included:
      Please note that the agreement does not cover all journals from Wiley. This applies to journals from academic associations (learned societies)

The Research Council has since 2009 required self-archiving of scientific articles for all projects they fully or partially fund. The goal is to ensure immediate open access, meaning that self-archiving occurs simultaneously with the article's publication in a journal. For projects announced from 2021 onwards, the minimum requirement is that the Author Accepted Manuscript (AAM) is made available immediately in an open archive, with a CC BY license and no embargo.

Ahus rented space and self-archived in OsloMet's knowledge archive ODA for a few years, but this archive was moved to a new platform in 2021, which Ahus has not had access to for technical reasons. This means that Ahus unfortunately does not have the opportunity for self-archiving until a new, shared, national archive, temporarily called National Knowledge Archive (NVA), is set to go live in 2024. It has not yet been clarified how Cristin and the new archive will interact. Remember to keep a full-text version of your articles for possible self-archiving later.

  • Journal/publisher policies and requirements for self-archiving: Sherpa Romeo
  • Funding agency requirements for self-archiving: Sherpa Juliet

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Last updated 9/19/2025