Open Access Publishing
Open access ensures that scientific publications are accessible to everyone free of charge.
Open access agreements with publishers
Take advantage of the open access agreements with publishers! Under the agreements, Aalto affiliated corresponding authors can publish their articles without open access fees (APC fee) or get discounts on them.
These transformative Read & Publish agreements are compliant with Plan S, enabling researchers to access scientific journals and publish their articles open access without APC fees.
These transformative Read & Publish agreements are compliant with Plan S, enabling researchers to access scientific journals and publish their articles open access without APC fees.
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Support and help
For any questions, please don't hesitate to contact Open Science and ACRIS team, acris@aalto.fi.
Key criteria for utilizing open access agreements
- You are the corresponding author of the article, i.e. you submit the manuscript and communicate with the publisher through the peer review process.
- You are affiliated with Aalto University, ie. you are a researcher, doctoral student or other staff member of Aalto University.
- Your affiliation with Aalto University is clearly stated in the article.
- Most publishers require that your affiliation with Aalto University is valid at the time of the acceptance of the article.
- You use your Aalto email when submitting the manuscript and choose Aalto University as your organization, because the identification is based on these.
- Please see our agreements and instructions.
Available discounts for open access fees
Open access agreements provide two types of discounts:
- Open access fee (APC fee) is fully covered by the open access agreement. There is no fee for authors. These are marked with No APC fee in the table below.
- 15 % discount on open access fee (APC fee) is provided. For the payment of the rest of the fee, please consult your department. These are marked with 15 % discount in the table below.
Agreements cover open access fees, but not additional color or page charges.
Other important issues
- Most publishers have a shared quota of free open access articles for . Please keep in mind the quota may run out.
- All the journals of a publisher may not be covered by the agreements. Please check the detailed journal lists and instructions or .
- Apart from the open access agreements, Aalto University does not have a central open access fund. If you publish in a journal which is not covered by our agreements, please consult your department for the payment of the open access fee.
- Agreements are always fixed-term and FinELib consortium negotiates on renewal of the agreements with publishers.
Agreements including fully open access (gold) journals
- ACM (no APC fee)
- ACS (no APC fee)
- ASME (no APC fee)
- Cambridge University Press (no APC fee)
- Emerald (no APC fee)
- IEEE (no APC fee)
- IOP (no APC fee)
- RSC (no APC fee)
- SAGE (no APC fee)
- SCOAP3 (no APC fee)
- Wiley (no APC fee)
- Elsevier (15% discount on APC fee)
- Oxford University Press (15% discount on APC fee)
- Science Advances journal (15% discount on APC fee)
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Aalto University open access agreements and instructions
| Publisher | Journals included in the agreement | Open access fee (APC fee) |
Valid until Article quota |
Criteria |
Guidelines and journal lists Current news |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) |
(15 % discount) Other : (self-archiving author accepted manuscript under CC BY) |
15 % discount on APC fee in Science Advances |
31.12.2026 No article quota |
Submitting corresponding author from Aalto University Use Aalto email when submitting the article |
(FinELib) |
| ACM -Association for Computing Machinery |
No APC fee |
31.12.2027 No article quota |
Submitting corresponding author from Aalto University Use Aalto email when submitting the article Agreement can be used only if CC BY license is selected |
(FinELib) | |
| ACS - American Chemical Society | No APC fee |
Agreement valid for now Annual article quota |
Submitting corresponding author from Aalto University Use Aalto email when submitting the article |
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| ASME - The American Society of Mechanical Engineers |
Hybrid journals 1 open access journal |
No APC fee |
31.12.2025 No article quota |
Submitting corresponding author from Aalto University Use Aalto email when submitting the article |
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Cambridge University Press |
Hybrid journals in CUP Full Collection Open access journals in CUP Full Collection |
No APC fee |
31.12.2025 No article quota |
Submitting corresponding author from Aalto University Use Aalto email when submitting the article |
(FinELib) |
| Elsevier |
Hybrid journals Open access journals (15 % discount) |
No APC fee in hybrid journals 15% discount in open access journals |
31.12.2025 Article quota for the agreement period |
Submitting corresponding author from Aalto University Use Aalto email when submitting the article |
(FinELib) |
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Elsevier Cell Press |
Hybrid journals |
No APC fee |
31.12.2025 Annual article quota |
Submitting corresponding author from Aalto University Use Aalto email when submitting the article |
(FinELib) |
| Emerald |
Hybrid journals in Emerald Premier collection Two full open access journals |
No APC fee |
31.12.2026 Article quota for the agreement period |
Submitting corresponding author from Aalto University Use Aalto email when submitting the article Open access option should be chosen during submission Agreement can be used only if CC BY license is selected |
(FinELib) |
| IEEE |
Hybrid journals Open access journals |
No APC fee |
31.12.2025 Article quota for the agreement period |
Submitting corresponding author from Aalto University Use Aalto email when submitting the article |
(FinELib) |
| IOP Publishing - Institute of Physics |
All journals in lists A, B, C and D are included (also gold open access journals) |
No APC fee |
31.12.2027 No article quota |
Submitting corresponding author from Aalto University Use Aalto email when submitting the article |
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Nature Research (See also Springer) |
Hybrid journals Please note: Nature Communications is not included in the agreement |
No APC fee |
31.12.2026 Article quota for the agreement period |
Submitting corresponding author from Aalto University Use Aalto email when submitting the article |
(FinELib) |
|
Oxford University Press (OUP) |
Hybrid journals Open access journals (15 % discount) |
No APC fee in hybrid journals 15% discount in open access journals |
31.12.2025 No article quota |
Submitting corresponding author from Aalto University Use Aalto email when submitting the article Aalto University must be the primary affiliation The article should not be published in Supplement |
(FinELib) |
| RSC - The Royal Society of Chemistry |
Hybrid journals Open access journals |
No APC fee |
31.12.2025 No article quota |
Submitting corresponding author from Aalto University Use Aalto email when submitting the article |
(FinELib) |
| SAGE |
Hybrid journals Open access journals |
No APC fee |
31.12.2026 No article quota |
Submitting corresponding author from Aalto University Use Aalto email when submitting the article |
(FinELib) |
| SCOAP3 journals (high-energy physics) |
No APC fee |
31.12.2027 No article quota |
Under the model, authors of high-energy physics articles worldwide can publish open access in without APC fees | (FinELib) | |
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Springer (see also Nature Research) |
Hybrid journals in Springer Compact collection Please note: Nature Communications and Scientific Reports are not included in the agreement |
No APC fee |
31.12.2025 Article quota for the agreement period |
Submitting corresponding author from Aalto University Use Aalto email when submitting the article |
(FinELib) |
| Taylor & Francis |
Hybrid journals in Open Select collection |
No APC fee |
31.12.2026 Annual article quota |
Submitting corresponding author from Aalto University Use Aalto email when submitting the article |
(FinELib) |
| Wiley |
Hybrid journals Open access journals |
No APC fee |
31.12.2026 Annual article quota |
Submitting corresponding author from Aalto University Use Aalto email when submitting the article |
28.4.2025: The new agreement is signed and open access publishing is activated. For retrospective open access, Wiley contacts the corresponding authors by email. More information: acris@aalto.fi (FinELib) |
Useful information on open access publishing
Article processing charges (APC fees)
In publishing agreements, authors agree for example on copyright issues and terms for open access publishing.
Explore the open science requirements set by major research funders.
Plan S is an open access initiative launched by research funders.
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