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Several Swedish research funders have come together to cover the costs of publishing with a range of fully open access publishers, including eLife.

About the agreement

Swedish research funders cover the costs of publishing in eLife for researchers. The agreement allows unlimited open access publishing and includes the article types Research Articles, Short Reports, Research Advances, and Tools and Resources Articles, types that would normally require a publication fee. All articles are published under a CC-BY license.

The corresponding author’s affiliation with Lund University must be indicated in the published article.

APC paid by research funding agencies

The Swedish research funding agencies Forte, Formas, Vinnova and The Swedish Research Council have jointly decided to finance the APC fee of publishers that hold only fully open access journals. The journal eLife is covered by this, which means that all researchers at Lund University can publish in eLife without fees for author or organisation. Authors at Lund University do not need to do anything extra for the handling to work.

Workflow for authors

To make it easier for the publishers and research funding agencies to identify researchers from participating organisations, it is important to do the following:

  • State your affiliation with Lund University in the article and, if possible, in the publisher’s manuscript submission system. 
  • Use your institutional e-mail address (ending with “lu.se” or “lth.se”) when submitting the manuscript. 

Contact

For questions about the agreement or open access publishing, please contact:

publicera [at] lub [dot] lu [dot] se (publicera[at]lub[dot]lu[dot]se)