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• Support for publication fees and publisher agreements
• Self-archiving
• Before submitting your article for publishing

Support for publication fees and publisher agreements

The university has publisher agreements with the major publishers of academic journals. The agreements are paying for the whole, or a part, of the author fees in subscription-based and open access journals. However, certain requirements have to be met. At LUSEM the faculty cover the cost for your publication, you as an individual researcher will not be invoiced for publications in journals that are covered by the agreements.

When the journal is not covered by any of the publisher agreements

Researchers at Lund University can apply for funding of the APC in pure open access journals. The whole amount is paid by the University Library and LUSEM. Open access fees for books and book chapters can be financed through the Lund University book fund.

• Search for journals included in publisher agreements
• Financial support for publication fees
• Publishing agreements and discount
• Lund University Book fund

Self-archiving

Self-archiving means that a copy of a published work is uploaded in full text in an 
repository (for example LUCRIS).  The most common requirement from publishers for making research results publicly available are met by a full-text publication of the reviewed, accepted version of an article (post-print/accepted manuscript). Check the publisher's terms and conditions before you self-archive an article. Some publishers may, for example, require an embargo before a version can be made available. It is also common that only the so-called post-print version may be used.

You can search for a journal in the Sherpa Romeo database to see what applies to your article. The information is often available on the publishers website as well. This database contain publishers' conditions for open access archiving on a journal-by-journal basis.

As a researcher at Lund University, you can use LUCRIS to self-archive an article by uploading a full-text version. When registering a publication in LUCRIS, you upload the version that is permitted under the publisher's terms as a PDF file under "Electronic version (s) of this work". Enter which version of the article this copy is under "Document Version".

Sherpa romeo Publisher copyright policies and self-archiving

Sherpa Juliet Research funders' open access policies

Before submitting your article for publishing

Before submitting your article, it is always a good idea to check the quality of the journal.

Although most publishers and journals are of good quality, there are also exceptions of unserious actors. It can be difficult to keep track of which journals or publishers might be dubious, but there are different ways that you can make a quality check of a journal or publisher.

The website "Think Check Submit" contains a good overview of what to consider before submitting an article or a book/book chapter. The website aims to help researchers identify trusted journals and publishers for their research.

• Visit the Think, Check, Submit website
• DOAJ is a database that lists quality-controlled OA journals - Directory of Open Access Journals – DOAJ
• You can find more useful information on this topic on the University library’s website