Discounts and waivers on APC (publishing fee)

There is a national cap on the annual number of pu​blished Open Access articles in the waiver agreements with:​

• Cambridge University Press​
• Springer (Springer Compact)
• Taylor & Francis

It will not be possible to know in advance whether an article can be published before the quota is reached. The APC waiver is only activated when the manuscript is accepted for publication, not when it is submitted to the journal. In other words, there ​​is no guarantee that the APC will be waived, as this depends on whether there are still APC-free publication slots available within the quota of the relevant agreement at the time the manuscript is accepted for publication.

Horizon Europe and Horizon 2020 require Open Access publishing. If you are publishing under a Horizon grant, it is recommended to contact KUB Research Support before submitting to a journal under one of the three above-mentioned agreements.​

ACM Agreement​ (Royal Danish Library's national licensing consortium).

Unlimited Open Access publishing in ACM magazines, conference proceedings, and journals – see the list of journals in the agreement here or use Journal Finder.

Procedure:

• Use your institutional email address* as the submitting corresponding author when submitting the manuscript for review and when choosing between the two "rights assignment" options after acceptance.
• Choose a Creative Commons license, e.g. CC BY.

*Region H mail is accepted if the submitting ​corresponding author is employed at one of the following hospitals: Amager and Hvidovre Hospital, Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg Hospital, Bornholm's Hospital, Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, Nordsjællands Hospital, Rigshospitalet, Region Hovedstadens Psykiatri and Region Hovedstadens Akutberedskab.
Region Zealand mail is accepted if the submitting corresponding author is employed at one of the following hospitals: Holbæk Sygehus, Nykøbing F. Sygehus, Næstved Sygehus, Sjællands Universitetshospital-Køge, Sjællands Universitetshospital-Roskilde, Slagelse Sygehus and Psykiatrien Region Sjælland.​

The following article types are included in the agreement:

• Research articles
• Review articles
• Conference paper
• Proceeding paper

Read more about conditions and procedures​.

American Chemical Soci​ety

APC discount: 250 USD in ACS's hybrid Open Access journals.

The final discount-adjusted prices are as follows:

• When choosing CC BY: 4250 USD
• When choosing CC BY-NC-ND: 3750 USD
• When choosing CC BY after 12 months embargo: 2250 USD
• When choosing​ CC BY-NC-ND​ after 12 months embargo: 1750 USD

American Society for Microbiology 2025-27

The APC is waived, but page charges will still apply. The following discounts are offered:

• ​25% discount on page charges as corresponding author
• 63% discount on page charges as corresponding author and individual member of ASM

The agreement covers all article types.

The APC is waived for publications in the following journals:

• Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy
• Applied and Environmental Microbiology
• Infection and Immunity
• Journal of Bacteriology
• Journal of Clinical Microbiology
• Journal of Virology

​BioScientifica

APC discount: 50 %

Creative Commons licenses: CC BY​, CC BY-NC and CC BY-NC-ND

BMC

APC discount: 15%

Use Journal Finder to find included titles.

Cambridge University Press Agreement​ (Royal Danish Library's national licensing consortium).

No APC in CUP's hybrid journals - see list of journals in the agreement by entering country and your institution here or use Journal Finder.

Procedure:

Select your institution from the list to confirm your affiliation (upon submission). Use your UCPH mail or Region mail* as submitting corresponding author. As affiliation, choose Copenhagen University for UCPH and Region Zealand and Copenhagen University Hospital for The Capital Region of Denmark.

Choose Gold Open Access** to publish your article without APC (once the article is accepted).

Choose a Creative Commons license, e.g. CC BY.

*Region H mail is accepted if the submitting corresponding author is employed at one of the following hospitals: Amager and Hvidovre Hospital, Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg Hospital, Bornholm's Hospital, Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, Nordsjællands Hospital, Rigshospitalet, Region Hovedstadens Psykiatri and Region Hovedstadens Akutberedskab.
Region Zealand mail is accepted if the submitting corresponding author is employed at one of the following hospitals: Holbæk Sygehus, Nykøbing F. Sygehus, Næstved Sygehus, Sjællands Universitetshospital-Køge, Sjællands Universitetshospital-Roskilde, Slagelse Sygehus and Psykiatrien Region Sjælland.

**CUP uses the terms Gold and Hybrid Open Access synonymously for journals operating with APCs. It is still only hybrid journals that are part of the agreement.

The following article types are included in the agreement:

• Research article
• Review article
• Rapid communications
• Brief reports
• Case reports

Read more about conditions and procedures​

Elsevier agreem​ent 2025-28​ (Royal Danish Library's national licensing consortium).

No APC in approximately​ 1640 of the publisher's hybrid journals - find journal included in the agreement​ or use Journal Finder.

Procedure:

• Use your UCPH mail or Region mail* as c​orresponding author. As affiliation, choose University of Copenhagen for both UCPH and The Capital Region of Denm​​ark​​
• Choose Gold Open Access** to publish your article wi​thout APC
• Choose a Creative Commons license, e.g. CC BY

*Region H mail is accepted if the corresponding author is employed at one of the following hospitals: Amager and Hvidovre Hospital, Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg Hospital, Bornholm's Hospital, Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, Nordsjællands Hospital, Rigshospitalet, Region Hovedstadens Psykiatri and Region Hovedstadens Akutberedskab.
Region Zealand mail is accepted if the corresponding author is employed at one of the following hospitals: Holbæk Sygehus, Nykøbing F. Sygehus, Næstved Sygehus, Sjællands Universitetshospital-Køge, Sjællands Universitetshospital-Roskilde, Slagelse Sygehus and Psykiatrien Region Sjælland.

**Elsevier uses the terms Gold and Hybrid Open Access synonymously for journals operating with APCs. It is still only hybrid journals that are part of the agreement.

The following article types are included in the agreement:

• Case reports
• Data in Brief
• Full-length article
• Micro-articles
• Original software publications
• Practice guidelines
• Protocols
• Review articles
• Replication studies
• Short communications
• Short surveys
• Video articles​

Read more about terms and pro​cedure.

Search for journals included in the agreement.

Elsevier's Gold Open Access journals are not included in the agreement, and an APC will usually have to be paid.

Johns Hopkins University Press (Project MUSE standard Collection) 2026​

The APC is waived for publications in the following journa​​ls:

• Advertising & Society Quarterly
• African Economic History
• American Imago
• American Journal of Philology
• American Periodicals: A Journal of History & Criticism
• American Studies
• Anthropological Linguistics
• Arethusa
• Arizona Quarterly: A Journal of American Literature, Culture, and Theory
• Arthuriana
• ASAP/Journal
• Biology and Environment: Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy
• Change Over Time
• China Review
• Chinese Studies International
• Collaborative Anthropologies
• Comitatus: A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies
• CUSP: Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Cultures
• Diacritics
• Dictionaries: Journal of the Dictionary Society of North America
• Digital Philology: A Journal of Medieval Cultures
• Early American Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal
• Early Theatre: A Journal associated with the Records of Early English Drama
• Education and Culture
• ELH
• Ériu
• Eudora Welty Review
• European Journal of Language Policy
• Feminist Formations
• Feminist German Studies
• French Forum
• French Studies: A Quarterly Review
• Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies
• Great Plains Quarterly
• Great Plains Research
• Humanity: An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Development
• Information & Culture
• Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society
• Intertexts
• Irish Journal of Earth Sciences
• Irish Studies in International Affairs
• Journal of Asian American Studies
• Journal of Austrian Studies
• Journal of Chinese Linguistics
• Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History
• Journal of Jewish Identities
• Journal of Late Antiquity
• Journal of Magazine Media
• Journal of Orthodox Christian Studies
• Journal of Sports Media
• Journal of the History of Philosophy
• Journal of the Southwest
• Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal
• Late Imperial China
• Latin American Theatre Review
• Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers
• L'Esprit Créateur
• Levinas Studies
• Library Trends
• Literature and Medicine
• Luso-Brazilian Review
• Lutheran Quarterly
• Mathematical Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy
• Mechademia
• MFS Modern Fiction Studies
• MLN
• Music and the Moving Image
• Nabokov Studies
• Narrative
• Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics
• New Hibernia Review
• NINE: A Journal of Baseball History and Culture
• Nineteenth-Century French Studies
• Nouvelles Études Francophones
• Partial Answers: Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas
• Philosophy and Literature
• Poe Studies
• portal: Libraries and the Academy
• Postmodern Culture
• Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy: Archaeology, Culture, History, Literature
• Progress in Community Health Partnerships: Research, Education, and Action
• Quebec Studies
• Restoration: Studies in English Literary Culture, 1660-1700
• Reviews in American History
• SAIS Review of International Affairs
• Shakespeare Bulletin
• Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies
• Southern Cultures
• Spiritus: A Journal of Christian Spirituality
• Storyworlds: A Journal of Narrative Studies
• Studies in American Fiction
• Studies in American Indian Literatures
• Studies in American Naturalism
• Studies in Latin American Popular Culture
• Studies in Romanticism
• The American Indian Quarterly
• The Faulkner Journal
• The Hopkins Review
• The Journal of Aesthetic Education
• The Latin Americanist
• The Lion and the Unicorn
• The Missouri Review
• The Review of Higher Education
• Theory & Event
• Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature
• Victorian Poetry
• Victorians: A Journal of Culture and Literature
• Wallace Stevens Journal
• Western American Literature
• Women and Music: A Journal of Gender and Culture​

Medical Journals Sweden

APC discount: 12%

Creative Commons license: CC BY og CC BY-NC

The APC is discoundted for publications in the following journa​​ls:

• Acta Dermato-Venereologica
• Acta Odontologica Scandinavica
• Acta Oncologica
• Acta Orthopaedica
• Biomaterial Investigations in Dentistry
• Journal of Plastic Surgery and Hand Surgery
• Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine
• Scandinavian Journal of Urology

PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America​

Publishing with CC BY-NC-ND license - discount: 500​ USD.

If funder requires CC BY license - discount: 500 USD.

NOTE: By default, all articles are free and open after 6 months​.

Portland Press Agreement 202​6-28​ (Royal Danish Library's national licensing consortium).

No APC in any of Portland Press' five journals​.

Procedure:

Once your article is accepted, you will be guided through the agreement's OA terms:​

• Select UCPH from the list to confirm your affiliation.
• Choose the option to publish Open Access without paying APC.
• Select CC BY license.

Read more about conditions and procedures.

SCOAP³

The APC is waived for publication in the following journals:

• APS Physics:
  • ​​Physical Review C (PRC)
  • Physical Review D (PRD)
  • Physical Review Letters (PRL)
    
    
• Elsevier:
  • ​Nuclear Physics B (NPB)
  • Physics Letters B (PLB)
    
    
• IOP Publishing:
  • Chinese Physics C (CPC)
    
    
• Jagiellonian University:
  • Acta Physica Polonica B (APPB)
    
    
• Oxford University Press:
  • Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics (PTEP)
    
    
• Springer:
  • The European Physical Journal C (EPJC)
  • The Journal of High Energy Physics (JHEP)
    
    
• Wiley:
  • ​​Advances in High Energy Physics (AHEP)​​

Springer Compact Agreement (Royal Danish Library's national licensing consortium).​

No APC in Springer Compact's hybrid journals, which include approximately​ 2100 journals from Springer, Adis and Palgrave - Download list of journals include​d in the agreement or use Journal Finder.

The agreement entered into force the 21st of March 2023. Only articles that are accepted for publication after this date can publish under the agreement.

Procedure:

• ​Use your UCPH mail or Region mail* as submitting corresponding author.
• Select your institution from the list to confirm your affiliation.
• Choose the option to publish Open Access​ without APC.
• Choose a Creative Commons license, e.g. CC BY.

*Region H mail is accepted if the submitting corresponding author is employed at one of the following hospitals: Amager and Hvidovre Hospital, Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg Hospital, Bornholm's Hospital, Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, Nordsjællands Hospital, Rigshospitalet, Region Hovedstadens Psykiatri and Region Hovedstadens Akutberedskab.
Region Zealand mail is accepted if the submitting corresponding author is employed at one of the following hospitals: Holbæk Sygehus, Nykøbing F. Sygehus, Næstved Sygehus, Sjællands Universitetshospital-Køge, Sjællands Universitetshospital-Roskilde, Slagelse Sygehus and Psykiatrien Region Sjælland.

The following article types are included in the agreement:

• Original articles
• Research articles

The Nature portfolio is not part of the free publishing agreement.

Springer E-books

APC discount: 15 %

Creative Commons license: CC BY

Taylor & Francis agreement 2024-28 (Royal Danish Library's national licensing consortium).​​

No APC in 2179 of the publisher's hybrid Open Access journals - See list of journals include​d in the agreement or use Journal Finder.

Procedure:

• ​Select your institution from the list to confirm your UCPH or Region H* affiliation.
• Choose the option to publish Open Access without APC and with a Creative Commons license, e.g. CC BY​​​

*Region H mail is accepted if the submitting corresponding author is employed at one of the following hospitals: Amager and Hvidovre Hospital, Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg Hospital, Bornholm's Hospital, Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, Nordsjællands Hospital, Rigshospitalet, Region Hovedstadens Psykiatri and Region Hovedstadens Akutberedskab. ​
Region Zealand mail is accepted if the submitting corresponding author is employed at one of the following hospitals: Holbæk Sygehus, Nykøbing F. Sygehus, Næstved Sygehus, Sjællands Universitetshospital-Køge, Sjællands Universitetshospital-Roskilde, Slagelse Sygehus and Psykiatrien Region Sjælland.

The following article types are included in the agreement:

• Research article
• Review article
• Original article

Read more about terms and procedure

Taylor & Francis' Gold Open ​Access​ journals are not included in the agreement, and an APC will usually have to be paid.