When you are to publish your research results, you need to select the journal to which you will submit your manuscript. At the same time, researchers and doctoral students have a special responsibility to publish open access to the greatest possible extent. Below is guidance on how to choose a journal, what you need to think about before publishing, as well as information on Lund University’s financial support regarding open access publication fees.

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• Financial support regarding publication fees
• Open access: copyright and licences
• Secure and stable identification using ORCID, DOI, ISBN, and ISSN

Financial support regarding publication fees

Lund University’s policy is that all research is to be published open access to the greatest possible extent. Lund University Library therefore has agreements with several publishers to enable doctoral students and researchers at Lund University to publish open access without incurring additional fees.

Search for journals included in open access agreements – scifree.se

Read more about LU's publishing agreements – ub.lu.se

Financial support regarding publishing in journals

Doctoral students and researchers who publish open access in journals that meet the University’s quality requirements can apply to the University’s APC Fund for financial support to cover the publication fees (article processing charges).

How to choose an open access journal – ub.lu.se

Apply for financial support from the University's APC Fund – ub.lu.se

For articles published via publishing agreements as well as articles that receive financial support via the APC Fund, author fees/(APC) are fully covered via the University Library and the Faculty of Science. Any additional costs for pages and colour images are not covered and must therefore be paid for by the individual researcher.

Financial support regarding publishing in books

Doctoral students and researchers who publish research results open access in a book that meet the University’s quality requirements can apply to the Lund University BPC Fund for financial support to pay the publication fees (book processing charges).

Apply for financial support from the University's BPC Fund – lub.lu.se

Open access: copyright and licences

There are different levels of open access, which determine what end users can do with the publication. The basic level means it can be read online free of charge. Conditions for copying, sharing, and reuse are often specified in a Creative Commons licence (CC licence).

Creative Commons website – creativecommons.org

If you want to learn more about how Creative Commons licenses work and how you can use them when publishing with open access, you can take this online self-study course from Umeå University Library.

Creative Commons licences in scholarly publishing – oer.ub.umu.se

Journals and publishers often have their own conditions regarding copyright and parallel publishing. Use the Sherpa Romeo database to find out what applies for different journals or check the website of the journal or publisher. The Library of Science can assist you if you are uncertain about which conditions apply.

Search for journals' conditions regarding copyright and parallel publishing in the Sherpa Romeo database

Secure and stable identification using ORCID, DOI, ISBN, and ISSN

Persistent identifiers (PID) are used as a secure and stable way to identify individual researchers and their research output.

ORCID

ORCID is the international register of researchers. You also need an OCID ID in order to create an account in Prisma, the joint application and case management system for Forte, Formas and the Swedish Research Council.

You can link your ORCID ID to your profile in the Lund University research database LUCRIS and in this way keep your ORCID ID updated through a dynamic flow from LUCRIS to your ORCID ID.

Create an ORCHID ID – orcid.org

Connect LUCRIS and ORCID ID and – staff.lu.se

DOI (Digital Object Identifier)

DOI is an international standard for identification numbers for digital material such as research articles and datasets. The International DOI Foundation (IDF) is the organisation that governs the DOI system.

Search for DOIs – doi.org

ISBN (International Standard Book Number)

ISBN is an international standard for identifying books, among other things.

ISSN (International Standard Serial Number)

ISSN is an international standard for identifying journals, among other things. An ISSN is a link to the individual or item that remains stable over time even if the author changes their name or the journal changes platform.

Search for ISSNs in the Ulrichsweb database