For gold open access journals, the institutes can pay the author fee.
Contact Elin Hecker before submitting an article, and she will check if there is enough funds.
Contact Elin Hecker if you have any questions regarding publishing and open access.
Choice of journal
1. Level 1 or 2 = approved journal
Search the register of scientific publishing channels. The level is displayed below the title:
You should click on the journal to see if there have been any concerns about the journal's quality (example: Scientific Reports). If you find comments of concern and notice that the journal is under review, you may want to consider choosing another journal. (It will retain its level until the Publications Committee has made a decision.)
If you do not have a level 1 or 2 title, you must choose another title.
Only levels 1 and 2 provide NIH a score.
2. Gold open access journal
Gold open access journals = contain only open access articles.
Search the register of scientific publishing channels. If "Indexed in DOAJ" is green labeled (to the right of the title), it is a gold open access journal:
For gold open access journals, the institute covers the author fee.
Contact Elin Hecker before submitting an article, and she will check if there is enough funds. More information and guidelines.
Isn't it a gold open access journal? See the next point.
3. Hybrid journal with an agreement
Hybrid journals = contain both open access articles and articles behind a paywall.
Search the register of scientific publishing channels. If "Included in publishing agreement" is green labeled (to the right of the title), we have a publishing agreement where you don't have to pay article processing charges:
You must click on the journal to check if we participate in the agreement.
When you enter NIH as your affiliation when submitting an article, the system will detect the agreement and you can select open access.
Doesn't it have an agreement? See the next point.
4. Hybrid journal without an agreement - posting in NVA
If it says "Not included in publishing agreement" in red (to the right of the title), you cannot choose open access:
The accepted version of the article can be made available in NVA (see NIH's rights strategy on how to do this) at the same time as the article is published in the journal.
Author’s Accepted Manuscript is the final manuscript version after peer review (Author’s Accepted Manuscript, postprint). This is your final version after peer review, but without the journal’s layout, logo, page numbers, page layout, etc.
NIH's policy
NIH aims to make all scientific publications openly available from the time of publication (enshrined in the NIH's policy for open access to scientific publications).
Funders' requirements
- The Research Council of Norway
All scholarly publications based on the result(s) from research funded by the Research Council, must be made open access immediately from the time of publication. Check out The Research Council of Norway's page about open access for more information.
- The government
In 2017, the Government launched the National goals and guidelines for open access to research articles, with the aim of making all publicly funded Norwegian research articles openly available by 2024.
- Horizon Europe (EU)
All scholarly publications based on the result(s) from research funded by Horizon Europe, must be made open access immediately from the time of publication.