Open access to scientific publications
Örebro University endeavours to ensure that publications produced at the university are made openly accessible, taking into account various conditions and practices associated with the publication traditions of different research disciplines.
Publications at Örebro University must be published with immediate open access to the greatest extent possible. This is linked to both to EU and government requirements that publicly funded research must be immediately open access, and to the fact that funders impose similar requirements for their funding.
Örebro University is part of the national Bibsam consortium, which facilitates open access to scientific articles through prepaid publication fees. The university offers access to the SciFree tool, enabling you to verify if there is an agreement with a particular journal.
If there is no open access agreement with a journal, you can either apply for funding for the publication fee through the university's OA fund or opt for parallel publication in DiVA.
Open-access publishing for books or book chapters is more complex, but there are opportunities to publish them as open access. The university supports the Swedish platform Kriterium, which specialises in the review, publication, and dissemination of open-access scientific books. It is also possible to publish books in DiVA with open access or alternatively to parallel publish a book or book chapter in DiVA.