Cambridge University Press (CUP)

When your research article has been accepted for publication in a CUP journal it is vital that you select DTU as your affiliated institution and that you use your corresponding DTU-mail address, so that you can publish Open Access under the agreement.

• Use your DTU e-mail as the corresponding author
• State DTU as your institutional affiliation (Technical University of Denmark)
• Select Open Access to publish your article without a publication fee
• Choose a Creative Commons license
  If it is possible to choose between different CC-licenses, then you are encouraged to select a CC BY 4.0 license which is the least restrictive license in the CC-portfolio.

• The corresponding author that has accepted the manuscript, must be employed or studying at the institution which he or she has credited – in this case DTU.
• It is possible for the corresponding author to have multiple or several places of employment, so long that one of these places of employment is at an institution which is a part of the applicable agreement, and that the institution in question, is explicitly credited – in this case DTU.
  Examples of multiple places of employment: a university and a hospital, a university and a corporation, two different universities. 
• Only the corresponding author´s association to DTU is required to publish Open Access under the agreement. 

Who does not qualify as the corresponding author?
Corresponding authors that are, for example emeritus, guest researchers or in any other way associated with DTU are not permitted to publish Open Access under the agreement. 

It is always the corresponding author who is responsible for the publication of the article and any related expenses.

• Learn more on how to publish Open Access as the corresponding author under the agreement on the CUP website
• Step-by-Step. How to publish Open Access under this agreement

DTU authors can as “corresponding authors” publish without expenditure in hybrid and gold Open Access journals which are included in CUP´s Full Collection: OA waiver & Discount checker tool.

 

 

The following article types are covered by this agreement:

• Research article
• Review article
• Rapid communication
• Brief report
• Case report

Article types which are not included in the agreement:
Book reviews, Editorials, Introductions, Letters, Meeting reports, Abstracts.

In the agreement there is a national cap on the amount of Open Access publications per year: 88 articles in 2026, 90 articles in 2027 and 92 articles in 2028. Once the limit is reached CUP will automatically apply a 20% discount on expenses for publishing Open Access (APC´s) in the journals that are covered by the agreement.

EU´s Horizon Europe framework program
If you have a research grant from EU´s Horizon Europe framework program or a different Plan S accommodated financial provider, then you need to be aware that there are certain requirements on Open Access, and that specific expenses for APC´s in hybrid journals are not covered by the grant.

The cap
Even when you submit your manuscript for publication, it is not possible to know if the cap to the agreement has been reached or not and if the APC is covered by the agreement. The reason for this is that the APC is only covered by the agreement once the manuscript has been finally accepted for publication

If the expense is not covered by the agreement, then it is the responsibility of the corresponding author to pay for the APC. 

However, there are also options within the transaction pages to select ‘I don’t have APC funding’, to which the journal editorial team will get in touch with alternative options. If the cap has been reached, you can still withdraw the article and would not be forced to pay an APC.