Cambridge University Press (CUP)

In 2023, Danish Universities have entered a three-year national agreement with the publisher Cambridge University Press (CUP) dealing with publishing Open Access - among other things.

The agreement with CUP covers articles accepted from 1 January 2023 to 31 December 2025.

What to do
While submitting your publication in a CUP hybrid journal covered by the agreement, it is important that you choose DTU as your institutional affiliation and use your corresponding DTU email address to publish under CUPs Open Access conditions.

• Use your DTU e-mail as the corresponding author
• State DTU as your institutional affiliation (Technical University of Denmark)
• Select Gold Open Access to publish your article without publication fee.
  NOTE! You select Gold Open Access even if you are publishing in a hybrid journal.
• Select a Creative Commons license (CC-BY default), CC-BY-NC-SA or CC-BY-NC-ND*

Read more about how to publish Open Access at CUP's homepage

Or see the guide
Step-by-Step. How to publish Open Access under this agreement
Eligible article types

Journals included
You can publish Open Access free of charge in hybrid CUP-journals included in the CUP Full Collection. Eligible article types: research articles, review articles, rapid communications, brief reports and case reports. 
Please be aware that certain journals in the agreement will transition to Gold Open Access during the agreement period, after which the journal will no longer be part of the free Open Access agreement. You can see the date for the respective journal on CUP’s website via their OA waiver & Discount checker tool.

That is:

• The author does not have to pay article a processing charge (APC)
• The article is published with a CC-BY license *
• The author retains copyright *
• The article (Published version) becomes immediately available as Open Access
• The article (Published version) can be archived in DTU Orbit without an embargo period

* Learn more about CC-BY license and copyright

Discount on APC
The agreement gives you the possibility to publishing without APC payment in Hybrid journals covered by the CUP Full Collection. However, the waiver is available for a national limit of 97 articles articles in 2023, 99 in 2024, and 101 in 2025. Once this limit has been met each year, a 10% discount on APC is available.

Journals not included:
CUP Gold Open Access journals are not a part of the agreement. If you want to publish in a Gold Open Access Journal, you will have to pay APC in order to publish your article Open Access.