Cambridge University Press (CUP)

- get a discount when you need to pay for Open Access publishing

The Danish Universities have in 2023 entered into a three-year national agreement with publishers Cambridge University Press (CUP) which includes publishing and Open Access. 

The agreement with Cambridge University Press (CUP) covers accepted articles from 1 January 2023 to 31 December 2025.

There is a national cap on the amount of Open Access publications per year in the agreement. 97 articles in 2023, 99 articles in 2024 and 101 articles in 2025. There is then a 10% discount on all expenses for publishing Open Access (APC´s) in journals that are covered by the agreement when the limit is reached.
  

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.

DTU authors can as “corresponding authors” publish without expenditure in hybrid journals which are included in CUP´s Full Collection. 
Note that certain journals in the agreement become Gold Open Access during the contract period whereafter the journal is no longer a part of the agreement regarding free Open Access. You can find the dates for the specific journals via CUP´s OA waiver & Discount checker tool.

Which journals are not available
CUP´s Gold Open Access journals are not a part of the CUP agreement on Open Access. To be able to publish your article Open Access, in these journals, will usually lead to a publishing fee (APC).  

 

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: 97 articles in 2023, 99 articles in 2024 and 101 articles in 2025. When the limit is reached there is a 10% discount on all expenses for publishing Open Access (APC´s) in the journals that are covered.

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 current agreement with  Cambridge University Press (CUP) encapsulates exclusively hybrid journals, and if the limited quoter is exhausted, then the expenses for APC´s cannot be covered by Horizon Europe or another Plan S fund.

Even when you submit your manuscript for publication, it is not possible to know if the loft 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 first covered by the agreement when the manuscript is 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.