International Water Association (IWA)

In the period 1 January - 31 December 2025 researchers at DTU can publish Open Access free off charge in 14 golden Open Access journals from IWA.

What to do
As a corresponding author, it is important that you, during the submitting process, notify that you want to publish Open Access within the Danish agreement.

While submitting your publication in an IWA journal covered by the agreement, it is also important that you choose DTU as your institutional affiliation and use your corresponding DTU email address to publish under IWA Open Access conditions.

• 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
• Select a Creative Commons license; CC-BY (default)*

Learn more about APC publishing in the 14 golden Open Access journals from IWA 

That is:

• The author does not have to pay an article 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