Springer

In 2023, Danish Universities have entered into a four-year national agreement with the publisher Springer, dealing with publishing Open Access - among other things.

The agreement with Springer covers articles submitted from 21 March 2023 to 31 December 2026.

What to do
Once your research article has been accepted for publication in a Springer 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 Springer's 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 (e.g. CC-BY or CC-BY-NC)*

Journals included
As "corresponding author", DTU researchers can publish Open Access free of charge in more than 2,000 hybrid Springer journals.
List of journals where you can publish Open Access (Excel)

Types of articles covered by the agreement
Original Paper: Standard article, usually presenting new results; articles published under this article type may also be referred to as Original Research, Original Article, Original Paper, or Research Paper.

Please note that the following article types are not covered by this agreement
i) Review Paper: Standard article, interpreting previously published results.
ii) Brief Communication: Short article submitted for rapid publication that exhibits the same structure as a standard article.

Advantages in the agreement:

• The author does not have to pay an article processing charge (APC)
• The article is published with the chosen Creative Commons 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

* More on CC-BY licenses and copyright

Journals not included
Gold Open Access and Nature portfolio journals are not part of the Springer Compact Open Access publishing agreement. When publishing in these journals, a publication fee (APC) will typically have to be paid in order to be able to publish your article as Open Access.