International Water Association (IWA)

- free Open Access publishing in 14 Golden Open Access journals from IWA

Between 1 January 2025 to 31 December 2025, DTU researchers can freely publish Open Access in 14 IWA journals. 

There is no cap (limit) on the number of Open Access articles that can be published in the journals which are covered by agreement.  
 

As corresponding author, it is vital that when submit your research article that you notify that the article will be published as Open Access under the Danish agreement. 

When submitting your research article to one of the IWA journals, it is important that you choose DTU as your affiliated institution and that you use your corresponding DTU-mail address, so that you can publish under IWA´s Open Access terms of condition.

  • 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.

Learn more about how you as an author can publish on the IWA website

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

These article types are included in the agreement:

  • Research paper
  • Review paper
  • Practical paper
  • Short communication
  • Technical note
  • Book review
  • Overview paper
  • Communication