Springer

When submitting your research article, 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 Springer´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.

• 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.

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

DTU authors can as “corresponding authors” publish without expenditure in more than 2.000 hybrid Springer journals. 
List of journals where you can publish Open Access (xslx)

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

Original articles, i.e. standard articles, that present new results. Articles published in this article type can be referred to as Original Research, Original Article, Original Paper or Research Paper.

Kindly note that the following article types are not included in the agreement.

• Review Paper: Standard articles that interpret previously published results
• Short messages: Short article submitted for a fast publication which contains the same structure as the standard article.

There is a national cap on the amount of Open Access publications per year in the agreement: 767 articles in 2023, 775 articles in 2024, 783 articles in 2025 and 791 articles in 2026. When the years quota is exhausted than their will not be provided any additional discount for further expenses on Open Access publishing (APC´s).

EU´s Horizon Europe framework program
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 Springer 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.

If the cap is reached
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 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.