Taylor & Francis

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

In 2024, Danish Universities has entered into a five-year national agreement with publisher Taylor & Francis which includes publishing and Open Access. 

The agreement with Taylor & Francis covers accepted articles from 1 January 2024 to 31 December 2028.

There is a national cap of 500 articles per year in the agreement. 

No more, free APCs in 2025
- but a new round of free APCs starts in 2026.

 

When your research article has been accepted for publication in a Taylor & Francis 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 a “corresponding author”, publish Open Access with a discount in 2.000 hybride Taylor & Francis journals (called Taylor & Francis Open Select journals).  
List of journals where you can publish Open Access

Which journals are not available
Gold Open Access journals are not part of the agreement for free Open Access publishing. When publishing in these journals, you will, as usual, need to pay a publication fee (APC) in order to publish articles as Open Access.

The following article types are covered by this agreement:
  • Original article
  • Research article
  • Review article.

In the agreement there is a national cap of 500 articles on the amount of Open Access publications per year: When the limit is reached there is no discount on all expenses for publishing Open Access (APC´s) in the journals that are covered.

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 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 Taylor & Francis encapsulates exclusively hybrid journals, and if the limited quoter is exhausted the expenses for APC´s cannot be covered by Horizon Europe or another Plan S fund.

The cap
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.