The Royal Danish Library's national licensing consortium, on behalf of the Danish universities and other research institutions, negotiates agreements with publishers including opportunities to publish Open Access at no cost to employees of these Danish organisations.
Main points in the agreements:
Currently agreements has been concluded with the publishers below.
A four-year agreement has been concluded with Elsevier for the period from 2021-2024
The agreement includes the option to publish without APC payment in a number of Elsevier's hybrid journals.
Find a list of journals included in the agreement here, and find a description of how to use the agreement in the document below.
You can read more about the agreement on The Royal Danish Library's website here: https://pro.kb.dk/en/licensing/elsevier
A five-year agreement has been concluded with Taylor & Francis in the period from 2024-2028.
The agreement includes the option to publish without APC payment in a number of Taylor & Francis hybrid journals.
You can see a list of the journals included in the agreement via this link: https://www.tandfonline.com/openaccess/openselect
Please note that there is a national cap on the annual number of published OA articles. When the cap is reached the APC-agreement does not apply. We recommend that you contact forskersupport@kb.dk if you are publishing under funding terms that requires Open Access (e.g. Horizon Europe) before submitting to a journal in this agreement.
You can find a description of how to use the agreement in the document below (guide is on the way).
You can read more about the agreement on KB's website here: https://pro.kb.dk/licensservice/taylor-francis
A three-year agreement has been concluded with Cambridge for the period from 2023-2025.
The agreement includes the option to publish without APC payment in a number of Cambridge's hybrid journals.
You can see a list of the journals included in the agreement via this link.
Please note that there is a national cap on the annual number of published OA articles. When the cap is reached the APC-agreement does not apply. We recommend that you contact forskersupport@kb.dk if you are publishing under funding terms that requires Open Access (e.g. Horizon Europe) before submitting to a journal in this agreement.
You can read more about the agreement at Det Kgl. The library's website here: https://pro.kb.dk/licensservice/cambridge-university-press
You can find a description of how to use the agreement in the document below (guide is on the way)
A four-year agreement has been concluded with Wiley for the period from 2022-2025.
The agreement includes the option to publish without APC payment in Wiley's hybrid journals.
Find a list of journals included in the agreement via this link (opens in ecxel), and a description of how to use the agreement in the document below.
Please note that there is a national cap on the annual number of published OA articles. When the cap is reached the APC-agreement does not apply. We recommend that you contact forskersupport@kb.dk if you are publishing under funding terms that requires Open Access (e.g. Horizon Europe) before submitting to a journal in this agreement.
You can read more about the agreement on The Royal Danish Library''s website here: https://pro.kb.dk/en/licensing/wiley-agreement-2022-25
A three-year agreement has been concluded with IOP in the period from 2023 -2025.
The agreement includes the option to publish without APC payment in almost all IOP Publishing journals. The eligible journals are those in List A, B, C, and D here
You can read more about the agreement on The Royal Danish Library's website here: https://pro.kb.dk/licensservice/iop-publishing
The Royal Danish Library has made an agreement on a 250$ APC discount publishing with ACS.
The discount can be changed by the Publisher. See more here
A four-year agreement has been concluded with Springer for the period from march 2023-2026.
The agreement includes the option to publish without APC payment in a number of Springer's hybrid journals.
Find a list of journals included in the agreement via this link (opens in ecxel), and a description of how to use the agreement in the document below.
Please note that there is a national cap on the annual number of published OA articles. When the cap is reached the APC-agreement does not apply. We recommend that you contact forskersupport@kb.dk if you are publishing under funding terms that requires Open Access (e.g. Horizon Europe) before submitting to a journal in this agreement.
You can read more about the agreement on The Royal Danish Library's website here: https://pro.kb.dk/en/licensing/springer-compact
An agreement has been made for a 25% APC discount on articles from Bristol University Press and Policy Press.
You can read more about the agreement directly with the publisher here
The Royal Danish Library has made an agreement on a 500$ APC discount publishing with PNAS.
The discount can be changed by the Publisher. See more here
IMPORTANT INFORMATION.
As of January 1st 2024, the Royal Danish Library has terminated its discount agreement with MDPI. See the full announcement from KB below.
For a number of years, the Royal Danish Library has managed a joint agreement on behalf of the Danish universities with MDPI. MDPI is a golden Open Access publisher, and the main essence of the agreement is that MDPI, based on free membership, gives a 10% discount on their APCs (Article Processing Charge) to corresponding authors from the institutions.
Over the years, the publisher has been exposed to more and more criticism in relation to behavior that is perceived as predatory.
The Royal Danish Library has assessed the increasing criticism, and on that basis chosen to terminate the overall discount agreement at the end of 2023, as there are signs of questionable publishing behaviour, and we have assessed that MDPI as a publisher cannot be supported.
Since MDPI covers a large number of journals, where it is not necessarily all that exhibit predatory behavior, the Royal Danish Library leaves it up to the individual institution and researcher to assess whether they want to continue an agreement themselves and also whether they want to continue publishing at MDPI.
If the above gives rise to any questions, you are very welcome to contact either Head of Department for Licensing Lise Baltzer (lbal@kb.dk) or Head of Department for Research Services Michael Svendsen (misv@kb.dk).