openpublishing@oulu.fi
Article processing charges (APC) are costs of immediate open access. These fees differ by publisher and journal. Some of the journals that require APC are fully open (Gold OA), while some - the so called hybrid journals - can make individual articles open access when an APC is paid.
Research units are responsible for open access fees. However, several journal agreements include open access discounts where the corresponding authors can publish open access articles without having to pay the APC or they might get a discount. You are entitled to a discount if the corresponding author of an article is affiliated to the University of Oulu or Oulu University Hospital.
The conditions and processes for utilizing the benefits differ by publisher. Note that some agreements include a predefined quota of articles that might run out before the agreement term ends. Additionally, in most cases open access discounts only apply when the article has been be accepted for publication during the agreement term. Information on ongoing negotiations can be found here.
University of Oulu including Oulu University Hospital currently has the following agreements:
ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)
BMC (BioMed Central) (University only)
Company of Biologists (University only)
CUP (Cambridge University Press)
Elsevier
Elsevier Cell Press
Emerald
IEEE
Nature Research
OUP (Oxford University Press)
RSC (Royal Society of Chemistry)
SAGE
SCOAP3
Springer Nature
Taylor & Francis
Wiley
Wolters Kluwer Lippincott
