Effective 1st January 2020, Authors affiliated with institutions in the UNIT consortium may publish primary research and review articles in open access in any of De Gruyter’s Hybrid Open Access journals. No upfront payment is necessary. Your institution covers the cost of publication.

The article's corresponding author must be from an eligible university and the article must have been accepted on or after 1st January 2020.

The agreement also makes it possible for researchers affiliated with institutions in the UNIT consortium 107 to publish in pure open access journals at a discounted rate of 20%.

De Gruyter’s 305 online hybrid journals – no upfront payment by author; institution pays
De Gruyter’s Pure Open Access journals – 20% discount on the APCs

Eligible Authors may include and make available the final version (Publisher PDF version) in the institutional repository of the Institution and on the personal web pages of the employee concerned.

Articles are made available under the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 or the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial 4.0 License.

ELIGIBLE INSTITUTIONS

NTNU: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
UiT The Arctic University of Norway
University of Bergen
University of Oslo

ELIGIBLE AUTHORS

Teaching and research staff employed by or otherwise accredited to one of the Eligible Institutions as well as students enrolled or accredited to one of the Institutions.

In case of articles published by multiple authors, the corresponding author will be the Eligible author. Corresponding author shall be the author who signs the publishing agreement.Authors are only eligible once they have signed the then current open access publishing agreement with the Publisher. Currently this agreement refers to the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 or the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial 4.0 License for a few journals.

ELIGIBLE ARTICLE TYPES

The following standards have to be met by the open access articles:

Articles have to be original and not infringe on any law and/or third party right and meet ethical standards
Original Paper – Standard article, usually presenting new results; articles published under this article type may also be referred to as Original Research, Original Article, Original Paper or Research Paper
Review Paper – Standard article, interpreting previously published results.
Brief Communication – Short article submitted for rapid publication that exhibits the same structure as a standard article.
Continuing Education – Article forming integral part of further education (usually medical).
Case Reports – Articles in medical journals.

HOW TO PUBLISH YOUR ARTICLE IN OPEN ACCESS

Hybrid Journals (305 titles):

Eligible articles will be published in OA by default. If eligible, no upfront APC is payable. De Gruyter issues a Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 and the article is published in Open Access. That's it! Your institution will cover the article publication charge. Your article will be made open access immediately on publication.

Pure Open Access Journals (107 titles):

Submit Your Article to the De Gruyter journal editors. Instructions on how to submit are specified on each journal webpage under the Submission of Manuscripts tab.

Eligible authors are given a discount of 20% of the APC. De Gruyter issues a Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 and the article is published in Open Access.

OAAM Workflow for hybrid and pure OA journals – Seek funding

In the CCC interface, please select “Seek Funding [your University]”. Agreement details will appear on the screen. Please select “OK” to proceed.
Upon acceptance of the article, the corresponding author receives an email. Please click on the blue button in the email body. This will direct you to the Copyright Clearance Center (CCC) software. Please note: You will need a CCC account to complete your payment.
You will receive an email which is the confirmation of your eligibility for OA funding. Click on the link in the email body, which will take you back to the CCC to continue the workflow.
On the next screen, in the section “Open Access charge” select “I agree” from the dropdown menu and select “Next” to proceed.
Review your payment details on the next screen and if all details are correct and you are happy with your order please select “Submit for Approval” button.
Please note that in the case of no costs, you still have to follow the payment process with a zero transaction. Otherwise our team will not be informed about your decision to publish OA.”
De Gruyter issues a Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 (CC BY) and the article is published in Open Access.

OUR DE GRUYTER STORY

De Gruyter has been publishing excellent academic works for more than 270 years. Since our founding days, we have kept our fingers firmly on the pulse – so it is only logical that we were an early adopter and passionate advocate of open access.

In 2010, De Gruyter published the Handbuch Bibliothek 2.0 (Handbook Library 2.0), its first open access publication. Two years later, we acquired Versita, a fully open-access publisher that is now called Sciendo and provides services for societies, universities and researchers. In 2013, the humanities open access journal Sociocultural Pragmatics appeared for the first time, while in 2015, we started converting subscription journals to open access. Finally, in 2019, De Gruyter extended this practice to books and launched pilot models to move entire book series to open access.

The results speak for themselves: two-thirds of De Gruyter’s journals portfolio is now published open access, and with more than 3,000 open access books available on degruyter.com we are one of the largest publishers of open access books in the world.

CONTACT

For any questions, please contact Łukasz Gworek: Lukasz.Gworek@degruyter.com

Most communication about national Open Access deals in Norway with publishers, including Walter de Gruyter, are now channelled and communicated through openaccess.nl, the national website of open access in Norway.