Open Access to publications

Open Access means that scientific publications are made freely available for anyone to read, download, and share.

This can be achieved by publishing in open journals, on open publishing platforms, or through parallel publishing of an approved version in an open repository. The national goal set by the Swedish government is that publicly funded publications should be immediately openly accessible, preferably published with open licenses.

Open Access increases the impact of research, makes results more equally accessible, and enables faster dissemination of knowledge. It also strengthens transparency and validity, which are central to good research practice.

How to do this in your research

Choose open publishing options:

Open Access, External link. Internal portal

If no open publishing option is available for your research, parallel publishing in the digital scientific archive DiVA can be an alternative:

Registering and publishing in DiVA, Internal Portal External link.

Publish your research with an open license that specifies how the text may be used:

Creative Commons for researchers, National Library of Sweden External link.

Creative Commons licenses in scholarly publishing, Umeå University (in Swedish) External link.

Start an openly accessible scientific journal on the national platform Publicera:

Help to start an OA journal, Internal Portal External link.

Publish your research as an openly accessible, peer reviewed book through the platform Kriterium:

Kriterium – quality review and publication of scholarly books Open Access (in Swedish) External link.

If you need help at any stage, contact the University Library:

University Library

Would you like to learn more about Open Access and what it means?

Open Access, National Library of Sweden External link.

Open Access to scholarly publications, Open Science.se External link.