Cost of publishing
Lund University has agreements with several publishers, which provide discounted publication fees for authors from LU in relation to the publishers' list price.
Part of the publication cost is paid by LU centrally and then the rest of the cost is distributed to the faculties based on the size of the research revenue. The faculty, in turn, then invoices the publishing researcher this part of the cost of the publication. The same applies if you publish in pure open access journals that are not included in any of the publishing agreements. At the Faculty of Medicine, this means that everyone who publishes articles, regardless of publication, pays 15% of the list price for the publication themselves.
UB pays part of the cost of publication and then distributes the rest of the costs to the faculties. Thereafter, the faculty forwards the remaining cost to the publishing researcher/research group.
This means that you as an author pay 15%* of the list price for the publication.
Note: If when you submit your article it says that "your university pays", this means that the university handles the transfer of the money, but you still pay 15% of the cost yourself at a later stage.
*This percentage applies to the current time period, but may be adjusted in connection with the next billing period.
UB pays part of the cost of publication and then distributes the rest of the costs to each faculty twice a year, in May and November.
Thereafter, the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences invoices the publishing researcher/research group these costs.
You who publish will thus receive two invoices per year from the faculty, one in June and one in December, on the 15%* of the list price that you must pay.
*This percentage applies to the current time period, but may be adjusted in connection with the next billing period.
Everyone at the Faculty of Medicine who publishes, regardless of publication, must pay for the publication. What you pay is 15% of the list price for the publication (the percentage may be adjusted in connection with the next billing).
Note: If when you submit your article it says that "your university pays", this means that the university handles the transfer of the money, but you still pay 15% of the cost yourself at a later stage.
Contact
For publication matters please contact the library at
Library & ICT Research Support (web form)
For questions about invoices please contact:
Support Sektionen Ekonomi (web form, in Swedish)
UB's information about open access
The links below go to the Lund University Library's website.