| GENERAL INFORMATION | |
| Publisher | Pensoft Publishers |
| Agreement ID | pensoft2026bibsam |
| Agreement labeling | Pensoft Publishing Agreement |
| Is the agreement document publicly available? | No |
| Agreement period | 1/1/2026 – 12/31/2026 |
| Consortia / Institution | Bibsam Consortium |
| Country | Sweden |
| COST | |
| Comments on cost development | This is a new agreement that covers publishing for all the institution in the Bibsam Consortium. The fee is paid directly by the Swedish research funders, and the agreement is signed by the National Library of Sweden. |
| Read-access costs
If the agreement includes read access to subscription content, is a split of the cost between read access and publishing services defined? |
No |
| PUBLISHING-RELATED TERMS | |
| Publication output
What is the approximate number of annual corresponding author publications from your institution/consortium with the publisher (in closed, hybrid and fully OA journals)? |
10 |
| Is the agreement’s provision for OA publishing capped (e.g., limited to a specific number of articles per year) or uncapped? | Capped |
| What is the publication cap per year? | As long as the deposit lasts |
| Coverage
Are all journals relevant to your affiliated authors (i.e., journals in which you expect them to publish) eligible for OA publishing under the agreement? |
Yes |
| Are APC-based full open access journals covered by the agreement? | Yes, the agreement only covers APC-based fully OA titles (publishing-only agreement) |
| Are journals operating under other business models (S2O, Diamond OA, etc.) covered by the agreement? | No |
| Article types
Eligible article types |
Original research articles, Review articles, Proceedings, Letters, Editorials. Agreement covers all article types that are eligible for Open Access. |
| Risk sharing
What risk-sharing mechanisms exist in cases of exceeding or not reaching the anticipated number of OA publications under the agreement? |
No risk-sharing mechanism |
| OA WORKFLOW | |
| Author workflow and verification
The date for articles’ eligibility is based on: |
Approval date |
| Describe the mechanisms used by the publisher for matching authors with an eligible institution: | Email domain verification |
| How do consortia or institutions verify author eligibility and approve OA funding? | No process in place (publications are deemed automatically verified/approved) |
| Does the agreement include mechanisms to correct mistakenly approved, missed, or not approved publications (e.g., retrospective OA conversion of closed articles or refunding paid APCs)? | No |
| Does the publisher’s reporting on publications satisfy the needs of your institution (frequency, metadata fields, data quality, etc.)? | Yes |
| May authors be charged additional publication fees (such as page charges, article development charges, etc.)? | No |
| How would you assess the practical implementation of the agreement? | Ok |
| PUBLISHING LICENSES | |
| Author’s licenses
Open access license types included |
CC BY mandatory |
| Has the author workflow been customized to direct authors to a certain license (e.g., by making the option for CC BY the preselected default)? | Not part of the negotiations/not discussed |
| If the agreement covers licenses more restrictive than CC BY, do the License to Publish agreements (LtPs) offered to authors differ from the publisher’s standard LtP? | Not part of the negotiations/not discussed |
| In addition to the OA publishing provision, does the agreement include mechanisms to make author accepted manuscripts open access? | No |
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