AHO covers author payment expenses (Article Processing Charges, APC, Article Submission Charges and similar) in Open Access journals and books.
Applications that meet the criteria will be processed on an ongoing basis. Note that the publication fund has limited funds that apply per calendar year.
Criteria for Support
Articles and books that receive support must be available openly online without barriers to access such as login or IP filtering.
The journal or book publisher must have clear guidelines for open access and the price of author payment, and this information should be available on the publisher's website.
Application Process and Requirements
The applicant must be an employee or student at AHO and be a corresponding author for articles, or author of a monograph or editor of an anthology. The corresponding author is the author/authors responsible for submitting the article and follow-up of the publication process at the publisher. The affiliation must appear in the publication's indication of institutional affiliation.
The maximum amount covered per article, anthology chapter or monograph is NOK 30,000. Support is not given to cover expenses for colour printing, extra illustrations, large volumes and the like.
Support is only given to cover author payment for articles that have been accepted for publication. Support is not given to articles that have been submitted but not accepted, or to articles that have already been published.
- Article/monograph/chapter that receives support must be registered in The Norwegian Research Information Repository (NVA)
- Supported articles or books must meet the criteria for a scientific publication according to the Norwegian publication indicator.
- The journal must be on level 1 or 2 in Norwegian Register for Scientific Journals, Series and Publishers of publication channels.
- The same requirement applies to publishers of monographs/anthologies.
Management and Guidelines
The fund is managed by the prorector for research and the AHO library.
The guidelines may be changed without notice but without retroactive effect for applications that have already been processed.
How to apply
The application form is available from the library.