Danish universities work with their own institutional policies for Open Access to scientific articles and provide guidance to their researchers on Open Access.
Here you can click through to read more about the universities' work with Open Access. At the bottom of the page, you can see who can help researchers publish Open Access.
Aarhus University has an Open Access policy that supports the vision of the 2018 national Open Access strategy and aims to create free access for all citizens, researchers, and companies to research publications produced as part of the research at AU. The university's researchers are recommended to ensure unobstructed digital access to peer-reviewed research articles for the general public. Freedom of research and an absolute requirement for quality assurance still apply. AU’s policy on OA, or the ambitious goals in the national strategy, is therefore not a restriction on the individual researcher's free choice of publication channel.
At AAU, Open Access to research is a guiding principle, which must not, however, compromise the ambition to publish high-quality research in relevant publication channels where Open Access is not an option. AAU works with Open Access on multiple levels; AAU provides guidance on the possibilities for Open Access publishing, including parallel publishing, copyright, and the use of national publishing agreements. Furthermore, AAU offers Open Access publishing through the publisher Aalborg University Open Publishing.
Copenhagen Business School (CBS) considers it a core part of its mission to take responsibility for bringing knowledge and new perspectives not only to students, businesses, and the academic community – but also to society as a whole. Open Access is an excellent means of fulfilling this mission, and with the awareness that disseminating research results as widely as possible is one of the fundamental principles of research, CBS will work to ensure access for everyone to research from CBS.
DTU endorses the national strategy for Open Access from 2018, and Open Access is part of DTU's publishing policy. Fully in line with the national strategy, DTU’s publishing policy recommends Green Open Access. DTU’s publishing policy also recommends that researchers use the most relevant and recognized publishing channels, publish in Open Access journals when these are highly acclaimed, and as a minimum retain the right to self-archiving in DTU's research database, DTU Orbit.
The IT University believes that Open Access is important for good research. The IT University hosts the Open Access/ peer-reviewed journal Game Studies and is generally positive towards the use of Open Access publishing, as long as it does not compromise research quality and can be responsibly funded.
In April 2012, UCPH decided to implement Green Open Access publishing to the widest possible extent, but on a voluntary basis.
Roskilde University seeks to ensure free and open access to the university's research and therefore wishes to promote publishing that provides the opportunity for free access (Open Access) to research results.
SDU has endorsed the national strategy for Open Access from 2018, which aims to ensure that all publicly funded research is accessible. In 2018, the University of Southern Denmark adopted an Open Science policy, which was revised in October 2024. The policy was developed by SDU, but tailored operationalizations have been prepared by all departments. This means that SDU works purposefully to make research publications accessible to everyone via SDU’s research database.
Title: Senior Adviser
Email: hki@ufm.dk
Phone: +45 7231 8246
