Eligible Authors/Researchers
For the time being, all the agreements with the provision for OA publications support the publication of articles only in scientific electronic journals. To enable OA provision, the corresponding author ought to be affiliated with a HEAL-Link member and state his/her affiliation in the article while the manuscript should be submitted with the author’s institutional email address. Τhere is a detailed description of the eligibility criteria at the end of the page, referring to authors not “actively affiliated” with HEAL-Link members institutions. The detailed list of HEAL-Link Institutional Members can be found here.
Exceptions to non-active members, but eligible under the HEAL-Link agreement, are:
1. Honorary members (Professors): they have the right under certain conditions and strictly by using the institutional email address.
2. Emeriti faculty members: they have the right but strictly by using the institutional email address.
3. Former faculty members: they have the right under certain conditions and strictly by using the institutional email address.
4. Alumni: They have the right for one (1) year after their graduation date.
5. Academic fellows and temporary researchers: they have the right as long as their employment contract lasts plus six months after its end.
There is a provision for other categories to be eligible under the HEAL-Link agreement. Please contact the Scolarly Communication Unit for further details: scholarly@heal-link.gr
Workflow followed by the Scholarly Communication Unit / HEAL-Link
All requests are handled on a first come-first served basis. The Unit is notified of the request after the article is accepted for publication. Then, it contacts the corresponding author to confirm their affiliation with the HEAL-Link member institution stated in the publisher’s system. Based on this, the Unit either approves or rejects the request. The author is also given a timeframe in which to respond. If a researcher does not reply to the Unit’s emails, it will be assumed that they are not interested and the request will be rejected.
APC Coverage
For the agreements with a provision for waived APCs, only the Article Processing Charge (APC) will be covered. Additional charges, such as those for color pages or extra pages, will not be covered, while for the agreements with a discount the author or funding body of the research takes on the remaining cost.
Acknowledgment
It is recommended that you include the following statement when submitting your article:
- For publications that are fully waived from publishing costs, you may state: “The publication of the article in OA mode was financially supported by HEAL-Link.”
- For publications that receive a discount, you may state: “The publication of the article in OA mode was financially supported in part by HEAL-Link.”
Under no circumstances should HEAL-Link be noted as a funding agency, as it only covers the publishing costs in OA mode and not research funding.
Fully waived from APC
Unlimited number of publications
Royal Society of Chemistry
Wiley
Oxford University Press
Institute of Physics
ACM
ACS
Limited number of publications
SpringerNature
HEAL1000
Collaborating publishers without Open Access services
