Information for Max Planck Authors
The Max Planck Society’s Read & Publish Agreement with De Gruyter Brill (DGB) includes access to DGB’s full journal collection as well as allowing authors to publish open access. The Open Access agreement with the Max Planck Society centrally covers the open access charges for affiliated corresponding authors in DGB's hybrid, fully open access and S2O journals under a Creative Commons Attribution license (CC BY). You can find a list of all eligible DGB journals on the MPG OA Journal Finder.
In order to make use of the agreement, please make sure to meet the following conditions when publishing with De Gruyter Brill:
- The article has been accepted by an DGB journal that offers a CC BY license. Please observe that the agreement requires authors to select the CC BY license, not CC BY-NC or CC BY-NC-ND.
- A Max Planck author must be the corresponding author of the article.
- The author is affiliated with a Max Planck Institute and publishes under this affiliation – the Max Planck Institute must be stated in the article
- The acceptance date of the article is between Jan. 1, 2026 and Dec. 31, 2027.
- The article matches one of these types: Original article, research article, review article, report, commentary, case report/study, rapid communication, book review, letter, editorial (if it is scientific)
- Charges for additional options (page charges, color-in-print, posters etc.) are NOT covered by this agreement.
Please be advised that DGB uses the Copyright Clearance Center (CCC) for their workflow. Authors will receive a notification from DGB to set up an account with CCC after acceptance.
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