Open Access Publishing

BioMed Central (BMC)

Corresponding author

All BMC journals

Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals (BQFJ)

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All BQFJ titles

Copernicus

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All Copernicus journals

eLIFE

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eLIFE

Frontiers

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All Frontiers journals

IOP OA Gold Journals

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New Journal of Physics

Environmental Research Letters

Journal of Physics Communications

The IOP open access agreement centrally covers the open access charges for Max Planck affiliated corresponding authors in selected IOP subscription journals.

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Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)

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All MDPI journals

PeerJ

MPDL covers "Enhanced Publication Plan" for all Max Planck authors. Alternatively, one-time APCs for Max Planck corresponding authors will be covered.

PeerJ

Public Library of Science (PLoS)

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All PLoS journals

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) / RSC "Read & Publish"

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The RSC "Read & Publish" agreement centrally covers the open access charge for affiliated corresponding authors in those subscription-based journals that offer the hybrid open access option and that also have a Creative Commons Attribution license (CC-BY).

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ScienceOpen [Pilot agreement]

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ScienceOpen Research & ScienceOpen Posters

SPIE (International Society for Optics and Photonics)

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All SPIE journals

Springer / Springer Compact Agreement

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The Springer Compact agreement centrally covers the open access charge for affiliated corresponding authors in those subscription-based journals that offer the hybrid open access option "Open Choice" and that also have a Creative Commons Attribution license (CC-BY).

Further information

SpringerOpen

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All SpringerOpen journals

Taylor & Francis, Cogent

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Information for authors on publishing with Taylor & Francis

The Royal Society

Submitting or corresponding author

Open Biology

Royal Society Open Science

Wiley Open Access

Submitting author

All Wiley Open Access journals

NOTE: We do NOT cover article charges for Wiley OnlineOpen ("hybrid")

De Gruyter OA Books

Authors affiliated with a Max Planck Institute - authors receive a discount if more than one Open Access monograph is published with De Gruyter - no central payment by MPDL

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Nomos

Authors or editors affiliated with a Max Planck Institute receiving a print grant from their institute: MPDL covers costs of a simultaneous open access online publication

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AAAS / Science

Corresponding author - All Max Planck corresponding authors may receive institutional savings of up to 30% on APCs because Max Planck Society subscribes to the Complete Science Collection. AAAS members are entitled to receive additional savings - no central payment by MPDL.

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ScienceAdvances

American Chemical Society (ACS)

All Max Planck authors can claim the status of an "All ACS Publications" subscribing institution when they want to make use of ACS' Open Access options - no central payment by MPDL. Note that ACS requires additional fees for Creative Commons licenses.

All titles

Electrochemical Society (ECS)

Corresponding author - All Max Planck corresponding authors are eligible to use the ECS Plus Open Access option without payment of article charges (due to our subscription agreement)

All titles

IOS Press

Corresponding author - All Max Planck corresponding authors receive a 50% discount for article charges for IOS Press’ Open Access option - no central payment by MPDL

All titles

Karger

All Max Planck authors are granted a 50% discount on article processing charges for all genuine Open Access Journals - no central payment by MPDL.

Karger Open Access journals

National Acacemy of Sciences / Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA (PNAS)

Submitting author - All Max Planck submitting authors receive a discount for the Open Access surcharge ($1,100 instead of $1,450) - no central payment by MPDL

PNAS

SAGE

All Max Planck authors are eligible to claim reduced prices for the following OA journals: SAGE Open = 59 GBP, SAGE Open Engineering = 298 GBP, SAGE Open Medicine = 358 GBP, SAGE Open Medicine Case Reports = 268 GBP

SAGE Pure Gold Open Access Journals