Our contracts with scientific publishers

You would like to publish in a journal that charges article processing charges? Here you can get an overview of the publishers and publication portals that do not charge members of the University of Cologne or offer discounts on APCs.

Our contracts with scientific publishers

You would like to publish in a journal that asks for Article Processing Charges? Here you can get an overview of the publishers and publication portals that do not charge members of the University of Cologne or offer discounts on APCs.

We have agreements with the following publishers and publication portals:

• American Physiological Society - Through the Subscribe to Open (S2O) model, members of the University of Cologne/University Hospital Cologne can publish free of charge in the following seven “American Journal of Physiology” journals: -Cell Physiology, -Endocrinology and Metabolism, -Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology, -Heart and Circulatory Physiology, -Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology, -Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology.
• American Society for Microbiology (ASM) - Through the Subscribe to Open (S2O) model, members of the University of Cologne/University Hospital Cologne can publish free of charge in the following journals: “Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy”, “Applied and Environmental Microbiology”, “Infection and Immunity”, “Journal of Bacteriology”, “Journal of Clinical Microbiology” and “Journal of Virology”.
• Annual Reviews - Starting in 2023, APCs will no longer apply to open access publications in the Annual Reviews portfolio of journals due to subscribe-to-open.
• Berghahn - Through subscribe-to-open, the APCs for the three Berghahn journals of ethnology are waived upon open access publication: “Environment and Society”, “Social Analysis: The International Journal of Cultural and Social Practice”, “The Cambridge journal of anthropology” and “Social Anthropology”.
• Cambridge University Press
• The Company of Biologists (no publication fee)
• Copernicus Publications (no publication fee)
• Elsevier: Projekt DEAL (please ask for publication fee)
• Emerald (no publication fee)
• Frontiers
• Hogrefe (no publication fee)
• John Benjamins Publishing Company (no publication fee)
• MDPI - Publisher of Open Access Journals (discounted publication fee)
• MSP - Mathematical Science Publishers (no publication fee)
• Muse-Premium-Zeitschriften - The University of Cologne allows its members to publish free of charge using the Subscribe to Open (S2O) model. You can find the title list here.
• National Academy of Sciences - 15% discount on the APP for an open access publication in the journal “Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America” (PNAS)
• OLH - Open Library of Humanites (no publication fee)
• PLOS - Public Library of Science (no publication fee)
• Portland Press - Through the Subscribe to Open (S2O) model, members of the University of Cologne/University Hospital Cologne can publish free of charge in the two journals “Biochemical Journal” and “Biochemical Society Transactions”.
• Rockerfeller University Press
• Royal Society of Chemistry (no publication fee)
• Science Advances - 15% discount on APCs for open access publication in the journal Science Advances. Science Advances - Article Processing Charges (APCs) for Science Advances - How authors can apply an affiliation Discount (PDF 611kb). This document provides authors with an overview of how to apply for an affiliation discount for Science Advances, the gold open access journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
• SciPost (no publication fee)
• Springer Nature: Projekt DEAL (please ask for publication fee)
• Wiley: Projekt DEAL (please ask for publication fee)

Do you have any questions? We will be glad to help you!