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.
New from January 2024
- Cambridge University Press (no publication fee)
We participate in the open access transformation contract with CUP. The contract runs until 31 December 2024. - Projekt DEAL with Elsevier, Springer Nature and Wiley (please ask for publication fee)
The contracts were each renewed until 31.12.2028. - Rockefeller University Press (no publication fee)
We participate in the Read an Publish Agreement with RUP. The agreement runs until 31 December 2024.
We have agreements with the following publishers and publication portals:
- The Company of Biologists (no publication fee)
- Copernicus Publications (no publication fee)
- Elsevier: Projekt DEAL (please ask for publication fee)
- Emerald (no publication fee)
- 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)
- OLH - Open Library of Humanites (no publication fee)
- PLOS - Public Library of Science (no publication fee)
- Royal Society of Chemistry (no publication fee)
- SciPost (no publication fee)
- Springer Nature: Projekt DEAL (please ask for publication fee)
- Springer Nature: Framework agreement Nature journals (please ask for publication fee)
- Wiley: Projekt DEAL (please ask for publication fee)
Further individual offers:
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Subscribe-to-open eliminates the APC for an open access publication in the three Berghahn journals in anthropology: "Environment and Society", "Social Analysis: The International Journal of Cultural and Social Practice", "The Cambridge journal of anthropology", and "Social Anthropology".
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From 2023, subscribe-to-open will eliminate the APC for an open access publication in the publisher's overall Annual Reviews journal portfolio.
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15% discount on the APC for an 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). Authors can get an overview of how to apply for a partnership discount for Science Advances, the gold open-access journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. (AAAS). - 15% discount on the APC for an open access publication in the journal "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America" (PNAS)
Do you have any questions? We will be glad to help you!
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Team Zeitschriften Open Access