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:

• Hogrefe
• OLH - Open Library of Humanites
• Royal Society of Chemistry
• SciPost
• Springer Nature: Projekt DEAL
• Springer Nature: Framework agreement Nature journals
• Wiley

Further individual offers:

• Subscribe-to-open eliminates the APC for an open access publication in currently 8 journals of the publisher "Annual Reviews". This also applies to 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".

• 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!