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 since January 2023

• Annual Reviews
  The publication fee for open access is waived in all journals by subscribe to open.
• Copernicus Publications
  You do not pay a publication fee for your open access articles.
• Emerald
  You do not pay a publication fee for your open access articles.
• John Benjamins Publishing Company
  You do not pay a publication fee for your open access articles.
• MDPI
  You will receive a 10% discount on your Open Access articles.
• MSP-Journals
  You do not pay a publication fee for your open access articles.
• PLOS
  You do not pay a publication fee for your open access articles in the 12 PLOS-Journals.
• Projekt DEAL mit Wiley und Springer Nature
  The contracts were each renewed until 31.12.2023.

We have agreements with the following publishers and publication portals:

• The Company of Biologists
• Copernicus Publications
• Emerald
• Hogrefe
• John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Karger
• MDPI - Publisher of Open Access Journals
• MSP - Mathematical Science Publishers
• OLH - Open Library of Humanites
• PLOS - Public Library of Science
• 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 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".

• From 2023, subscribe-to-open will eliminate the APC for an open access publication in the publisher's overall Annual Reviews journal portfolio.

• 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!