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List of Publishers with MPS-OA agreement (in alphabetical order)

 

BioMed Central

Since 2004 Max Planck Society has an agreement with BioMed Central, one of the largest Open Access Publishers with a focus on medicine and biology. For further details please refer to their website or this short information by Max Planck Society.


Copernicus

Copernicus is a genuin Open Access Publisher in the fields of Geo- and Earth system sciences. The agreement between the publisher and Max Planck Society was signed in January 2008. For further details please refer to their website or this Press Release.


IOP/New Journal of Physics

New Journal of Physics is an Open Access journal co-owned by the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft und Institute of Physics (IOP). Max Planck Society entered into the agreement in 2006. For further details please refer to their website or this Press Release.


Public Library of Science (PLoS)

The agreement between the Max Planck Society and PLoS refers to all articles where a Max Planck scientists is the corresponding author and which were accepted for publication in a PLoS journal after July, 1st, 2008. For further details please refer to this Press Release


Springer 2008 - 2009

Springer is a hybrid publisher with an Open Access scheme entitled linkPfeilExternOpen Choice. Articles published under this scheme, which is based on publications fee, are Open Access even so the journal is toll access (c.p. hybrid journal, Golden Road). In the beginning of 2008 Max Planck Society entered into a combined agreement with Springer including both the costs for subscriptions and the Open Access scheme. For further details please refer to this linkPfeilExternPress Release


Details for the publication of articles of authors affiliated with Max Planck Society at Springer's Open Choice Program

As part of the 2008-2009 agreement between the Max Planck Society and Springer, any author affiliated with a Max Planck Institute was entitled to publish his/her journal articles open access in Springer's Open Choice program at no additional costs. This applied to all journal articles which were accepted by Springer between January 1st, 2008 and December 31st, 2009. The agreement concerning Open Choice did not extend to articles in Springer book serials.

Even though the agreement between the Max Planck Society and Springer ended on December 31st , 2009, authors whose articles were accepted between January 1st , 2008 and December 31st , 2009 still have the possibility to obtain Open Choice status for these articles. If your article was accepted by Springer in the time frame mentioned and you want your article to get the Open Choice status retroactively, please contact mailJuliane Pohl.