Open Access
If you are thinking of publishing your paper Open Access, you will find below a number of useful links that will help you make the best of it. If you have questions and feel confused about OA, please never hesitate to contact your librarian Juliane Deichsel.
Where to publish?
Open Access agreements
Central Open Access publisher agreements: Article charges covered by MPDL; Terms and conditions for Max Planck Authors (without central funding)
SHERPA/RoMEO
Information about publisher copyright policies & self-archiving
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
Directory of open access, peer-reviewed journals
Creative Commons Licenses
a standardized way to grant the public permission to use your creative work under copyright law
About Open Access
MPDL Open Access Support
Gold and Green Open Access
Open Access Ambassadors
to disseminate and multiply the principles of Open Access and Open Science from young scientists to young scientists
open-access.net
Information plattform for Open Access
Berlin Declaration and Follow-up Conferences
A milestone of the Open Access movement
Open Access Journals at the MPS
eLife
a researcher-led, open access digital publication for outstanding research in life science and biomedicine
From July 2021 eLife will only review manuscripts already published as preprints, and will focus its editorial process on producing public reviews to be posted alongside the preprints. Peer Review: Implementing a "publish, then review" model of publishing and an interview at ScienceInsider (Dec,2020) In biology publishing shakeup, eLife will require submissions to be posted as preprints
Open Repositories
MPG.PuRe
Max Planck Society publication repository
Open Research Europe (ORE)
open access platform by The European Commission for publishing research funded through the Horizon Europe research programme and its predecessor Horizon 2020, free of charge
arXiv
an open-access archive for 1,806,638 scholarly articles in the fields of physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology
bioRxiv
a free online archive and distribution service for unpublished preprints in the life sciences
MedRxiv
the preprint server for Health Sciences
Biological Magnetic Resonance Data Bank
a repository for data from NMR Spectroscopy on Proteins, Peptides, Nucleic Acids, and other Biomolecules
BioDare - Biological Data Repository
provides access to datasets relating to circadian and biological data
Dryad
provides access to research datasets relating to published peer-reviewed articles