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Information about payment of open access charges for IFW publications

Information about open access payment conditions can be found on an information sheet in the intranet.
For any questions please ask Jana Sonnenstuhl: library(at)ifw-dresden.de.

Agreements for IFW publications with different publishers

Consortium agreement between AAAS and Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB) for open access publishing in the journal "Science Advances":

  • time period from 2024 to 2026
  • 15% discount on APCs

You can find more information here.

Read & Publish Agreement between ACS and the Friedrich-Althoff-Consortia for unlimited open access publishing in hybrid journals and Gold Open Access journals::

  • time period from 2024 to 2026

Read & Publish Agreement between AIP and Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB) for open access publishing in hybrid journals:

  • time period from 2024 to 2026
  • free of charge to publish an agreed number of articles
  • Author Guide

Consortium agreement between BMJ und and the Bavarian State Library (BSB) for Open Access publishing in BMJ hybrid journals of the BMJ Journals Online Standard Collection (User Leaflets):

  • time period 2024
  • free of charge, unlimited
  • except The British Medical Journal (The BMJ)
  • Ringgold des IFW: 28394

Read & Publish Agreement between Cambridge University Press (CUP) and Bayerische Staatsbibliothek (BSB) for unlimited open access publishing in CUP hybrid journals and Gold Open Access journals:

  • time period from 2022 to 2024
  • free of charge
  • no automatic identification, IFW-author has to list the IFW at the end of the process and the costs will be reset to zero


Consortium agreement between ECS (The Electrochemical Society) and Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB) for unlimited open access publishing in both hybrid journals JES and JSS:

  • time period 2024
  • free of charge by choosing "ECS Plus"

The DEAL-Elsevier agreement contains:

  • time period from 01 September 2023 to 31 December 2028
  • permantly access rights to almost the entire Elsevier journal portfolio, including the Cell Press and The Lancet titles
  • Open Access Publishing in:
    • in more than 2,500 Elsevier journals, including Cell Press and The Lancet journals
    • 20 % discount on the list price of Article Processing Charges (APCs) for Elsevier Fully Gold journals and a 15 % discount on the list price of Fully Gold Cell Press and The Lancet journals

Additional: Journal title lists, Information about CC-BY license, Elsevier platform DEAL customer hub

Consortium agreement between IOP Publishing (IOP) and Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB) for open access publishing in journals (Publishing Support; Open Physics):

  • time period 2024
  • free of charge
  • automatic identification of IFW corresponding authors in three steps

The Nature Tranformative Agreement for Nature Journals contains:

  • time period from 2021 to 2024
  • reading access to all Nature-branded subscription titles, including 21 Nature Reviews journals and all new launches in the time period of the contract
  • Publishing of open access articles in the journal list ("Eligible journals")

You can find more information in the Author Guide.

RSC Journals / Platinum between Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) and Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB) for open access publishing in RSC hybride journals and open access gold journals:

  • time period from 2024 to 2027
  • free of charge, unlimited
  • automatic identification of IFW corresponding authors via their IFW email address
  • open access licence CC BY is automatically offered
  • Author Guide

SciPost Sponsorship Agreement: open access publishing in all journals from SciPost

  • time period from 2024 to 2026
  • for free

DEAL-Springer Nature agreement:

  • time period from 2024 to 2028
  • access to current volumes of all 1900 Springer journals during the contract duration, access to all Springer-Nature journals during contract duration
  • Open Access Publishing in:
    • about 1900 journals, starting 1 January 2020, prefer choosing Open Access
    • about 600 gold open access journals including "Scientific Reports" and "Nature Communications", starting 1 August 2020, 20 % discount on APCs in Springer-OPEN and BMC journals

You can find more information here and on the fact sheet.
Additional: DEAL Konsortium by the MPDL Services gGmbH (journal title list with APCs included, column "Current DEAL Cost contribution"), Information about CC-BY licenses

Taylor & Francis Journals Transformation-Agreement between Taylor & Francis and the ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics for open access publishing in hybride journals and open access gold journals:

  • time period 2024
  • hybrid journals: free of charge
  • open access gold journals: 15 % discount

Consortium agreement Scientific.Net: Materials Science and Engineering / Read & Publish between TransTech Publications Ltd. (TTP) and Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB) for open access publishing in hybride journals and open access gold journals:

  • time period from 2024 to 2026
  • free of charge, unlimited
  • automatic identification of IFW corresponding authors
  • open access licence CC BY is automatically offered

DEAL Agreement with Wiley:

  • time period from 2024 to 2028
  • permanent reading rights apply to content published during their participation years, nearly all journal content on the Wiley Online Library platform according to the journal title list
  • Open Access Publishing in:
    • Hybrid Open Access (Author guide): in more than 1300 Subskriptionszeitschriften ("Hybrid Open Access" option)
    • Gold Open Access (Author guide): 20 % discount of the APCs in over 600 journals
  • no costs for page charges in all open access gold journals

Information about Author resources, e. g. "How to sign up your article license?", Publication Process
Additional: DEAL consortia of the MPDL Services gGmbH (incl. journal title list with APCs in column "EUR APC, Discounted (20%)"), Information about CC licenses