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Springer Nature (DEAL contract)

For 2023

 

The JLU Giessen participates in the DEAL contract with Springer Nature. The contract enables Open Acess publishing in SpringerNature journals in two ways.

Publishing in a Gold Open Access Journal

In a gold open access journal all articles are published freely available without an embargo, but an article processing charge (APC) has to be paid. The DEAL contract grants a 20% discount on the APCs, if the corresponding author has a JLU-affiliation. The journals "Nature Communications" and "Scientific Reports" are excluded for the discount.

The open access team will receive a notification upon acceptance and will contact you for details about the payment.

For APCs up to 2.000 € the JLU OA publication fund covers 50% of the costs. APCs above 2.000 € can be supported by JLU funds with 1.000 € (incl. VAT). As junior scientist in their PhD process or with a PhD-graduation that is not older than five year the JLU OA publication fund covers 75% and a maximum of 1.500 €.

Publishing in a hybrid journal

A hybrid journal publishes single articles in open access usually after paying an optional fee. The DEAL contract enables to publish manuscripts open access without paying such a fee, if the corresponding author has a JLU-affiliation. The costs are covered by the DEAL contract.

 

You can download a list of journals that is updated on a regular basis to see which journal is gold open access and which is hybrid.