Publisher Agreements

Leuphana has entered into agreements for open access publishing with several publishers to support its researchers financially and organisationally. These agreements offer authors to publish open access either at a discount or free of charge. The following list provides an overview of the conditions and workflows of individual publishers with whom agreements exist.

►  In addition to publishing agreements, funding is possible through the Open Access Publication Fund.

► You can use the Leuphana B!SON version to search for open access journals and to display information on funding opportunities at Leuphana for each journal.
 

Notes

In order to be eligible for funding, the corresponding author (Wiley: responsible corresponding author) must be affiliated with Leuphana Universität Lüneburg and must indicate this institution when submitting the manuscript. Please submit your articles using your Leuphana email address and – whenever possible – your ORCID iD. Regarding the choice of a Creative Commons license, we strongly recommend CC BY 4.0, as this is open access compliant.

Hybrid Open Access: Hybrid journals are subscription-based journals in which authors can choose to publish their articles either behind a paywall or open access.

Gold Open Access: In gold (genuine/fully) open access journals all articles are published open access.

  • Springer Nature (DEAL)
  • Wiley (DEAL)
  • Nature
  • Cambridge University Press (CUP)
  • De Gruyter
  • Frontiers
  • Hogrefe (PsyJournals)
  • SAGE

Springer Nature (DEAL)

(2023)


Hybrid Open Access: Free of charge (in Open Choice journals)
Eligible article types: Research Articles (= Original Paper, Review Paper, Brief Communication) and Non-Research Articles (= Editorial Notes, Book Reviews, Letters, Reports (except for: Non-Research Articles in specialist medical journals).

Gold Open Access: 20 % discount (in BioMed Central and Springer Open journals)
Eligible article types: only Research Articles (= Original Paper, Review Paper, Brief Communication)

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All eligible hybrid journals can be filtered via column H (Publishing Model = Hybrid (Open Choice)). Subscription-only and Hybrid (Third Party) model journals are not covered by this contract. Column R (BMC Discount = yes) can be used to filter fully open access journals to which the 20 % discount applies.

Further information on the procedure can be found on the publisher's website. Information on DEAL with Springer Nature can be found here.

Wiley (DEAL)

(2023)


Hybrid Open Access: Free of charge, ONLY for corresponding authors with an employment relationship to Leuphana
Gold Open Access: 20 % discount

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Further information on the procedure can be found on the publisher's website. Information on DEAL with Wiley can be found here.

Notes:

  • Eligible article types: "Primary Research Article" and "Review Article". By contrast, editorials such as "Letters" or book reviews are not eligible for funding.
  • Only the "Responsible Corresponding Author", who must be affiliated with Leuphana, is eligible for funding.
  • Wiley offers authors the opportunity to convert their articles, which have already been published in hybrid journals, open access retrospectively and free of charge.This applies to articles with an acceptance date from 1 July 2019. A prerequisite is that the corresponding author of the article is affiliated with Leuphana. The corresponding author can transform the article via the Wiley Author Services platform by navigating to the publication and selecting the OnlineOpen option.

Nature

(2022–2024)


Hybrid Open Access: Free of charge (in Nature and Nature research journals)

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All eligible journals can be filtered via column H (Publishing Model = Transformative). Further information can be found on the publisher's website.

Cambridge University Press (CUP)

(2022–2024)


Hybrid Open Access: Free of charge

Gold Open Access: Free of charge

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For more information see the step-by-step guide and open access publishing workflow.

De Gruyter

(2023-2024)


Hybrid Open Access: Free of charge
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Gold Open Access: 20 % discount
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Frontiers

Due to an institutional membership with Frontiers, invoices can be addressed centrally to the University Library so that the invoice amount can be paid directly via the Open Access Publication Fund. A prerequisite for central invoicing is that the funding criteria of the Publication Fund are met.

Hogrefe (PsyJournals)

(2021–2023)


Hybrid Open Access: Free of charge (in OpenMind journals of the PsyJournals portfolio)

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Further information can be found on the publisher's website.

SAGE

(2021–2023)


Hybrid Open Access: Free of charge (in selected SAGE Choice Journals from the HSS package)
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For more information on the hybrid open access programme SAGE Choice, please visit the publisher's website.


Gold Open Access: 20 % discount
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Green Open Access: Authors of Leuphana are eligible to enter their articles, which are published in the licensed journals, in the published version (publisher's PDF) into the research information system Pure with an embargo of one year. More information on this can be found on the publisher's website.

Contact

Gesa Baron
Universitätsallee 1, CB.107
21335 Lüneburg
Fon +49.4131.677-1183
gesa.baron@leuphana.de

Martin Bilz
Universitätsallee 1, CB.105
21335 Lüneburg
Fon +49.4131.677-1113
martin.bilz@leuphana.de