Publisher Agreements
The Media and Information Centre (MIZ) at Leuphana University has established agreements with publishers to provide financial and organizational support to its researchers for Open Access publishing. The following list offers an overview of the terms and conditions for each publisher under these agreements. Depending on whether the journal is a fully/gold Open Access journal (= all articles are published Open Access) or a hybrid journal (= articles can optionally be published Open Access), Open Access publishing may either be discounted or entirely free of charge.
To qualify for these funding opportunities, the (submitting/responsible) corresponding author must be affiliated with Leuphana University Lüneburg and must list Leuphana as their primary affiliation when submitting the manuscript. Please ensure you use your Leuphana email address and, whenever possible, include your ORCID iD when submitting your articles.
► We strongly recommend choosing the Creative Commons license CC BY 4.0, as it complies with Open Access standards. The benefits of this license are explained here and here.
► Articles in fully/gold Open Access journals (where all articles are published Open Access) can also be supported through the Open Access Publication Fund.
► Using the Leuphana-specific version of B!SON, you can search for suitable Open Access journals and view information about available funding options at Leuphana for each journal.
Elsevier (DEAL)
Eligible are Submitting Corresponding Authors of Leuphana
Hybrid Open Access: free of charge
Gold Open Access: 20 % discount on Elsevier open access journals and 15 % discount on the list prices of Cell Press and The Lancet journals. The remaining amount may be financed by the Open Access Publication Fund.
Springer Nature (DEAL)
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). The remaining amount may be financed by the Open Access Publication Fund. 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)
Eligible are Responsible Corresponding Authors of Leuphana
Hybrid Open Access: Free of charge
Gold Open Access: 20 % discount. The remaining amount may be financed by the Open Access Publication Fund.
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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.
Eligible article types: "Primary Research Article" and "Review Article". By contrast, editorials such as "Letters" or book reviews are not eligible for funding.
Nature
Hybrid Open Access: Free of charge(in Nature and Nature research journals)
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Nature Reviews Journals and Nature Protocols are excluded.
Further information can be found on the publisher's website.
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Hybrid Open Access: Free of charge
Gold Open Access: Free of charge
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Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Hybrid Open Access: Free of charge
Gold Open Access: Free of charge
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. The remaining amount may be financed by the Open Access Publication Fund.
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Frontiers
Gold Open Access: 10 % discount
nvoices can be sent to the university library, so that the remaining invoice amount can be paid directly via the open access publication fund.
Hogrefe (PsyJournals)
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
Hybrid Open Access: Free of charge in all SAGE Choice Journals
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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. The remaining amount may be financed by the Open Access Publication Fund.
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Taylor & Francis
Eligible are all Submitting Corresponding Authors of Leuphana.
Hybrid Open Access: Free of charge
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Gold Open Access: 15 % discount. The remaining amount may be financed by the Open Access Publication Fund.
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Eligible article types: Article, Research Article, Review, Review Article, Report, Brief Report, Note, Case Report, Essay, Discussion.
Consulting
If you have any questions about funding, the Open Access Team will be happy to assist you: openaccess@leuphana.de
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