Institutional memberships

Through its institutional memberships and other contractual agreements, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) receives discount on open access publication fees from the following publishers:

Publisher	Discount	Limitations
Bentham Science	50%	Applicable to all journals of the publisher (includes subscription journals).
BioMed Central / SpringerOpen	Since 1. 8. 2020: 20%	Applicable to fully Open Access journals covered by DEAL (exceptions: Scientific Reports, Nature Communications). See also Read and Publish agreements Springer Nature DEAL. PLEASE NOTE: Due to the recent switch to DEAL please avoid selecting the BMC membership option in the drop down menu on the BMC payment options page when you submit. Please select the option “I agree to pay” instead. Upon acceptance the fee will be covered by DEAL and, thereby, the FAU publications fund. Thus, it is subject to the requirements of the fund and you will receive an invoice from the library for either a 25% author’s contribution or the full amount in case the fee exceeds the maximum fundable amount of 2000 € (incl. VAT).
BMJ Open	20%	Discount applies only to open access journals of the publisher.
Cogitatio Press	100%	Discount applies to all open access journals of the publisher: Media and Communication Politics and Governance Social Inclusion Urban Planning
Karger	50%	Discount applies exclusively to open access journals of the publisher.
MDPI	Up until 31.10.2020: 25% From 1.11.2020: 10%	Discount applies only to open access journals of the publisher.
Sage	As from 01.01.2020: 20%	Discount applies exclusively to open access journals of the publisher (see title list, „Eligible for Gold discount“).
SCOAP³/publications in the field of high energy physics (HEP)	100%	100% discount for the following journals: European Physical Journal C Journal of High Energy Physics Nuclear Physics B Physics Letters B For the following more general journals, costs can only be covered for HEP content: Chinese Physics C Acta Physica Polonica B Advances in High Energy Physics Physical Review C Physical Review D Physical Review Letters Progress of Theoretical Physics (to become PTEP) Articles which are considered HEP content are those for which HEP is set as the main category in arXiv before they are submitted to the publisher: http://arxiv.org/archive/hep-ex http://arxiv.org/archive/hep-th http://arxiv.org/archive/hep-ph http://arxiv.org/archive/hep-lat
SPIE – The International Society for Optics and Photonics	100%	Applicable to fully Open Access journals and subscription journals.
Wiley	20%	Applicable to fully Open Access journals covered by DEAL. See also Read and Publish agreements Wiley DEAL

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