Read and publish agreements
“Read and Publish“ refers to agreements between library consortia and publishers which also cover the Open Access publishing in subscription journals (hybrid journals). Specific information on all “Read and Publish” agreements, which FAU participates in, can be found below. For information on funding or discounts for articles in fully Open Access journals please check our funding options and institutional memberships.
As of 1 January 2021 FAU corresponding authors are able to publish Open Access free of charge and uncapped in the following journals of The Company of Biologists:
- Development
- Journal of Cell Science
- Journal of Experimental Biology
When submitting via the publisher’s author portal please select the Open Access option. In case of acceptance you will be asked to fill out a publication agreement and generate an invoice with the note “Seek funding from [Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg]”. We will confirm your affiliation and you will receive a 100% discount. Further details regarding the process can be found in the author’s guide:
https://www.biologists.com/read-publish/guide-for-authors/
The Company of Biologists Agreement 2024 – 2026: The agreement will be extended from 1 January 2024 until 31 December 2026. The following fully Open Access journals will be added:
- Disease Models & Mechanism
- Biology Open
All members of German university and non-university research institutions receive a discount of 20% on the article publication fees in about 40 journals of the publisher EDP Sciences (a precise listing of the journals can be found here) thanks to negotiation successes of the Technical Information Library (TIB) Hannover.
The hybrid journals of EDP Sciences cannot be co-funded by the Open Access Publications Fund, as the fund is intended for fully open access journals only.
“Read”-component:
For detailed information on journal lists, included imprints, and more, please see the Elsevier-contract and further contract information from the DEAL consortium.
„Publish“ component:
- Eligible article types can be found here: What kind of publications are covered?
- A list of eligible journals can be found here: Which journals are included? See column “Publishing Model” for whether a journal is “Hybrid” or “Fully Open Access”
Who can publish under DEAL?
- FAU authors (students and staff) with „Submitting Corresponding Author“ status. The corresponding author is used to match the article to the agreement. You have to consider this at submission stage! The submission has to be carried out by the corresponding author themselves and must not be delegated to other members of staff because if they were to leave FAU the article would no longer be covered by the DEAL agreement between FAU and Elsevier. Subsequent changes to corresponding author status cannot be taken into consideration.
What types of funding are available?
- Hybrid journals Elseveir DEAL
- The Open Access option in SpringerNature Hybrid journals is completey free of charge for authors affiliated with FAU or the university clinic.
- At the time of acceptance, you will receive an e-mail with a link to select the publication options. Please click “Complete the rights and Access form” and select FAU or the University Hospital Erlangen and your department etc., if available, under “Corresponding Author’s Organization”. At the end, select “Publish as an Open Access article” and your preferred CC license. The University Library recommends CC BY 4.0.
- Fully Open Access journals Elsevier DEAL
- The DEAL contract offers a 20% DEAL discount on Open Access fees for Elsevier journals and a 15% discount on Open Access fees for Cell Press and The Lancet journals. Unfortunately, previously agreed individual discounts/waivers will be overwritten by DEAL. If you are eligible for a society discount, please notify the Open Access team ahead of acceptance.
- No direct invoicing to authors – the library will receive a central quartly invoice and pass on fees in line with funding options (see below).
Funding options for DEAL articles in fully Open Access journals:
- Fundable articles: The university library can provide a subsidy of 1.400 € for articles, which do not exceed 3.000 € (incl. 7% VAT). If the total amount remains below 1.400 €, the library will cover the full amount. If the gross total is above 1.400 €, the corresponding authoir will receive an incoive from the library for any remaining amount. Please complete the appropriate submission form when prompted by an email from the Open Access team. If you do not complete the form we cannot assess your funding eligibility and you will be invoiced the full amount. You will not receive an invoice from the publisher so please tick this box instead of uploading an invoice:
- Non-fundable articles: The corresponding author will receive an invoice for 100% of the total APC (+VAT, -20% DEAL discount) from the library.
See “Wiley – Project DEAL”
On 1. Januar 2021 a Publish & Read agreement with Hogrefe came into effect.
This agreement enables FAU corresponding authors to publish Open Access in all hybrid journals of the publisher’s PsyJOURNALS portfolio at not extra cost. Please follow this link for a list of all eligible titles and article types:
(this page is in German only, please contact us if you need further information: ub-open-access@fau.de
Upon acceptance you will receive an Open Access release form from the publisher which you need to complete with your choice of an open license – we recommend that you select CC-by.
From 01/01/2022 until the end of 2025, FAU authors are entitled to publish an unlimited amount of articles as Open Access in the majority of IOP’s hybrid journals free of charge (check your journal’s eligibility here – from 2023 Reports on Progress in Physics will be part of the agreement. New additions to the list of fully Open Access journals (D) from 01/01/2024 are Environmental Research: Energy and Environmental Research: Food. The hybrid journal Applied Physics Express will be flipped to a fully Open Access journal on 01/01/2024. IOP SciNotes will be discontinued at the end of 2023). IOP will automatically identify articles that are potentially eligible (based on the institution of the corresponding author). On acceptance, IOP will ask the university library to validate the author’s affiliation in order to authorize funding via the agreement. You will not receive an invoice from IOP or the library for selecting the Open Access option in eligible journals.
However, a few select journals will raise page charges in addition to the free open access option, which will be invoiced directly to the author, namely Applied Physics Express and Japanese Journal of Applied Physics. Both journals charge up to an additional 480 GBP per article. If you reject the free Open Access option with Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, the journal will charge an alternative publication fee (113 USD per page and an extra 154 USD for additional information).
Further information can be found on the pages of the Technical Information Library (TIB) and IOP:
- IOP Publishing Support: https://publishingsupport.iopscience.iop.org/questions/open-access-germany-tib/
- List of eligible journals (included journals are listed in sections A, B and D): https://publishingsupport.iopscience.iop.org/questions/eligible-journals-transformative-agreements/
At the end of 2022, the hybrid journals Plasma Research Express and Multifunctional Materials ceased publication.
Eligible article types are: Research Paper, Special Issue and Review Article.
From 1 January 2024 FAU-affiliated corresponding authors will be eligible to publish their articles as Open Access free of charge and uncapped in all of the publisher’s journals.
All articles of the type “Research Article”, “Reviews” and “Introductory Articles”submitted during the duration of the agreement (1 January 2024 – 31 December 2024) are eligible.
From 01. 01. 2025 a new Nature Publish and Read Agreement permits FAU and UK corresponding authors to publish articles as Open Access at no extra cost in Nature and a number of Nature Research hybrid journals.
Visit springernature.com for more information, a list of eligible journals can be found here.
Only the article type “primary research article” is covered by the agreement.
Please note that the fully Open Access journals of the Nature portfolio are invoiced centrally via Springer Nature Project DEAL and there might be a cost contribution to yourselves. For cost information regarding specific journals please consult the Springer Nature DEAL list of eligible journals. Here you can finde Information on funding options for fully Open Access journals.
From 1 January 2024 FAU-affiliated corresponding authors will be eligible to publish their articles as Open Access free of charge and uncapped in the following three biomedical journals:
From 1 January 2024 until 31 December 2027: The new RSC Platinum Model enables FAU-affiliated corresponding authors to publish their articles as Open Access free of charge in the publisher’s hybrid and fully Open Access journals – eligible journal list.
The publisher uses institutional email addresses as identifier for eligibility. Therefore, we encourage you to use your institutional email address during submission.
For further steps in the author portal post-acceptance, please see the author workflow flyer.
Articles of the following types are eligible: Original Research Papers, Review Papers, Brief Communications, Short Reports, Case Reports.
Through the Sage Portal, eligible authors will be identified and contacted via email. Please confirm your Open Access choice via the link in this email – please note that there is an expiry date by which the process will have to be completed. After this date, your article might not be covered by the agreement.
Further information can be found here: https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-agreements-at-sage/germany
The consortial agreement remains in place in 2026. FAU members are able to publish an unlimited amount of articles as Open Access in SPIE journals at no extra cost.
This applies to all journals of the society, including fully Open Access journals.
Articles will be published under a CC BY license.
When submitting your paper via the SPIE portal please select the open access option “One or more authors belong to an institution that has an open access publishing agreement with SPIE” and choose FAU from the drop-down menu below. Here is a detailed submisison guide: SPIE Journal Submission Guide
“Read”-component:
For detailed information on journal lists, included imprints, and more, please see SpringerNature-contract https://deal-konsortium.de/en/agreements/springer-nature
“Publish”-component:
- Eligible article types can be found here: What kind of publications are covered?
- A list of eligible journals can be found here: Which journals are included? See column “Publishing Model” for whether a journal is “Hybrid” or “Fully Open Access”
- Please note that Nature-branded hybrid journals are not covered by this agreement – however, as of 01. 01. 2025 there is a separate agreement covering a number of Nature-branded hybrid journals. Nature-branded fully Open Access journals have limited DEAL coverage.
Who can publish under DEAL?
- FAU authors (students and staff) with corresponding author status
- The corresponding author has to be affiliated with FAU or the university clinic at least at acceptance stage, ideally also at submission stage. Delays due to longer peer reviews and authors moving between institutions can be taken into consideration in individual cases.
What types of funding are available?
- Hybrid journals SpringerNature DEAL
- The Open Access option in SpringerNature Hybrid journals is completey free of charge for authors affiliated with FAU or the university clinic.
- Please confirm your affiliation with FAU or the university clinic in the following ways:
- Select FAU in the Drop-down Menu in the author portal (preferred)
- Use your FAU-email address to submit
- Submit from within the university network
- Fully Open Access journals SpringerNature DEAL
- A DEAL discount of 20% will be automatically applied to all APCs for DEAL-eligible articles in fully Open Access journals. Individually arranged waivers of discounts are likely to be overwritten.
- No direct invoicing to authors – the library will receive a central quartly invoice and pass on fees in line with funding options (see below).
Funding options for SpringerNature DEAL Fully Open Access articles:
- Fundable articles: The university library can provide a subsidy of 1.400 € for articles, which do not exceed 3.000 € (incl. 7% VAT). If the total amount remains below 1.400 €, the library will cover the full amount. If the gross total is above 1.400 €, the corresponding authoir will receive an incoive from the library for any remaining amount. Please complete the appropriate submission form when prompted by an email from the Open Access team. If you do not complete the form we cannot assess your funding eligibility and you will be invoiced the full amount. You will not receive an invoice from the publisher so please tick this box instead of uploading an invoice:
- Non-fundable articles: The corresponding author will receive an invoice for 100% of the total APC (+VAT, -20% DEAL discount) from the library.
“Read”-component: For detailed information on journal lists, included imprints, and more, please see the Wiley contract summary and Wiley DEAL Operations pages.
“Publish”-component:
Which publications are subject to DEAL?
- Eligible article types can be found here: What kind of publications are covered?
- A list of eligible journals can be found here: Which journals are included? See column “Revenue Model” for whether a journal is hybrid (HOA) or fully Open Access (OA)
Who can publish under DEAL?
- FAU authors (students and staff) with status “Responsible Corresponding Author”
- The responsible corresponding author has to be affiliated with FAU or the university clinic at least at acceptance stage, ideally also at submission stage. Delays due to longer peer reviews and concurrent moves between institutions can be taken into consideration in individual cases.
What types of funding are available?
- Hybrid Journals Wiley DEAL
- The Open Access option in Wiley Hybrid journals is completey free of charge for authors affiliated with FAU or the university clinic.
- During the submission process, please choose the FAU or the university clinic as your affiliation from the drop-down menu.
- Fully Open Access Journals Wiley DEAL
- A DEAL discount of 20% will be automatically applied to all APCs for DEAL-eligible articles in fully Open Access journals. Individually arranged waivers of discounts are likely to be overwritten.
- No direct invoicing to authors – the library will receive a central quartly invoice and pass on fees in line with funding options (see below).
- During the submission process, please select the following option under “Who will pay?”: “my institution or funder has an agreement with Wiley and may pay the Article Processing Charge” – please enter the Open Access account code “D634” for FAU or “D679” for the university clinic.
Funding options for Wiley DEAL Fully Open Access articles:
- Fundable articles: The university library can provide a subsidy of 1.400 € for articles, which do not exceed 3.000 € (incl. 7% VAT). If the total amount remains below 1.400 €, the library will cover the full amount. If the gross total is above 1.400 €, the corresponding authoir will receive an incoive from the library for any remaining amount. Please complete the appropriate submission form when prompted by an email from the Open Access team. If you do not complete the form we cannot assess your funding eligibility and you will be invoiced the full amount. You will not receive an invoice from the publisher so please tick this box instead of uploading an invoice:
- Non-fundable articles: The corresponding author will receive an invoice for 100% of the total APC (+VAT, -20% DEAL discount) from the library.
Please consult Wiley’s author guide for further information.