Medizinische Hochschule Hannover : Publications discounts

AAAS Open Access Journal Science Advances

For publishing in this Gold OA journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) until the end of 2024, you will receive a 15% discount on the APC. It will be activated after selecting MHH as your affiliated institution.

This option is available through the MHH Library's participation in the GASCO consortium.

BMJ / British Medical Journals

With this publisher you can publish open access (Hybrid Open Access) in the licensed journals of the BMJ Standard Collection free of charge. If you search for our university here, all currently usable journal titles will be displayed. Please assign yourself directly to the MHH when submitting your manuscript. After "accepted", the publisher expects you to enter our institutional ring gold number (9177).

The journals The BMJ and BMJ Case Reports are not part of this agreement!

This option is made possible by the library's participation in the BMJ consortium (Publish&Read).

Cambridge Journals

As part of our Publish&Read Agreement, you (as a corresponding/submitting author) publish in most journals (hybrid and Gold OA) free of charge. A list of journals covered by this agreement and further information can be found here.

Frontiers

If you publish in the Gold Open Access journals of this publisher, you will receive a 10% discount on the publication costs if the costs appear on the central collective invoice to the university library.

When submitting your manuscript, please already select our university in the invoice section. If your university affiliation is confirmed to FRONTIERS by the MHH library, your publication costs will be assigned to the central collective invoice (after your agreement).

IOP Publishing (term 2022 – 2024)

As an MHH author, you can publish open access in all hybrid journals with no additional cost and in 16 Gold Open Access journals with IOP Publishing (duration 2022 - 2024) free of charge. Only costs that are incurred independently of open access (page charge, colour figures, etc.) are paid by you as an author.

The article must be a "primary research article" (this includes research papers, special issue articles, letters and review articles). Here is the list of appropriate journals (Lists A, B, and D ONLY): https://publishingsupport.iopscience.iop.org/questions/eligible-journals-transformative-agreements/.

Based on your affiliation statement, IOP Publishing will recognise you as eligible and contact you to advise you of the agreement described here. Submission assistance here: https://publishingsupport.iopscience.iop.org/questions/submit-under-a-transformative-agreement-guide/

MHH Library's participation in the German National Consortium's IOP Transformation Agreement (through TIB) provides these options. More information from IOP on this: https://publishingsupport.iopscience.iop.org/questions/open-access-germany-tib/

Karger

For the years 2024-2026, the MHH is participating in the consortial Publish&Read contract. This means that submitting MHH authors publish free of charge open access in these 57 subscription journals from Karger-Verlag:

Acta Cytologica

Acta Haematologica

American Journal of Nephrology

Annals of Nutrition and Metabolism

Audiology and Neurotology

Blood Purification

Brain, Behavior and Evolution

Breast Care

Cardiology

Caries Research

Cells Tissues Organs

Cerebrovascular Disaases

Chemotherapy

Complementary Medicine Research

Camplex Psychiatry

Cytogenetic and Genome Research

Dementia and Geriatrie Cognitive Disorders

Dermatology

Developmental Neuroscience - Subscribe20pen

Digestion

Digestive Disaases

Digestive Surgery

European Addiction Research

European Neurology

Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy

Folia Phoniatrica et Logopaedica

Gerontology

Gynecologic and Obstetric lnvestigation

Hormone Research in Paediatrics

Human Development

International Archives of Allergy and lmmunology

Journal of Vascular Research

Molecular Syndromology

Neonatology

Nephron

Neurodegenerative Diseases

Neuroendocrinology

Neuroepidemiology

Neuropsychobiology

Ocular Oncology and Pathology

Oncology

Oncology Research and Treatment

Ophthalmologica

ORL

Pathobiology

Pediatric Neurosurgery- Subscribe20pen

Pharmacology

Psychopathology

Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics

Respiration

Sexual Development

Skin Appendage Disorders

Skin Pharmacology and Physiology

Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery

Urologia lnternationalis

Verhaltenstherapie

Visceral Medicine

For the Gold OA journals, a centrally financed “flat rate” was agreed for all MHH authors:

Biomedicine Hub

Cardiorenal Medicine

Case Reports in Acute Medicine

Case Reports in Dermatology

Case Reports in Gastroenterology

Case Reports in Nephrology and Dialysis

Case Reports in Neurology

Case Reports in Oncology

Case Reports in Ophthalmology

Case Reports in Orthopedic Research

Cerebrovascular Disaases Extra

Dementia and Geriatrie Cognitive Disorders Extra

Digital Biomarkers

Dubai Diabetesand Endocrinology Journal

Dubai Medical Journal

European Surgical Research

Gastrointestinal Tumors

GE- Portuguese Journal of Gastroenterology

Glomerular Diseases

Human Heredity

Immune System - New

lnflammatory Intestinal Diseases

lntervirology

Journal of lnnate lmmunity

Kidney and Blood Pressure Research

Kidney Diseases

Lifestyle Genomics

Liver Cancer

Medical Cannabis and Cannabinoids

Medical Principles and Practice

Microbial Physiology

Neuroimmunemodulation

Obesity Facts

Ophthalmie Research

Pulse

Portuguese Journal of Public Health

Public Health Genomics

Saudi Journal of Health Systems Research

Transfusion Medicine and Hemotherapy

Article types considered are: Research Articles, Systematic Reviews, Case Reports, Meta Analyzes and Methods Articles. The 6 Karger Kompass magazines (Kompass Autoimmune, Kompass Dermatologie, Kompass Nutrition & Dietetics, Kompass Oncologie, Kompass Ophthalmologie, Kompass Pneumologie) are excluded from this regulation.

MDPI

For publications in MDPI-Journals, the library has agreed with the Open Access publisher on centralised billing for our authors.

When submitting the manuscript, please select our university in the Institutional Account Program workflow. During the submission process within the MHH campus, the publication is automatically assigned to the MHH with a 10% discount as long as you do not use vouchers for billing.

Nature

In the NATURE hybrid journals you can publish your manuscript in open access without paying the additional costs (based on the DEAL with Springer Nature).

Only fees for additional publication options are charged separately (exceeding page charges, colour fees etc.) and paid by you as the author.

Here the publisher provides you with information and a current title list of the journals.

The participation of the MHH library in the Nature Transformative Agreement for Germany makes this option possible.

PLoS

In 2023 and 2024 you can publish free of charge as a corresponding author of MHH in all journals of the Public Library of Science (PLOS).

Please observe the MHH affiliation and publication policy, therefore select Hannover Medical School from the drop-down menu and use your university email address with ...@mh-hannover.de. Please also include the Ringgold number of MHH.

Please select in the payment details: My institution pays all or part of the fee (In German: Meine Institution zahlt die gesamte oder einen Teil der Gebühr.). The library will take care of the blanket check and invoice processing for Open Access publishing and pay the total costs.

If you still receive the invoice personally after "accepted", there was an error in the submission process.

If so, please contact us or contact PLOS directly (institutionalbilling@plos.org oder partnerships@plos.org). Your invoice will then be assigned to the consortium contract.

The offer is made possible by the library's participation in a national consortium agreement.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States (PNAS)

The MHH's participation in the national PNAS consortium enables the following discounts for publications by MHH authors in PNAS:

delayed open access 2,595 USD (instead of: 2,750 USD)
immediate open access USD 4,995 (instead of USD 5,800)

All articles are freely available on the Internet via PubMedCentral after a six-month embargo.

PsyJournals (Hogrefe)

(Hybrid) Open Access publishing in the so-called "PsyJournals" (psychological journals) of Hogrefe-Verlag is free of charge until 2026.

For Open Access publishing in the new Gold Open Access Journals, you as an author will receive a 25% discount on the APC:

Here you will find all information and the current title list for this offer.

MHH's participation in the National Consortium for Open Access Transformation at PsyJournals (Hogrefe) for the years 2024-2026 makes these options possible.

Sage Journals

As an MHH author, you can publish at SAGE Open Access free of charge in many subscription journals with the "SAGE Choice" offer. The library centrally bears the costs for your hybrid Open Access publication for these article types: Original Research Papers, Review Papers, Brief Communication, Short Reports and Case Reports.

The publisher will automatically inform you whether you have this option for the selected journal, please look for the term "German Academic Institutions" (see also https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/open-access-agreements-at-sage/germany#German).

For publishing in (pure) Gold Open Access journals you will receive a 20% discount on the publication costs as an author of the Hannover Medical School.

These options are made possible by the MHH library's participation in the SAGE Publish&Read consortium.

Springer DEAL

The MHH's participation in the SpringerNature DEAL agreement means that submitting corresponding authors from the MHH can publish free of charge in open access in both hybrid and pure (gold) OA journals published by SpringerNature (including BioMed Central etc.). Excepted from this are extra services requested separately by the author (e.g. color charges), which will be invoiced separately. Furthermore, the agreement excludes research articles from the so-called specialist medical journals that were requested and actively edited as part of the editorial program planning. . Detailed information about the submission process and a list of available journals can be found directly on the MPDLS website. During the submission process, please make sure that you correctly assign yourself to the Hannover Medical School / Hannover Medical School.

Thieme Journals

As part of a transformation contract, you can publish free of charge in the following 4 hybrid OA journals until the end of 2025:

Wiley DEAL

The participation of the MHH in the Wiley DEAL agreement means that submitting corresponding authors of the MHH can publish free of charge in open access in both hybrid and pure (gold) OA journals from the Wiley publishing house (incl. Hindawi et.). Invoice processing and payment is carried out centrally via the library. Detailed information about the submission process and a list of available journals can be found directly on the MPDLS website. During the submission process, please make sure that you correctly assign yourself to the Hannover Medical School / Hannover Medical School.

Publication discounts / publishing agreements