Science Advances

For publishing in this Gold OA journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) until the end of 2023, 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.

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).

As a first author affiliated with the MHH, you can publish in many journals at CUP open access without additional costs. These are paid centrally by the library as part of the DFG-funded open access transformation contract "Cambridge Journals Online". Please choose the CC-BY licence if possible.

Here you will find the journal titles currently available for this offer after entering the country and our university.

The above option comes about through the participation of the MHH library in the read-and-publish agreement of the DFG consortium.

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).

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/

For publishing in (pure) Gold Open Access journals, you receive a 15% discount on the publication costs as an author of the Hannover Medical School.

Publishing (hybrid) open access in these journals is free of charge. The following article types belong to the contract: research, review, case-report, meta analysis and methods article.

MHH's participation in the national Karger Consortium (Transformative Publish&Read) makes these options possible.

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.

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.

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.

For (hybrid) immediate Open Access publishing in this journal  you receive a USD 500.00 discount on the publication fee and thus pay USD 4,975.00 (instead of USD 5,475.00).

The standard publication cost is USD 2,575 (with restricted access).

The participation of the MHH library in the national PNAS consortium makes this option possible for MHH authors.

(Hybrid) Open Access publishing in the so-called "PsyJournals" (psychological journals) of Hogrefe-Verlag is free of charge until 2023.

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

- European Journal of Psychology Open

- Psychological Test Adaption and Development (PTAD)

- Sports Psychiatry – Journal of Sports and Exercise Psychiatry

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 2021-2023 makes these options possible.

(Hybrid) Open Access publishing in the so-called "PsyJournals" (psychological journals) of Hogrefe-Verlag is free of charge until 2023.

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

- European Journal of Psychology Open

- Psychological Test Adaption and Development (PTAD)

- Sports Psychiatry – Journal of Sports and Exercise Psychiatry

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 2021-2023 makes these options possible.

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.

As part of the DEAL with Springer Nature, the library will centrally pay the costs for your (hybrid) Open Access publication in a journal with the Open Choice option in 2023. Only costs for exceeding pages, colour figures etc. are paid by you (or your department) as submitting and corresponding author. - Exception: in the approx. 70 specialist medical journals (see title list below), open access can only be published without self-payment by the author if the articles have not been requested and editorially supervised and correspond to the type Research Article.

In the Gold Open Access journals you do not pay APC to the publisher Springer Nature (incl. BioMed Central) until the end of 2023. Here, too, the library pays the costs centrally as part of the SPRINGER DEAL, depending on the "online publication date".

Please choose the CC-BY licence.  Information from Springer Nature

1)

As an MHH author, you can publish free of charge in the Gold Open Access journal Hormone and Metabolic Research (online publication date until the end of 2023), submission here. Please choose the CC-BY licence.

MHH's participation in the DFG-funded consortial transformation agreement offers "corresponding authors" of MHH this opportunity.

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Another consortial transformation contract offers you free Open Access publishing in these four journals (online publication date until the end of 2025):

1. Methods of Information Medicine
2. International Journal of Sports Medicine
3. Pharmacopsychiatry
4. Thrombosis and Haemostasis

Please select the CC-BY licence. The offer applies to "corresponding authors" of the MHH.

As part of the DEAL with Wiley, the library will centrally pay the costs for your (hybrid) Open Access publication in a journal with the Online Open option in 2023. Only costs for exceeding pages, colour figures etc. will be paid by you (or your department) as submitting corresponding author. 

In the Gold Open Access journals (inclusive of Hindawi titles), you do not pay APC to the publisher Wiley until the end of 2023. Here, too, the library pays the costs centrally as part of the Wiley DEAL. The "Acceptance Date" is decisive.

Please choose the CC-BY licence. Information from Wiley

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