The University Library has negotiated memberships and publishing agreements for the RUB that contain Open Access clauses.
Please always indicate your affiliation with the RUB directly in the submission process and, if possible, submit your funding application to the library prior to submission with the publisher so that we can safely verify the RUB affiliation in cooperation with the publisher.
You can find agreements for monographs here.
The following agreements and memberships for journals are currently in place:
Open Access publications in proceedings and journals of the ACM are, with a few exceptions, free of charge for RUB members.
https://libraries.acm.org/subscriptions-access/publications-eligible-for-oa
In 2023, OA publication costs in all of the publisher's journals are covered by a new Publish & Read contract.
Membership ended on 31.7.2020 - the publishing agreement was transferred to Springer Deal as of 1.8.2020.
OA publication costs in subscription journals of the Standard Collection (26 titles) are covered. RUB members receive a 15% discount on article fees in pure Open Access journals, as invoicing is done centrally.
OA publication costs in subscription and gold OA journals are free of charge for RUB authors. The costs for this transformation contract 2022-2024 are raised cooperatively at the RUB.
www.cambridge.org/core/services/open-access-policies/waivers-discounts
OA publication costs in the 3 journals "Development", "Journal of Cell Science", "Journal of Experimental Biology" are covered by the RUB contract.
Agreement on central invoicing. Upper limit of maximum € 2000 gross. The University Library has made advance payments. Corresponding Authors of the RUB reimburse the University Library for the article costs.
The agreement from 2023 includes only 10% discount on article fees and centralized billing.
New from 2022: In 111 hybrid journals in the humanities and social sciences, OA publishing is initially possible for RUB authors in the pilot year 2022 at no additional cost. The articles must be approved by the UB in the de Gruyter dashboard. The transformation contract also allows for a 20% discount on article fees in Gold open access journals.
The contract from 2021 onwards allows RUB members immediate open access publication in all transformative PsyJournals journals at no additional cost. In 2022-2023 there is a 25% discount on APCs in 3 Gold OA journals: European Journal of Psychology Open; Psychological Test Adaptation and Development; Sports Psychiatry - Journal of Sports and Exercise Psychiatry.
As part of the national consortium IOP Journals, RUB members can publish open access in 56 hybrid and 18 gold OA journals without limits. The contract is cooperatively funded; there are no additional costs for authors. AAS and ECS Publications are excluded.
https://publishingsupport.iopscience.iop.org/questions/open-access-germany-tib/
Agreement on central invoicing. General 15% discount for RUB members from 2023.
In 2023, OA publication costs in all the publisher's journals are covered by a new Publish & Read contract.
There are no article fees for open access articles in Nature subscription journals - these are covered by the new Publish & Read contract 2021/2024, cooperatively funded by the University Library and several faculties.
Per the membership agreement, all article fees are covered by the membership fee.
Agreement on central invoicing
RUB members receive a discount for opting for immediate publication as open access. All articles in PNAS are freely accessible via PubMed Central after 6 months.
The consortium agreement allows RUB members a 15% discount when selecting RUB as affiliation in the billing process. For further information check: Author's Workflow.
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Last update: Mar 27, 2023
