To promote Open Access, the University of Erfurt also takes part in so-called transformation contracts. Within the framework of these license agreements with publishers, you as a member of the University of Erfurt have the opportunity to publish open access in journals of the respective license packages. Depending on the terms of the specific contract your publication is either free of charge or a discounted article processing charge applies.
Within the "publish&read" concept the publisher grants the University of Erfurt read access to the content of the license package (read). In addition, members of the University of Erfurt can publish their scientific research results in journals of the publisher's portfolio (publish).
In transformation agreements, the publication fees for publications in electronic journals in question are usually part of the license fees, which are paid by the library. In some agreements, they are invoiced separately to the university as licensee. Therefore, the authors do not receive invoices for their article processing fees.
Ultimately, the authors decide whether they want to publish their publication open access and retain the exploitation rights, or whether their publication will appear behind a paywall and the exploitation rights will be transferred to the publisher.
As corresponding author please take care to select the University of Erfurt as the paying submission during the submission process and note that your publication is related to your main position at the University of Erfurt.
We encourage you to take advantage of these open access agreements.
Open access is an essential component of the DEAL agreements with the publishers Springer Nature and Wiley, among others. The aim is to make publicly funded research freely accessible worldwide in this way and to support scientific research in an equally sustainable way.
General information for authors within the DEAL consortium can be found on the DEAL website For Authors and on DEAL campaign flyer “OPEN ACCESS MEANS CC BY”.
Learn more details about the DEAL publishing agreements:
Contract term: since 01.01.2020
Contract model: publish&read agreement
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Please note that Nature branded subscription journals are excluded from DEAL agreements. Publications in Springer Nature specialist journals will only be published Open Access under DEAL if they are a) not submitted by invitation ("Call for papers") or b) of Research article type.
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Licensing: CC-BY
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Please note that additional publication charges, e.g. for colour illustrations or page charges (for overlength), and non-research articles in Fully Open Access journals are not covered by the DEAL agreements.
Further information:
Contract term: since 01.01.2024
Contract model: publish&read agreement
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Licensing: CC-BY and other CC-licences
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Author workflow in hybrid open access journals How to order hybrid open access
Author workflow in fully open access journals
The University of Erfurt has concluded transformation agreements with additional publishers. For open access publications from the following publishers, the publication fee (Article Processing Charge, APC) is included in the license fee or invoiced separately to the university as licensee.
Contract term: since 01.07.2024
Contract model: publish&read agreement
Publication venue: in gold and hybrid open access journals of the portfolio
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Conditions for authors:
Authors Identification:
Licensing: depending on the journals, selection from various open content licences
Publication costs: included in the licence agreement
Please note that fees are only charged for colour illustrations if these are requested by the authors for the print version. No page charges are levied for Open Access publications.
Further information:
Contract term: 2025
Contract model: publish&read agreement; the portfolio is divided into bundle A (104 journals in the publish&read model) and bundle B (journals in the read-only model)
Publication location: Journals in volume A
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Licence granted: CC-BY
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De Gruyter Open Access Agreement
De Gruyter hybrid open access journals and Electronic Journals Library Konvolut A
Electronic Journals Library Konvolut B
Contract term: since 01.01.2021
Contract model: publish&read agreement
Publication venue: in Hybrid Open Access journals (Hogrefe OpenMind)
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Conditions for authors:
Licence: CC-BY 4.0, CC-BY-NC 4.0, CC-BY-ND 4.0 or CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0
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Further information:
Author workflow and title list
Contract term: since 01.01.2021
Contract model: publish&read agreement
Publication venue: in hybrid open access journals (SAGE Choice Journal) and Gold Open Access journals (Pure Gold Open Access Journals)
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Licensing: Selection from various open content licenses depending on the journals.
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Contract term: since 2024
Contract model: Journals Open Access Transformative Agreement with publish&read component
Publication venue: in Hybrid Open Access journals (Open Select Journals) and Gold Open Access journals (Open Journals)
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