Frontiers

Term of contract GFZ: since 2018

Since 2018, the GFZ has been a member of the Open Access agreement between the Helmholtz Association and the Open Access publisher Frontiers.

Elements of the agreement

The content of this agreement is that the Article Processing Charges (APC) for "corresponding authors" who wish to publish in any Frontiers journal are pre-financed centrally via the library as a deposit. The costs are then passed on internally to the author or section. Support by OA funds is possible (for details see below).

In addition, GFZ authors receive a 15% discount on the APC.

Which requirements must be fulfilled?

You are a researcher from the GFZ and you submit your paper as responsible Submitting Corresponding Author.

What you need to consider?

Clearly state your affiliation in the article submission process. And please use the e-mail address of your institution (GFZ) for submitting.

Please note that any additional costs incurred (e.g. for overlength or color illustrations) are excluded from the DEAL contract and will be invoiced individually to the authors or the section.

Open Access license

The Creative Commons license CC BY is set by default for the contract.

We also recommend the liberal license type CC BY, which grants the most ideal reuse possibilities in science without restricting your copyright in the work.

This is the procedure

When submitting the manuscript, please select "GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences" as "institutional payer" in the billing section.

Please always use your institution's e-mail address for communication with the publisher and when submitting the manuscript.

If you have an ORCID ID, please include it.

Invoicing and cost coverage

In general, publication fees for articles in Frontiers journals are pre-funded centrally for GFZ staff via the library as a deposit and then passed on to the author or his/her section.

At GFZ, APCs are allocated to the respective cost centres of the sections or third-party funded projects.

When an article is published, the library contacts the corresponding author or his/her secretariat and asks to be informed of the cost centre for further accounting.

Publications in Open Access journals, which can only be funded from the section budget, can be supported from the Open Access budget. The remainder must be covered by section funds.
Information on publication costs and the OA budget at the GFZ can be found on the intranet: http://intranet.gfz-potsdam.de/themes/publications/publication-costs/

The library’s Open Access Team will be happy to answer any questions you may have.