Elements of the agreement
Eligibility for authors of participating institutions for Open Access publishing in more than 2.500 subscription-based Elsevier journals, including Cell Press and The Lancet journals.
Reading access for nearly the entire Elsevier journal portfolio including Cell Press and The Lancet journals.
A 20% discount on the list price of Article Processing Charges (APCs) for Elsevier Gold Open Access journals and a 15% discount on the list price of Gold Open Access Cell Press and The Lancet journals.
Which requirements must be fulfilled?
You are a researcher from a participating institution and you submit your paper as responsible Submitting Corresponding Author.
Your article is one of the following article types: Full Length Articles, Review Articles, Case Reports, Data in Brief, Microarticle, Original Software Publication, Protocol, Replication Study, Short Communication, Short Survey, Video Article.
What you need to consider?
Clearly state your affiliation in the article submission process. And please use the e-mail address of your institution 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
Details on the submission process can be found here.
Invoicing and cost coverage
The library receives and pays collective invoices for the publication costs (both for APCs and Publish-and-Read-Fees). There should be no individual invoicing to authors (Exception: additional costs for overlength, color illustrations etc.).
The internal regulations on cost assumption in the different institutes is described below.
The library’s Open Access Team will be happy to answer any questions you may have.
At GFZ the publication costs incurred (Publish & Read-Fee) for Open Access publication in a subscription-based journal are paid centrally by the library.
In consultation with the sections, the costs for genuine Open Access publications (APCs) are transferred to the respective Account Assignment Elements of the section budgets or third-party funded projects.
Publications in genuine Open Access journals that can only be financed from section budget funds can be supported from the OA budget. The remaining amount must be financed from section funds. See GFZ intranet: intranet.gfz-potsdam.de/en/for-researchers/publishing/publication-costs
The publication costs incurred, both for Gold Open Access publications (APCs) and Open access publications in subscritpion-based journals (Publish-and-Read-Fees), are allocated to the research departments. Wherever possible, third-party funds should be given preference.
Publications in genuine Open Access journals that can only be financed from section budget funds can be supported from the OA budget (see PIK intranet: www.pik-potsdam.de/en/output/publications/open-access-budget).
The payment of the article processing charge (APC) for Gold Open Access publications at the RIFS is covered by the respective cost centre of the project or the third-party funded projects (in each case in consultation with the research group leaders).
Contact
Open Access Team of the Library
Tel.: +49 331 6264-1673
E-Mail: openaccess@gfz-potsdam.de
AWI
Tel.: +49 331 58174-5028
E-Mail: oa@awi.de
RIFS
Tel.: +49 331 6264-22331
E-Mail: library@rifs-potsdam.de
PIK
Tel.: +49 331 6264-27606
E-Mail: publications@pik-potsdam.de
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More about Creative Commens licenses
Pascal Braak et al. (2020). Guide to Creative Commons for Scholarly Publications and Educational Resources. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4090923