DEAL-Publish-and-Read-Agreement with Elsevier

Details on the DEAL Open Access Consortium Elsevier (1.9.2023-31.12.2028) 

Publishing component

"Submitting Corresponding Authors" can publish Open Access in these journals. ZAS will be charged with costs that are to be determined using this Elsevier article fee price list (xlsx file), in which the net prices are specified. These apply to articles accepted from 01.01.2024.

Publications in Elsevier Fully Gold Open Access journals are charged at the list price less 20% discount.

It is recommended to choose the CC-BY license for journal articles, as it allows maximum distribution and freedom of use as well as the best possible combinability with other CC-licensed works. With CC-BY, the copyright remains with the author.

The CC-BY-NC-ND license, which most strongly restricts subsequent use in the sense of open access, should rather be avoided. With this license, the rights are transferred to Elsevier. The license can be subsequently adjusted until January 15 of the following year (Elsevier Copyright Policies).

Author Workflow

To the  Elsevier Journal Finder

The costs for open access publishing in Elsevier's core hybrid journals and for reading access to core hybrid journals including the CPTL journals are covered by a fee, the Publish-and-Read fee (PAR fee), which the MPDLS charges to the participating institutions. For 2024, this is expected to be € 2,500 net. The VAT is split, with approx. 60-70% for reading (7%) and approx. 30-40% for publishing (19%).

MPDLS gGmbH charges a service fee of €100 for each publication in hybrid and full OA journals. The costs for the service fees will be sent with a separate invoice.

It is not possible to split the invoice between different institutions. The invoice will only be sent to the institution of the Submitting Corresponding Author.

Reading Component

Reading access to almost the entire Elsevier journal portfolio, including titles from Cell Press and The Lancet (see Journal List). Access to journal content published during the term of the agreement remains permanently available to the participating institution (perpetual access). By retroactively participating in 2023, the ZAS has perpetual reading rights for the 2023 volume.

This Journal List.xlsx lists the journals for which reading rights exist.

Access via the Publisher's Online Platform.

DEAL-Publish-and-Read-Agreement with Springer

Details on the DEAL Open Access Consortium Springer Nature (2024-2028)

The contract covers both the publisher's hybrid journals and the genuine open access journals.

Springer-Verlag website with lists of open access journals (hybrid and fully open access).

Publishing component

Details on the Open Access Process (Author Workflow)

Hybrid Journals with "Open Choice" option
For each hybrid OA article, the regular fee (Publish-and-Read Fee = PAR Fee) is € 2,600 net plus € 100 service fee for the MPDLS, which corresponds to approx. € 3,200 gross.

These costs for the ZAS are incurred if ZAS scientists submit the paper as the responsible Submitting Corresponding Author. The institutional affiliation must be clearly stated upon submission. The ZAS must be indicated as the 1st affiliation if there are several institutional affiliations. If possible, the ZAS e-mail address should be used and the paper should be submitted from the ZAS IP network.

Fully Open Access Journals
Publications in Springer Nature's pure Open Access journals (Gold/Fully OA) will be charged at the list price charge (APC) less a 20% discount. The service fee of €100 for the MPDLS and VAT must be added for each article. Higher prices apply for the Fully Open Access Journals of the Nature brand (e.g. Nature Communications).

Reading rights

Participating institutions receive access to almost the entire journal content on the Springer Nature platform according to the journal title list.

Perpetual reading rights (perpetual access): For content published in the years of their participation, participating institutions receive perpetual access, i.e. they can access this content even if they do not have a contract with the provider.

Financing model / invoicing

In the first three years of the contract, upper and lower limits apply to the publication costs calculated according to the PAR fee that an institution incurs for publications in Springer Nature hybrid journals. These limits determine the minimum or maximum share of the Springer Nature participation costs (= PAR reference amount 2023) that an institution must bear if its publication-related costs according to the PAR fee fall below or exceed these limits.

2024: Institutions generally pay Paper Charge, but at least 75% and at most 150% of the PAR reference amount 2023. The PAR reference amount 2023 corresponds to 112.5% of the 2016 subscription costs.

Participating institutions make an advance payment on their expected participation costs (according to the PAR fee within the upper and lower price limits).

For all eligible institutions, publication costs in hybrid journals will be reduced by the amount of a PAR fee.

Relevant dates for the invoicing of hybrid articles:
PAR pricing: Approval Date
Origin of the payment obligation: Approval Date
Settlement: after Online Publication Date

Relevant dates for the invoicing of Gold article:
APC pricing: Acceptance Date
Origin of the payment obligation: Approval Date
Billing: after Online Publication Date
 

DEAL-Publish-and-Read-Agreement with Wiley

Details on the DEAL Open Access Consortium Wiley (2024-2028)

The agreement covers both the publisher's hybrid journals and the genuine open access journals.
Wiley's page with lists of open access journals (hybrid and fully open access).

Publication rights

Hybrid articles
Open Access can be published in over 1,300 Wiley hybrid journals. Authorized authors must be Responsible Corresponding Author.

Gold articles
For papers in the more than 600 pure (Gold/Fully Gold) Open Access Wiley journals, a discount of 20% on the list prices is granted. See also Wiley's Journal Finder with filter on Fully Open Access.

Institutional affiliation with ZAS must be clearly stated upon submission:
- ZAS must be the primary affiliation
- The ZAS e-mail address should be used
- If possible, make the submission in the IP area of the ZAS

The Wiley Open Access Workflow can be found here:

-             How to publish in a fully open access journal (PDF)
-             How to publish in a hybrid open access journal (PDF)

The CC-BY license is recommended as an open access license. CC-BY is the freest license type, which allows the greatest possible reuse of a work and ensures that the author is named as the creator of the original.

For publications in hybrid journals, the acceptance date and for publications in Gold OA journals, the submission date is the relevant date for determining the publication fees and billing the article under the DEAL contract.

Reading rights
Reading access to almost the entire journal content on the Wiley Online Library platform according to the journal title list. Institutions receive permanent reading rights for all years in which they have fully participated in the contract, i.e. they can access this content even if they do not have a contract with Wiley.

Financing model / invoicing

The participation fees according to PAR Fee (Publish-and-Read-Fee) are paid annually in advance by means of an advance payment. The annual advance payment is calculated on the basis of the number of reference articles specified in the participation documents. Invoices will be issued in such a way that payment is possible either in the previous year or in the contract year. For the first contract year, the installment payments are expected to be invoiced in the first quarter of 2024. A final invoice for the actual hybrid publication costs (taking into account all discounts and any applicable lower and upper price limits for the year) will be issued after each completed publication year.

Article Processing Charges (APCs) for Wiley's pure (Gold) Open Access journals, if incurred, are expected to be invoiced after each quarter. The service fee is invoiced separately for each contract year (in May at the earliest).

In the first two years of the contract, there are upper and lower limits for the publication costs calculated on the basis of the PAR fee that an institution incurs for publications in Wiley hybrid journals. Minimum and maximum participation costs have been set as a proportion of the institution's total costs in 2023. Institutions generally pay a paper charge, but at least 60% and no more than 150% of the PAR reference amount in 2023. The financial participation model will be converted to a full paper-charge model within two years.

Please note that Wiley will charge page charges for each additional page if more than 6 pages are published.

Participating institutions will be asked for an advance payment on their expected participation costs (after PAR fee and within the upper and lower price limits).

For the new Wiley contract from 2024, journals will be divided into three different tiers/categories, each with different PAR fees:

Tier                PAR Fee
I                     3.150 €
II                    2,700 €
III                   2,200 € (e.g. "Syntax")

In addition, it is planned to retroactively reduce the amount of the PAR fee for all eligible participating institutions after the end of a publication year if corresponding funds are available.

For each publication in hybrid and full OA journals assigned to a participating institution, MPDLS gGmbH charges a service fee of €100 (plus 19%).

Wiley deposits the version of records of the published OA articles with DeepGReen. The digital long-term archiving, which is operated as a dark archive of the TIB, remains in force.