OA agreements in Germany

Open access policies

We are pleased to partner with the following consortia to grow Open Access publishing across Germany.

If your institution has a Read and Publish agreement, you may publish your article gold OA at no cost to you. You can also enjoy access to journals content from Cambridge University Press.

German institutions covered by these agreement are listed below. To easily check your eligibility, as well as which journals you can publish in, click here to use our eligibility checker tool.

Click here to find out more about our other deals across the globe.

We are pleased to partner with the following institutions to grow Open Access publishing across Germany:

Nestec/Nestlé

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Bayerische Staatsbibliothek (BSB)

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Baden State Library
Bavarian State Library
Berlin State Library
Brandenburg University of Technology
Braunschweig University of Technology
Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg
Chemnitz University of Technology
Cologne University
Deutsche Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY
Deutscher Bundestag
Federal Institute for Risk Assessment
Freie Universität Berlin
Fulda University of Applied Sciences
German Aerospace Center
German Center for Integration and Migration Research (DeZIM)
German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases
German Development Institute
German Institute for International and Security Affairs
German Forum for Art History Paris (Max Weber Stiftung)
German Historical Institute (Max Weber Stiftung)
German Historical Institute in Rome (Max Weber Stiftung)
German Historical Institute London (Max Weber Stiftung)
German Historical Institute Moscow (Max Weber Stiftung)
German Historical Institute Paris (Max Weber Stiftung)
German Historical Institute Warsaw (Max Weber Stiftung)
German Institute for Japanese Studies Tokyo (Max Weber Stiftung)
German Institute of Human Nutrition
Goethe University Frankfurt
GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies
Hamburg Institute for Social Research
Hannover Medical School
Hanover University of Music Drama and Media
Heidelberg University
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf
Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon
Helmut Schmidt University
Hertie School of Governance
Humboldt University of Berlin
Institut für Arbeitsmarkt und Berufsforschung
Jade Hochschule
Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Kiel Institute of Technology
Kiel University
Leibniz Institute for Farm Animal Biology (FBN)
Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies
Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography
Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research
Leibniz Institute for the German Language (IDS)
Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences
Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research
Leipzig University
Leuphana University
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Mathematical Research Institute of Oberwolfach
Max Planck Foundation for International Peace and Rule of Law
Max Weber Forum for South Asian Studies in Delhi (Max Weber Stiftung)
Max Weber Foundation International Humanities (Max Weber Stiftung)
Max Rubner Institut
Max Weber Foundation
Osnabrück University
Orient-Institute Beirut (Max Weber Stiftung)
Orient-Institute Istanbul (Max Weber Stiftung)
Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg
Peace Research Institute Frankfurt
Philipp University of Marburg
Robert Koch Institute
Ruhr University Bochum
RWI - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research
Saxon State and University Library Dresden
Social Science Research Center Berlin
State Library of Württemberg
Technical University of Bergakademie Freiberg
Technical University of Munich
Thuringer Universitats und Landesbibliothek
TU Dortmund University
University of Applied Sciences, Bochum
University of Augsburg
University of Bamberg
University of Bayreuth
University of Bonn
University of Bremen
University of Duisburg-Essen
University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
University of Freiburg
University of Giessen
University of Göttingen
University of Greifswald
University of Hagen
University of Hamburg
University of Hannover
University of Hildesheim
University of Hohenheim
University of Kassel
University of Konstanz
University of Lübeck
University of Mannheim
University of Münster
University of Paderborn
University of Passau
University of Potsdam
University of Regensburg
University of Rostock
University of Siegen
University of Stuttgart
University of the Federal Armed Forces, Munich
University of Trier
University of Tübingen
University of Ulm
University of Vechta
University of Veterinary Medicine Hanover
University of Wuppertal
University of Würzburg
Wissenschaftspark Albert Einstein
ZB Med- German National Library of Medicine
Zeppelin University

Max-Planck-Gesellschaft (MPG)

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Art History Institute in Florence - Max-Planck-Institute
Bibliotheca Hertziana - Max Planck Institute for Art History
Friedrich Miescher Laboratory of the Max Planck Society
Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society
Max Planck Institute for Astronomy
Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics
Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics
Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry (Karl Friedrich Bonhoeffer Institute)
Max Planck Institute for Brain Research
Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology
Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion
Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids
Max Planck Institute for Chemistry (Otto Hahn Institute)
Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law
Max Planck Institute for Cyber Security and Privacy
Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology
Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization
Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems
Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics
Max Planck Institute for European Legal History
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology
Max Planck Institute for Experimental Medicine
Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics
Max Planck Institute for Foreign Private and Private International Law
Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute)
Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research (W. G. Kerckhoff Institute)
Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
Max Planck Institute for Human Development
Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology
Max Planck Institute for Informatics (Computer Science)
Max Planck Institute for Innovation
Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems
Max Planck Institute for Iron Research
Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology
Max Planck Institute for Mathematics
Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences
Max Planck Institute for Medical Research
Max Planck Institute for Metabolism Research
Max Planck Institute for Meteorology
Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics
Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics
Max Planck Institute for Ornithology
Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research
Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
Max Planck Institute for Radio
Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods
Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy
Max Planck Institute for Software Systems
Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research
Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research
Max Planck Institute for Tax Law
Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology
Max Planck Institute for the Biology of Ageing
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems
Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light
Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter
Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law
Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity
Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies
Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry
Max Planck Institute of Biophysics
Max Planck Institute of Coal Research
Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces
Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics
Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics
Max Planck Institute of Molecular Biomedicine
Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics
Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology
Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology
Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology
Max Planck Institute of Physics (Werner Heisenberg Institute)
Max Planck Institute of Plasma Physics
Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry (German Research Institute for Psychiatry)
Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics
Max Planck Research Center for the Science of Pathogens
Max Planck Society
Max-Planck-Digital-Library