Special Conditions

Many publishers and journals offer special publishing conditions for members of Humboldt-Universität. In this case, too, publication fees may be covered by the publication fund for journal articles. Furthermore, additional personal discounts may be available, for example for members of academic societies or for authors who are invited to publish articles.

In addition to publication by the publishers or in the journals, all open access articles by members of Humboldt-Universität are also deposited and archived on the open access repository of Humboldt-Universität (edoc-Server).

The following special conditions are available to members of Humboldt-Universität, which are described in detail on the respective subpages.

Special conditions with publishers

The following is an overview of the special conditions with publishers. The subpages with the details of the individual conditions are available in German only as they are subject to frequent changes. If you wish to get more information on the details of the conditions in English, please contact us.
  • American Association for the Advancement of Science: 15 % discount on publication fees for open access articles in Science Advances
  • American Chemical Society (ACS): free-of-charge open access publishing in all journals
  • AIP Publishing (American Institute of Physics): free-of-charge open access publishing in all subscription journals which offer an open access option (for a limited number of articles per year)
  • Association for Computing Machinery: free-of-charge open access publishing in all journals
  • Cambridge University Press: free-of-charge open access publishing in all journals; secondary publication of a closed access article in the published version after 12 months
  • Cogitatio Press: free-of-charge open access publishing in all journals
  • Company of Biologists: free-of-charge open access publishing in all journals
  • Copernicus: central invoicing and coverage of costs if they are less than € 2,000
  • De Gruyter: 20 % discount on publication fees in genuine open access journals; free-of-charge open access publishing in more than 100 subscription journals in the humanities and social sciences; secondary publication of a closed access article in the published version without an embargo period
  • Elsevier/Cell Press: 15-20 % discount on publication fees in genuine open access journals; free-of-charge open access publishing in all subscription journals which offer an open access option
  • Hogrefe: 25 % discount on publication fees in genuine open access journals; free-of-charge open access publishing in all subscription journals which offer an open access option; secondary publication of a closed access article in the accepted version (postprint) after 12 months
  • IOP Publishing: free-of-charge open access publishing in almost all journals
  • John Benjamins: free-of-charge open access publishing in all journals
  • MDPI: 10 % discount on publication fees in all journals
  • Oxford University Press: free-of-charge open access publishing in all journals (for a limited number of articles per year)
  • PLOS: free-of-charge open access publishing in all journals
  • Rockefeller University Press: free-of-charge open access publishing in all subscription journals which offer an open access option
  • Royal Society: free-of-charge open access publishing in all journals from package B (biology)
  • Royal Society of Chemistry: free-of-charge open access publishing in all journals
  • Sage: 20 % discount on publication fees in genuine open access journals; free-of-charge open access publishing in all subscription journals which offer an open access option; secondary publication of a closed access article in the accepted version (postprint) without an embargo period and in the published version after 12 months
  • SciPost: free-of-charge open access publishing in all journals
  • Springer Nature: discounted publication fees in genuine open access journals; free-of-charge publishing in all subscription journals which offer an open access option
  • Taylor and Francis: 15 % discount on publication fees in genuine open access journals; free-of-charge open access publishing in all subscription journals which offer an open access option
  • Wiley: 20 % discount on publication fees in genuine open access journals; free-of-charge open access publishing in all subscription journals which offer an open access option

Special conditions for specific journals

The following is an overview of the special conditions for specific journals. The subpages with the details of the individual conditions are available in German only as they are subject to frequent changes. If you wish to get more information on the details of the conditions in English, please contact us.