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Open Access Publishing with Elsevier, Cell Press and The Lancet

Philipps-Universität Marburg (UMR) participates in the DEAL agreement with Elsevier and the brands Cell Press and The Lancet, including around 1,800 hybrid journals and 700 fully Open Access journals.

Publishing in a hybrid journal (otherwise closed access)

A hybrid journal publishes single articles in open access usually after paying an optional fee. The DEAL contract enables to publish manuscripts open access without paying such a fee. Under the terms of the agreement, submitting corresponding authors of Philipps-Universität Marburg can publish their articles in Elsevier's journals (including Cell Press and The Lancet) with immediate open access at no additional cost to the author. During the publication you will get an information about the per-article fee charged ("DEAL Agreement Fee"), however, this fee is covered by the University ("DEAL Agreement Coverage").

Publishing in fully gold open access journals

In a gold open access journal all articles are published freely available without an embargo, but an article processing charge (APC) has to be paid. Under the terms of the DEAL agreement, submitting corresponding authors of Philipps-Universität Marburg will receive the following discounts on the list prices for their researchers' publications in fully open access Elsevier journals: 

  • 20% discount on the list prices of the APCs of the Elsevier fully gold open access journals and 
  • 15% discount on the list prices of the APCs of the Cell Press and The Lancet fully gold open access journals.

The APC may be funded partially or fully by the Open Access Publishing Fund up to 2,000 EUR incl. taxes. Available third-party funding for publishing has to be used with priority. If the article is eligible for funding and the APC exceeds 2,000 EUR the applicant has to cover the rest and has to provide a cost center.

To facilitate the discount under the DEAL-agreement, there is a collective invoice administed at the university library. The accounting entry with the cost splitting between fund and cost center of the author will be processed on a quarterly basis.

Article types covered

Article types included in the agreement include: Full Length Articles, Review Articles, Case Reports, Data in Brief, Microarticle, Original Software Publication, Protocol, Replication Study, Short Communication, Short Survey und Video Article.

Licence 

We recommend to select the CC BY 4.0 licence for your article in the submitting process ("Select your user license").

Regulations for 2023

The agreement commenced as of 1 September 2023. Already published articles under the subscription model, may be changed to open access as part of the DEAL-Elsevier open access agreement. The autors will be contacted, individually.

Further information

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