Academic publisher Cambridge University Press has reached a major Open Access agreement with Germany’s Max Planck Society (MPG).
This builds on the ‘read and publish’ agreement coordinated by the Bavarian State Library (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, BSB) with financial support from the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft).
The three-year ‘read and publish’ agreement will advance on the traditional subscription model, uniting reading access and open access publishing under one, centrally-administered agreement.
Authors from any of the Max Planck Society’s institutes can now publish their research articles under an Open Access license in the Press’s hybrid and fully Open Access journals, with the relative publishing fees paid centrally by the Max Planck Digital Library. In addition, MPG members will have access to the Press’ full collection of nearly 400 journals across STM and HSS.
The MPG and BSB agreements in Germany follow similar agreements concluded between the Press and the Bibsam consortium of Swedish higher education and research institutions last November the UKB consortium of Dutch university libraries in May 2017.
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