Frontiers and the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres (Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft Deutscher Forschungszentren) have established an agreement entailing the inclusion of three new members of the Helmholtz Association in an agreement on open access publishing.
Building on an agreement established in 2015 comprising a consortium of then nine member institutions of the Helmholtz Association, Frontiers and the Helmholtz Association have now agreed on the expansion of this consortium to include three further member institutions. The new members are: The German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V., DLR), The Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel (GEOMAR), and The Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (Alfred-Wegener-Institut, Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung, AWI).
Furthermore, with the new agreement a new discount rate of 15% applies on APCs for accepted articles in any Frontiers journal by corresponding authors affiliated with any of the above listed 12 institutions. This discount is applied to the net APC, which is the APC which would otherwise be payable after deduction of any other discounts (e.g., editorial-board-membership and Research Topic contribution discounts).
This agreement will further encourage Helmholtz Association authors to publish open access, benefiting scientific research and the public at large as well as supporting the goals set out in the Helmholtz Association's open access policy, according to which, by the end of 2020, 60% of the publications from the previous year falling under this policy will be open access.
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