Not-for-profit society publisher IOP Publishing (IOPP) and TIB – Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology have established a consortium agreement which enables researchers at participating German institutions to publish unlimited articles on an open access (OA) basis in 56 hybrid and 15 fully open access (OA) journals.
The three-year transformative agreement brings the price of publishing services and reading access together in one central fee, eliminating any author-facing charges for OA publication in the eligible journals.
This is IOPP’s largest agreement combining unlimited publishing with the inclusion of most of IOPP’s journal portfolio. It is expected that under the agreement over 1800 articles will be published OA by researchers affiliated with German institutions in the next three years.
Another improvement is the addition of administrative support for the 70 participating institutions. Identification of all qualifying articles will be executed by IOPP taking away the time-consuming process of validating papers or other barriers.
This progressive deal expands on the Institutional Research License (IRL) 2019-2021, under which nearly 700 articles have been published by affiliated authors on a hybrid open access basis.
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