IOP Publishing (IOPP) has established a new, unlimited, transformative open access (OA) agreement with the Max Planck Society, taking an important step forward in the transition of its journals to open access. The three-year agreement, which brings significant advances on their previous agreement, lifts all limitations for Max Planck authors, enabling them to publish all of their articles accepted for publication in IOPP’s full portfolio of 18 fully OA journals and 56 hybrid OA titles openly, with no author-facing APCs.
The Max Planck Society is Germany’s leading research organization, with over 80 affiliated institutes, centers, and facilities around the world, conducting research in the natural sciences, life sciences, social sciences, and the humanities. Thanks to this agreement, the new research produced by the Society’s scientists, selected and peer-reviewed in IOPP journals will be freely and immediately accessible to scholars everywhere.
For Max Planck authors, the new agreement makes it easier to publish open access, as the Max Planck Digital Library (MPDL) covers OA publishing fees centrally, omitting the need for authors to validate the availability of OA publishing funds. Additionally, the new agreement extends all previous reading rights to IOPP journal content.
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