An agreement between F1000 and the Max Planck Digital Library (MPDL) will cover the cost for Max Planck Society-affiliated authors to publish on F1000Research, making it free for the authors.
The F1000Research publishing model has been designed to remove unnecessary barriers and delays that researchers often face when sharing their research findings. It operates a post-publication, open peer review publishing model which combines the benefits of pre-printing (immediate publication) with expert peer review (quality assurance).
Importantly, F1000Research also provides a cost-effective route to achieving immediate ('gold') open access (OA); all content is licenced by the authors under Creative Commons licenses (CC-BY for articles or CC0 for research data) and available without charge for others to view, access and use. F1000Research is fully compliant with research funder and institution OA requirements - particularly important given the recent announcement led by Science Europe of 'Plan S'.
Agreements between publishers and organisations like the MPDL help to support the transition to a full open access world, by removing the burden of article payment and management from publishing authors, their research institutions and libraries, as well as by removing subscription costs from the whole system.
Since its introduction, F1000Research has seen increasing adoption among researchers and F1000 is now working with a number of high-profile funding agencies, research institutions and organisations across the world, including the Wellcome Trust, Gates Foundation and African Academy of Sciences, to provide open research and data publishing services.
Authors at Max Planck Institutes also have access to the related services F1000Prime and F1000Workspace. F1000Prime is a literature recommendation service helping researchers to quickly discover the articles of greatest relevance to their work, while F1000Workspace is a suite of tools to help researchers to work collaboratively to discover, organise and discuss the literature and use this to support them in writing their manuscripts.
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