The Max Planck Society has announced a new agreement with SPIE the international society for optics and photonics. Research articles by authors at the Max Planck Society institutes that are published in SPIE journals will be open access. The Max Planck Society will pay open access fees for articles submitted by researchers at its institutes to any of the ten SPIE journals.
SPIE journals are part of the SPIE Digital Library, which contains more than 400,000 articles from SPIE peer-reviewed journals, conference proceedings, and books, with approximately 18,000 new research articles added each year. Abstracts are freely searchable, and a rapidly increasing number of full journal articles are published with open access.
An author-choice open access publishing program for journals launched last year by SPIE has met with strong participation from authors, considerably increasing the volume of freely accessible, peer-reviewed optics and photonics research literature as a result. The agreement with Max Planck Digital Library provides a valuable new source of even more open access literature.
The SPIE program allows authors to have their journal articles open access immediately on publication in one of SPIE's journals. Authors retain copyright through a Creative Commons CC-BY license.
