SAGE Publishing and German Academic Institutions have entered into a new transformative agreement to secure open access publishing rights for affiliated German researchers. Under the new arrangement, authors at more than 100 participating institutions receive coverage for article processing charges for SAGE’s over 900 hybrid journals, and a discount on publishing charges for SAGE’s over 150 participating pure Gold Open Access journals.
Effective as of January 1, 2021, the agreement will last for three years. Additionally, researchers will have access to the SAGE Open Access Portal to track submissions, ensure compliance with open access mandates, and more.
An early driver of open access publishing, SAGE was as a founding board member of the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association and one of two publishing partners in the European Commission-funded FP7 Framework project, the Study of Open Access Publishing. In 2011, the publisher launched SAGE Open, the first broad-spectrum open access journal aimed specifically at the social and behavioral sciences.
More information about SAGE’s open access agreements can be found at https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-agreements.
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