The Thieme Group has signed a transformation agreement with ZB MED - Information Center for Life Sciences, the Research Center Jülich and eight other specialist libraries. As part of the current agreement, which comes into effect on January 1, 2021, authors from the participating institutions receive the opportunity to publish their original papers in four international specialist Thieme journals on an open access basis without additional cost. The offer includes the publications International Journal of Sports Medicine, Pharmacopsychiatry, Thrombosis and Haemostasis and Methods of Information in Medicine. Thieme already reached a similar agreement in 2019. The pilot project was initially restricted to the specialist journal Hormone and Metabolic Research.
For the use of the selected Thieme specialist journals in the new business model, in the coming five years the participating specialist libraries will pay a fee consisting of a licence for reading and a publication lump sum for the open access publication of authors at these institutions. Here, the number of open access publications is not limited. The specialist journals in question were consciously chosen by the participants: each publication covers a very research-intensive domain in which German scientists publish extensively. After approximately half of the agreement term, the contractual partners will review jointly how the open access submissions are developing. In the process, the licence fee will be gradually converted into a publication fee.
The quality assurance of the publications is a crucial aspect for all participating project partners. The services of the Thieme Group are as extensive in open-access publications as in traditional magazine articles. The Group gladly offers a high-standard peer-review by internationally leading experts as well as professional editing for open access articles.
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