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As part of the DEAL contracts, you can receive a 20 per cent discount on the article processing charges (APC) listed for all purely open access journals from Elsevier, Springer Nature and Wiley. A 15 per cent discount applies to open access journals from Cell Press and The Lancet.

Important: In the case of Elsevier, Springer Nature and Wiley, the invoice for the APC will be sent directly to HAW Hamburg. However, it is the individual or the department that is responsible for financing the APC – i.e. the APC for purely open access publications is not covered by HAW Hamburg as part of DEAL.

As part of the DEAL contracts, you can currently publish open access articles in subscription-based journals from Elsevier, Springer Nature and Wiley under the agreement without additional costs for you as the author. Your individual article will be made available at no cost in the online version of the journal. The financing of open access publications in subscription journals from Elsevier, Springer Nature and Wiley is covered by HAW Hamburg for 2024.

In order to publish an open access article in a journal from the Elsevier, Springer Nature or Wiley publishing houses under the conditions outlined above, you must be a member of HAW Hamburg and the corresponding or submitting author of the article. Please also note that the costs for additional options, such as colour pages, will not be covered as part of the DEAL agreements, but will instead be invoiced to you by the journal.

The following article types are eligible:

• Elsevier: Full Length Article, Review Article, Case Report, Data in Brief, Microarticle, Original Software Publication, Protocol, Replication Study, Short Communication, Short Survey and Video Article.
• Springer Nature: Original Papers, Review Papers, Short Communications, Editorial Notes, Book Reviews, Letters and Reports. Proceedings and non-research articles (Editorial Notes, Book Reviews, Letters and Reports) in pure Open Access journals are excluded.
• Wiley: Primary Research Articles and Review Articles. Editorials, Community News, Book/Media Reviews etc. are excluded.

You can find information about the Springer Nature and Wiley workflows here:
https://www.elsevier.com/open-access/agreements/projekt-deal (Elsevier)https://www.springernature.com/gp/open-research/oa-agreements/germany (Springer Nature) https://authorservices.wiley.com/author-resources/Journal-Authors/open-access/affiliation-policies-payments/german-projekt-deal-agreement.html (Wiley)

By making your research results freely available, you increase their visibility. Open Access publications also lead to higher citation rates in many fields. Additionally, by using Creative Commons licenses, authors retain the rights to their work and do not solely transfer them to publishers. In addition, the funding conditions of numerous research funders (e.g. Horizon Europe, DFG) now expect funded publications to be published as open access.

In 2024, the article processing charges in 28 subscription journals from the BMJ standard collection will be completely covered under the national licences. You can find an overview of the journals on the BMJ Author Hub. Publication generally takes place with a CC-BY-NC licence. A CC-BY licence is only possible when required by a funder.

As part of a transformation agreement, HAW Hamburg has made it possible for its members to publish open access articles free of charge in all of Hogrefe's active subscription journals (hybrid open access). An overview of the journals together with additional information (in German only) is available here. You also have reader access to the entire PsyJOURNALS portfolio.

In the three purely open access journals which are not covered by the transformation agreement, authors receive a 25 per cent discount on the article processing charges. These three journals are the European Journal of Psychology Open, Psychological Test Adaptation and Development (PTAD) and Sports Psychiatry – Journal of Sports and Exercise Psychiatry.

The Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute publishes over 400 open access journals, which cover numerous subject areas (in particular life sciences and engineering, but also business, economics and public health). Overview of the journals

Since the beginning of 2020, HAW Hamburg has had an institutional membership at MDPI. HAW Hamburg members receive a 10 per cent discount on the article processing charge for the journal in question. The affiliation will be recognised automatically via your HAW Hamburg email address and will also be requested as part of the submission process.

PLOS (Public Library of Science) is a prestigious Open Access publisher with 14 journals, including the megajournal PLOS ONE and specialized journals in fields such as Climate, Digital Health, or Sustainability and Transformation.

HAW Hamburg members can publish open access articles without additional charges (hybrid open access) in over 800 subscription journals from SAGE Journals as part of the publish-and-read model. The list of journals covered under the transformation agreement (SAGE premier package) is available here. You also have access to all SAGE journals.

In addition, you will receive a 20 per cent discount on the article processing charges at the 180 purely open access journals.

HAW Hamburg has been part of the transformation contract with Taylor & Francis since 2024. Routledge  is now also part of Taylor & Francis as an imprint. The contract allows you to publish Open Access free of charge and unlimited in the publisher's more than 2,000 hybrid journals ("Open Select"), provided you are the corresponding author of the article. You can find a list of titles here as an Excel sheet.

Since issue 01/02-2023, wt Werkstattstechnik online has been published as an Open Access journal. Thanks to the participation of HAW Hamburg in a consortium initiated by the TIB – Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology and VDI Fachmedien, authors affiliated with the university can publish articles in wt Werkstattstechnik online free of charge in 2024.