JGU authors receive a 50% discount on the Open Access publication fees (APCs) listed by the publisher in all Bentham Science journals. The articles can be published as Gold Open Access.

Mainz University Library will participate in the BMJ Journals Online Consortium in 2025 and 2026. Members of Mainz University and Mainz University Medical Center can publish articles free of charge in the 26 journals of the BMJ Standard Collection (hybrid journals).

Due to JGU's OA-Policy, we ask you to publish your articles under a CC BY license. More information about the submission process can be found at: Open access agreements for Germany: Information for authors.

Mainz University Library participates in a publish&read agreement via an alliance license with Cambridge University Press. It entitles authors at JGU and University Medical Center to publish unlimited and free of charge in a large number of hybrid CUP journals.

Please note that the decision regarding Open Access publication without charge must be made no later than after the article's acceptance.. In line with JGU's Open Access Policy, we deeply encourage you to take advantage of this option.

An agreement with Copernicus Publications is expected to run until December 31, 2025.
This license allows all members of JGU and University Medical Center to publish in the Gold Open Access journals from the Earth, Engineering, and Life Sciences. The list of titles can be found at Copernicus Publications–Journals A-Z.
 
The publication costs of up to EUR 2,000 gross at APCs are financed directly from funds from JGU's joint Open Access Publication Fund. You will not receive an invoice from the publisher for amounts up to EUR 2,000. A separate application to the publication fund is not required in these cases.
For higher APCs, you as an author must first pay the APC and can then submit an application for funding to us.
The prerequisite for the costs to be covered is that the funding criteria of the publication fund are met.

Please note that we can only accept funding for publications with a funding code from a third-party funding body if you can confirm to us at short notice that you do not have any third-party funding available for publication costs.

From 2024 to 2025, JGU authors can publish open access free of charge in the hybrid humanities, social sciences and economics journals at De Gruyter. In addition, there is a 20% discount on APCs for pure Open Access journals during the contract period.
For more information, see: Funding & Support | De Gruyter

If you, as an author at JGU, submit an article to Frontiers with an APC of a maximum of EUR 2,000 including taxes, the publication costs incurred will be billed directly through the university library. Frontiers offers a 10% discount on publication costs for APCs, costing up to a maximum of EUR 2,000, including taxes. For articles with a higher APC, the publication costs must be paid by the authors. After the article has been published, you can apply for proportional funding (maximum EUR 2,000) from the publication fund.

All discounts for articles costing more than EUR 2,000 must be negotiated individually between the authors and Frontiers. In these cases, no additional institutional discounts will be offered by the provider.

The general requirement for reimbursement is that the funding criteria of the publishing fund are met and that funds are still available at the time the invoice is issued. If the publication fund is unable to cover the costs, you will receive a message and an invoice for the publication fee to be paid after submission, which you will then pay yourself.

Please note that we can only accept funding for publications with a funding code from a third-party funding body if you can confirm to us at short notice that you do not have any third-party funding available for publication costs.

In 2025 and 2026, Mainz University Library will offer JGU members the opportunity to publish articles in all John Benjamin's Open Access journals at no additional cost. The journal articles must be accepted in 2025 or 2026.

JGU participates in the PNAS Consortium. Authors at JGU and the University Medical Center have the option of choosing between immediate Open Access or delayed Open Access for the publication of their articles.

The price for an article to be published immediately Open Access is USD 5,300 for corresponding authors of University 2025 (compared to the regular fee of USD 5,800). In 2026 the price is USD 5,595 (regular: USD 5,995). These prices include all charges, i.e. both the page charges and the surcharge for immediate open access and thus represent the final price (for articles up to 12 pages in length). Authors can freely choose between the CC BY-NC-ND or the CC BY license. We recommend the CC BY license.  

Brief report articles cost USD 2,520 per article with a CC BY or CC BY-NC-ND license. All short reports are freely accessible immediately after publication. 

If authors choose the delayed open access option for the publication of their articles, the price is USD 2,750 in 2025.  The delayed Open Access will cost USD 2,945 from 2026. All articles published through PNAS are automatically made available in Open Access after six months. Here too, the prices quoted include all fees incurred for publication (for articles up to 12 pages in length). With delayed Open Access, all articles are published under a CC BY-NC-ND license. 

Please note: Unfortunately, no additional financial support can be provided through JGU's Open Access Publishing Fund, as PNAS is not a pure Open Access journal.

Due to Mainz University's participation in the GASCO consortium AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science), the publisher grants JGU authors a 15% discount on APCs for the title "Science Advances". Please pay attention to the Workflow (PDF). It represents the necessary procedure for offsetting the APC discount, as this procedure is not automatic.

JGU is a member of the Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics–German Universities: Scoap3-DH. Scientists therefore have the opportunity to publish in various Open Access journals in the field of high-energy physics free of charge or at a discount on publication costs.

Mainz University has joined the DEAL agreement with Springer Nature (Title List of Journals, xlsx file).

Gold Open Access Publishing:
If you, as an author from JGU or University Medical Center, submit an article to one of Springer Nature’s Gold Open Access journals, the publication costs incurred in 2024 and 2025 will be financed from central funds from the University and settled by the University Library.
The special conditions described above apply to the article type “Research Article” (= Original Paper, Review Paper, Brief Communication). APCs for the journals “Scientific Reports” and “Nature Communications” are also billed centrally.
In the years 2026 to 2028, the APCs of EUR 2,000 will be passed on a pro rata basis.

Publications with Open Access option (hybrid publications):
The APCs for publications with an Open Access option (“Open Choice”) are initially paid for from central funds. Each article is funded with a maximum of EUR 2,000. The remaining costs are be deducted from the respective departments’ state funds in the following year.
This applies to the following article types:

• Research Articles (= Original Paper, Review Paper, Brief Communication)
  PLEASE NOTE: The following applies to the specialist medical journals of Springer Medizin-Verlag listed in the DEAL journal list, as indicated in the DEAL journal list: Only research articles that are not requested as part of editorial programming and are actively edited are considered eligible articles.
• Non-Research Articles (= Editorial Notes, Book Reviews, Letters, Reports)
  PLEASE NOTE: For the specialist medical journals of Springer Medizin-Verlag listed in the DEAL journal list, as indicated in the DEAL journal list, non-research articles are not considered eligible articles (see Title List).

Please make sure that you do NOT opt out of the Open Access option during the publication process. If opt-out is selected, the university incurs exactly the same costs as for an Open Access publication.

As an author, you will generally not be invoiced. Should you still receive an invoice, please contact publikationsfonds@ub.uni-mainz.de.
The journal "Advances in Therapy" may charge a "Rapid Service Fee". This fee is not part of the DEAL contract and is not eligible for funding. 

The use of the Creative Commons license "CC BY" is recommended whenever available. If possible, please do not use non-commercial licenses (NC licenses), as this type of license not only hinders re-use and distribution in accordance with the basic principles of Open Access, but also means that publishers often secure exclusive exploitation rights in this way in order to resell content to AI providers, for example.

Please feel free to find out more at: https://deal-konsortium.de/en/why-ccby