Publishing and Open Access

In Cambridge journals (PDF, 273 KB) where the open access publication is covered by the publish-and-read license, researchers of the University of Mannheim can publish open access articles. Additional costs are not incurred. This applies if you are “corresponding author” and your article is published between 1 January 2019 and 31 December 2021.

It is necessary to complete the usual steps to place an article in a journal. Once your article is accepted by Cambridge University Press, fill in the “open access license to publish” form. The Article Processing Charges (APC) shown in the payment process will be reduced to zero after filling in “Mannheim University” as your affiliated institution.

Step-by-step guide

1. Manuscript preparation
2. Manuscript submission
   • Click “Submit your article” on your chosen journal’s homepage
   • Complete the submission form in the Online Peer Review System (OPRS).
3. Manuscript Review
4. Publication decision
   • Your manuscript is accepted for publication.
   • Enter the data of the accepted publication in MADOC.
   • Fill in the open access license to publish form and submit it. This indicates that you wish to publish open access.
5. Payment and production process
   • You receive an e-mail from RightsLink requesting payment of the Article Processing Charge (APC).
   • Login to Rightslink or create a Rightslink account.
   • Input your institution in the section “Affiliation Discount”.
   • Confirm the transaction.
6. Article publication
   • Your article is published as open access.

Read more

Cambridge University Press (PDF, 128 KB) provides more information.

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The DEAL agreement with Springer Nature not only provides access to around 1,900 Springer journals but also offers advantages when it comes to open access publishing. As a researcher of the University of Mannheim you can benefit from these advantages, if you are the “corresponding author” of an article.

Open choice

As a researcher of the University of Mannheim, you are eligible to publish open access in Springer Nature's hybrid journals with the option “open choice”. Additional costs are not incurred.

Requirements:

• You are affiliated with the University of Mannheim and this affiliation is clearly stated in the manuscript to be published.
• You are “corresponding author” of the article.
• The article is published online between 1 January 2020 and 31 December 2022 (“online publication date”).
• The article belongs to one of the following categories: Original paper, review paper, brief communication, editorial notes, book reviews, letters and reports.

To use this option for open access publishing, wait for the article to be accepted. In the publisher’s work flow, please choose the option “open choice” and confirm that you are affiliated with the University of Mannheim.

Gold open access

When publishing in a genuine open access journal of BMC and SpringerOpen, researchers of the University of Mannheim benefit from a 20 percent reduction on the Article Processing Charge (APC).

This applies to articles published online between 1 August 2020 and 31 December 2022, if you are affiliated with the University of Mannheim when the article is accepted, and you are the “corresponding author” of the article.

If you publish in a genuine open access journal, you can apply for additional funding from the Open Access Publishing Fund of the University of Mannheim.

Further information

Springer Nature Open Access Agreement for Germany

List of journals (XLSX, 209 KB)

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If you are a researcher at the University of Mannheim and are publishing a book with Nomos, you can make it available in open access at no cost to yourself.

The publication fee will be covered by the university library and the State of Baden-Württemberg from 1 October 2020 to the end of 2021 as part of a funding program. The publication date of your book is decisive to qualify for funding.

As of the date of publication the books will be openly available online in the Nomos eLibrary.

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You don’t have an ORCID ID yet? Go to the “Institution Account” section on the ORCID website and login with your user name issued by the University IT of the University of Mannheim and the corresponding password. Your ORCID ID will be automatically created.

To ORCID

If you already have an ORCID ID, you can link it to your MADOC entry after logging into MADOC under “Manage ORCID permissions”. The ORCID icon is now visible for each of your publications in MADOC and links to your ORCID entry.

To MADOC

The University Library can export your publication references from MADOC to your ORCID entry and keep them up-to-date for you. To use this service, you can grant us the necessary rights in MADOC.

The University of Mannheim joined the ORCID Germany consortium in 2018.

ORCID

ORCID DE

What is ORCID? (video) 

Schallaböck, Jan/Grafenstein, Max von, ORCID aus datenschutzrechtlicher Sicht. Gutachten im Auftrag des von der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) geförderten Projektes ORCID DE zur Förderung der Open Researcher and Contributor ID in Deutschland, Berlin 2017.