After lengthy negotiations, the international scientific publisher Elsevier and the DEAL consortium have agreed on a publish-and-read contract.
The University of Heidelberg has joined the nationwide contract with Elsevier, which was negotiated by the DEAL consortium. As a member of the University of Heidelberg you have access to the majority of the electronic journals offered by Elsevier.
In addition, you can publish your scientific articles within the framework of the Open Access contract.
Your articles will be published under an open licence, preferably CC-BY.
Further information on licensing in OA journals can be found here. Detailed information on all types of CC licenses can be found here.
Within the framework of the DEAL contract with Elsevier, all publications are subject to costs which are invoiced differently depending on the method of publication. There are the following two ways of publication:
Hybrid Open Access: If the Corresponding Author belongs to the University of Heidelberg or another institution that has joined the DEAL agreement with Elsevier, the costs are covered by the university's contract; for the time being, authors will not incur any additional publication costs.
Gold Open Access: As Corresponding Author, members of Heidelberg University will receive a 20 percent discount on the list prices of publication fees (= Article Processing Charges, APCs) of the Elsevier Fully Gold Open Access journals and a 15% discount on the list prices of the Fully Gold Cell Press and The Lancet journals for articles which have been accepted for publication from October 27th 2023 onwards.
The publication costs for Gold Open Access journals are handled centrally by the University Library and the authors are subsequently invoiced via the University Library (amount including German tax). There is no central financing of the costs.
For detailed information, please visit the Heidelberg University Library website.
Information on Open Access publishing can be found under Reference management, writing, evaluation, cooperation > Open Access