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Open Access Publishing

Get an overview of digital tools and services at our MPI which may facilitate and support your publishing process. Profit from a huge number of agreements to publish OA at no extra charge.

Open Access Publications at Max Planck Institute Magdeburg

Get an overview of OA Publications at MPI Magdeburg more

MPG Open Access Journal Finder

Find a suitable OA journal for your publication where the APC is covered by Max Planck Society. more

B!SON - Recommender system for quality-assured Open Access Journals

Find a suitable OA journal for your publication by leveraging semantic and bibliometric methods. Includes information if the APC is covered by Max Planck Society, but is not limited to these ones. more

MPG Open Access Book Publishing

Profit from discounts on the Book Processing and Chapter Publishing Charge for the Publishers Cambridge University Press, de Gruyter and Springer Nature

Self-Archiving of Publications

If you have published your paper in a subscription based journal and you want to publish the accepted manuscript/postprint you can archive and publish this version in MPG.PuRe, the publication repository of MPS. Please get in contact with me - we will have a look at the terms of the publisher.