Authors affiliated with Freie Universität Berlin as a DEAL participating institution can publish their articles open access without receiving an invoice from Springer Nature.
The agreement covers over 1.900 hybrid journals.
The open access publication process
Submission and editorial acceptance: corresponding author receives an invitation from Springer to finalize the publication process of the submitted article.
Author identification: corresponding author identifies himself or herself as affiliated with FU.
Verification: an identified article is forwarded to the University Library (Team Dokumentenserver) for the final verification check.
Publication: As soon as your affiliation has been confirmed by us, the article is published open access. The OA Funding Note (acknowledgement) is added to your article.
Publication in a hybrid journal
In case of rejection, you have the possibility to finance the open access publication of the article from your own funds or to publish your article in a traditional way (closed access).
Applies to hybrid journals: After the identification the authors have the option to "Opt-out“, i.e. they can deny the open access publication of their article.
