Max Planck Society Becomes a PeerJ Annual Institutional Member

The Max Planck Society has joined the PeerJ AIMs program, providing unlimited, APC-free publishing for their institutes’ authors to ensure their research is made openly available

We are excited to welcome the latest member of the PeerJ AIMs program, the Max Planck Society. This Membership ensures that researchers affiliated with a Max Planck institute, and who submit to a PeerJ journal as the corresponding or admin author, will be automatically eligible to publish without having to pay any publication fees.

About the Max Planck Society

The Max Planck Society operates a number of research institutions in Germany as well as internationally. Financed by the national government and federal states of Germany, the Max Planck Society engages in basic research in the public interest. Making its scientists’ research findings available for the benefit of the whole of humanity, free of charge whenever possible (Open Access), is a key aspiration of the Society. The Max Planck Society is a co-founder of the international Open Access movement. The publication of the “Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities” on 22 October 2003 and the subsequent annual conferences heralded the introduction of a process that heightened awareness around the theme of accessibility to scientific information.

Max Planck researchers can find out more on their PeerJ page , or by watching the video below.

A PeerJ Annual Institutional Membership (AIM) provides unlimited, frictionless OA publishing for institutional partners and their faculty. Simple to manage, easy to purchase and providing great cost saving opportunities, researchers will never have to worry about having to pay an APC, and librarians can say goodbye to the administrative overhead of dealing with payments on an article by article basis.

AIMs pricing is tiered and based on an institution’s publishing history in PeerJ’s journal portfolio. When a partner’s renewal is calculated, if the equivalent APC cost would have been less than the Membership fee, they can choose to carry over the difference towards their Membership renewal, or contribute to PeerJ’s Global Publishing Fund, which supports authors without the means to publish OA. AIMs simplify OA and are an important step towards a non-APC future of globally equitable access to read and publish open science.

Institutions who are interested in AIMs should contact PeerJ.