Support of Open Access Publishing
[Last updated: 2026-02-10]
Cooperative Open Access Funding: Subscribe to Open (S2O)
The MFO supports publishers who finance their journals through the S2O model, thereby enabling OA publication of articles without APCs. Currently, these are the following publishers:
Cooperative Open Access Funding: KOALA Consortium
As a member of the KOALA consortium, initiated by TIB - Leibniz Centre for Science and Technology, we participate in the financing of various mathematics journals. This allows articles in these journals to be published open access without APCs.
Specifically, we support the following consortia:
KOALA Mathematics 2026-2028
- Comptes Rendus Mathématique
- The Annales Henri Lebesgue
- The Journal of Groups, Complexity, Cryptology
- The Journal of Nonsmooth Analysis and Optimization (JNSAO)
KOALA Computer Science and Mathematics 2025-2027
- The Journal of Universal Computer Science (J.UCS)
- Electronic Transactions on Numerical Analysis (ETNA)
- Journal de l'École Polytechnique - Mathématiques
KOALA Mathematics and Computer Sciences 2024-2026
Read and Publish Agreements
The MFO has signed up to open access agreements with selected publishers. These institutional deals give members of the MFO (longterm researchers) a range of benefits, enabling corresponding authors from MFO to publish open access free of charge or at reduced rates in selected journals.
These agreements are Read & Publish (R&P) Deals, offering open access for subscription (hybrid) journals. R&P Deals are known as transformative agreements and aim to transition towards a full open access model. Therefore they are in line with funder requirements as well as MFO's open access policy.
Funding
The MFO covers the article processing charges (APCs) for articles in open access journals and hybrid (subscription) journals to participants in the MFO longterm programs.
Which requirements must be fulfilled?
- You must be the corresponding author of the article
- The article results from a longterm stay at the MFO
- You must explicitly state your primary affiliation to the MFO in the published manuscript
Overview of the agreements
American Institute of Physics (AIP)
- Term: 2021-2026
- Journals covered by this agreement
- Information on the publisher's website
- Reading access: all content published from 1999 through the end of the contract term (frontfile)
American Physical Society (APS)
- Term: 2025-2028
- Journals covered by this agreement
- Information on the publisher's website
- Reading access: access to the publisher's entire journal portfolio
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
- Term: 2025-2027
- Journas covered by this agreement
- Information on the publisher's website
- Reading access: Permanent rights of access and use to the title portfolio
Elsevier (DEAL)
- Term: 2023-2028
- Journals covered by this agreement
- Elsevier information page
- Information on the submission process
- More information on the agreement at DEAL Konsortium
- Reading access: Access to all content from the journals listed in the title list starting in 1995
IOP Publishing (IOP)
- Term: 2026-2028
- Journals covered by this agreement
- IOP information page
- Information on the submission workflow
- Reading access: Access to over 100 journals via IOPscience extra
Nature Transformative Agreement
- Term: 2026-2028
- Journals covered by this agreement (xslx download)
- Publisher's information on the agreement
- Author guide (pdf download)
- Reading access: all content published from 2022 through the end of the contract term
The Royal Society London / Package A: The Physical Sciences Collection
- Term: 2026
- Journals covered by this agreement
- Publisher's information on the agreement
- author journey OA journals
- author journey hybrid journals
- Reading access: Access to both current and archived content in the licensed package
Springer (DEAL)
- Term: 2024-2028 (2nd Term)
- Journals covered by this agreement
- Springer Nature information page
- Information on the submission process
- More information on the agreement at DEAL Konsortium
- Reading access: Access to all content from the journals listed in the title list starting in 1997
Taylor & Francis Transformative Agreement
- Term: 2024-2026
- Journals covered by this agreement
- Information on the publisher's website
- Reading access: Access to all content from the journals listed in the title list starting in 1997
Wiley (DEAL)
- Term: 2024-2028 (2nd Term)
- Journals covered by this agreement
- Wiley information page
- Information on the submission process
- More information on the agreement at DEAL Konsortium
- Reading access: Access to all content from the journals listed in the title list starting in 1997