Both organisations are committed to driving more open access publishing, and to making it easier for authors to publish in this way. Combining open access with evidence-based acquisition will enable the institution to decide how they wish to spend their budget and will ease the funding and administrative burden on authors who are publishing open access.
In addition, the flexibility from this new agreement to tailor the programme each year depending on users’ needs will ensure that Max Planck can continually align the publishing model with the evolving needs of its researchers.
Under this new model, new Press books by authors at Max Planck Institutes will be eligible for open access publishing. Backlist titles will also be eligible for open access conversion on a case-by-case basis, and Max Planck researchers will be granted unlimited access to books on Cambridge Core.
The full press release is here.