Read & Publish Open Access agreement with the Max Planck Digital Library

Our three-year Read & Publish Open Access agreement with the Max Planck Digital Library runs from 1 January 2021 to 31 December 2023.

Corresponding authors at Max Planck Society’s 86 Institutes benefit from immediate Open Access publication of their research articles in our three hybrid journals – Development, Journal of Cell Science and Journal of Experimental Biology – with no author-facing publishing charges.

Unlimited access to the full journal archives dating back to 1853 is also available as part of the agreement.

In addition, this landmark agreement enables corresponding authors at Max Planck Institutes to publish research articles without charge in The Company of Biologists’ fully Open Access journals – Disease Models & Mechanisms and Biology Open.

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Max Planck Society Institutes

Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History
The Friedrich Miescher Laboratory of the Max Planck Society
Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society
Art History Institute in Florence – Max-Planck-Institute
Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
Max Planck Institute for Astronomy
Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics
Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law
Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law
Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy
Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law
Max Planck Institute for Human Development
Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion
Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry
Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
Max Planck Institute for the Biology of Ageing
Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics
Max Planck Institute of Biophysics
Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry (Karl Friedrich Bonhoeffer Institute)
Max Planck Institute for Chemistry (Otto Hahn Institute)
Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology
Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids
Max Planck Institute for Cyber Security and Privacy
Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light
Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems
Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization
Max Planck Institute for Iron Research GmbH
Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics
Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology
Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology
Max Planck Institute for Experimental Medicine
Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics
Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research
Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies
Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute)
Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research (W. G. Kerckhoff Institute)
Max Planck Institute for Brain Research
Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition
Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics
Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology
Max Planck Institute for Informatics
Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics
Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
Max Planck Institute of Coal Research
Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces
Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology
Max Planck Institute for Mathematics
Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences
Max Planck Institute for Medical Research
Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems
Max Planck Institute for Meteorology
Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics
Max Planck Institute of Molecular Biomedicine
Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics
Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology
Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology
Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics
Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology
Max Planck Institute for Metabolism Research
Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History
Max Planck Institute for Ornithology
Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research
Max Planck Institute of Physics (Werner Heisenberg Institute)
Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems
Max Planck Institute of Plasma Physics (incl. MPCDF)
Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research
Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics
Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy
Max Planck Institute for Software Systems
Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research
Max Planck Institute for Structure and Dynamics of Matter
Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance
Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity
Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods
Max Planck Research Unit for Neurogenetics
Max Planck Research Unit for Pathogens
Administrative Headquarters of the Max Planck Society
Max Planck Digital Library

What authors at Max Planck institutes say about the agreement:

Dr Aydan Bulut-Karslioglu, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Germany

"We are delighted to publish our paper in Development immediately Open Access under the Read & Publish agreement with the Max Planck Institutes. Such agreements allow immediate dissemination of our science without fees and provide a good publishing model."

Read Aydan Bulut-Karslioglu’s article in Development

Dr Vlad Demartsev, Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, Germany

"The Read & Publish agreement between The Company of Biologists and Max Planck Digital Library allows quick and easy Open Access publishing – no hoops to jump through, literally just a few clicks. With Open Access becoming a frequent and justified requirement by funders and academic institutions, such a hassle-free process is yet another incentive for submitting work to JEB."

Read Dr Vlad Demartsev’s article in Journal of Experimental Biology