Transformative Agreement with Institutions in Germany and Switzerland
Germany
Hogrefe and the Göttingen State and University Library, which led negotiations on behalf of the libraries, have concluded a nationwide framework agreement on open access transformation (Read-and-Publish).
Switzerland
More than 100 German institutions participate in this model. In Switzerland, such a Read-and-Publish agreement has been signed with the “PH Konsortium”, which currently includes eight universities of teacher education.
Both agreements enable authors from participating institutions to publish open access without paying an APC in Hogrefe's hybrid journals in the fields of psychology, psychotherapy, and psychiatry (PsyJOURNALS).
For you as an author, this means that you do not have to pay an APC (article publication charge) yourself, if you are publishing at one of the participating institutions. On this page we have summarized the most important points for you.
You can publish in any of the transformative journals in the PsyJOURNALS portfolio. For more information on the titles, the submission process, and author guidelines, please visit the respective journal pages.
Here you can download the list of participating institutions for 2025. Please note that these lists are subject to change/update.
If you are a "Corresponding Author" from a participating institution, submit the article to one of our journals, and the manuscript is accepted for publication, you can publish the article Open Access under the agreement.
"Corresponding author" means the person who submits the manuscript to the journal, is responsible for correspondence regarding the article, and is listed as such within the article. This has no influence on the naming of all contributing authors and the indication of the corresponding institutions.
You will be made aware of this agreement during the publication process. The agreement came into force on January 1, 2021. Original articles received by the publisher as an accepted manuscript after that date will be checked by your contact person at the publisher. You will be sent a release form tailored to the agreement and can inform us under which license you would like to publish the article.
In the form, you will be asked to indicate your institutional affiliation. This institution must subsequently confirm your affiliation and will be named in the article as the funding institution. When indicating your institutional affiliation, please make sure that you name the institution at which you are working at the time of publication of the article (even if you have moved). If you are researching and working at more than one institution, the first-named ("Primary Affiliation") applies.
Here you can find a template of the license release/choice of publication as a download.
Note: Please download the document in order to use the form functions.
Authorized articles are research papers – often called "original articles". The term is used here as a collective term for all those articles for which Hogrefe collects APCs, but which may also be referred to using other terms in individual journals (such as review article, multistudy report, research trend).
Other contributions such as book reviews, short news items, conference reports, are not included among the eligible article types.
There will be a funding note referring to the participating institution in the articles.
Plan S is an initiative aimed at making scientific publications resulting from publicly funded research freely accessible. If Open Access publications comply with Plan S, it means they meet certain requirements set by the initiative. Yes, Open access publications under the transformative agreements from Hogrefe are acknowledged by cOAlition S and are Plan S compliant. The agreement is listed accordingly in ESAC Registry.
You can choose from the following licenses.
There are no additional costs for you or your institution for articles published under the Read-and-publish agreement with Hogrefe. The fee paid by your institution in advance covers both online access to the journals (reading rights) and the publication costs (Article Processing Charges, APCs). There is no cap on the number of OA publications.
If your institution has internal cost distribution models for authors, Hogrefe is not involved in these. Please check with your institution for more information.
The goal of the agreement is to increase and promote open access content in our transformative journals. Therefore, all authorized articles from participating institutions can be published open access. However, you still have a right to object, i.e., you are free to opt out the open access option. This option is offered to you in the licence release form. Participating institutions are permitted to ask Hogrefe whether there have been opt outs in the current contract year.
Reduced APCs for papers in our open access journals
Since the following titles are already full open access journals, papers in them are not covered by the Transformative Agreement. Hogrefe grants participating institutions a 25% reduction on regular APCs (article publication charge) for these journals – a further helping hand on our journey towards open access. All that you as an author need to do is to claim your APC reduction is to apply and send us proof that you are working at one of the participating institutions.
The careful and secure processing of personal data is an important part of the cooperation between the institutions involved, the Hogrefe Publishing Group, and you, our authors. All information about the processing of your data can be found on this page.
