BMJ Publishing Group (BMJ)

Term of contract

01.01.2024 - 31.12.2024

 

Benefits for members of the University of Duisburg-Essen

Hybrid

  • The contract with BMJ entitles UDE authors (corresponding authors) to publish free of charge in selected hybrid journals of the publisher
  • The author fees are paid and financed centrally by the UDE. Invoices are processed by the University Library
  • Please consider that the agreement provides only a limited number of free open access articles. Free articles are assigned on a first-come-first-serve-basis. If the agreement has been exhausted you will be contacted with options for how to proceed with publication. 

Gold

  • Publications in Gold Open Access journals are not part of the contract. The usual author fees (APCs) of BMJ apply for this
  • Financing up to a maximum of €2000 via the University Library is possible. In this regard, please refer to our funding conditions

Requirements

  • You are a member of the UDE and responsible for submitting the article as corresponding author
  • UDE students can apply for article funding if a member of the supervising faculty supports or approves the publication of the paper. In these cases, funding is only granted upon application and is decided on a case-by-case basis
  • The University of Duisburg Essen or the University Hospital must be specified as the first affiliation
  • Eligible article types 

 

Content

 

Information about the author workflow

 

CC licences

  • We recommend the use of the Creative Commons licence CC BY, which provides the greatest possibility of reuse for your work. The less restrictive Creative Commons licences CC BY or CC BY-SA are also recommended in the UDE Open Access Policy
  • Further information on the CC licenses can be found here

 

Who can help?

The Open Access team will be pleased to advise you on all aspects of Open Access:
openaccess.ub@uni-due.de