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Nature transformative agreement for Germany

Information for authors

If you are a corresponding author affiliated with a participating German university or research institution, you are entitled to publish open access (OA) in with your fees covered. 

More than 90 German institutions are participating in the first ever Transformative Agreement for , meaning that corresponding authors* affiliated with these institutions are eligible to publish their articles OA with fees covered. The agreement includes Nature, the world's leading multidisciplinary science journal, first published in 1869 and original Nature Research journals across the life, physical, clinical and social sciences.

*Acting as main contact for 50¶È»Ò correspondence after editorial acceptance.

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Germany Nature Transformative Agreement: 2 years in review
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Participating institutions

A

  • Alfred-Wegener-Institut Helmholtz-Zentrum f¨¹r Polar- und Meeresforschung (AWI)
  • Archiv der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft

B

  • Bergische Universit?t Wuppertal


  • Brandenburgische Technische Universit?t Cottbus - Senftenberg
  • Bundesanstalt f¨¹r Materialforschung und -pr¨¹fung (BAM)
  • Bundesministerium f¨¹r Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit (BMU)

C

  • Christian-Albrechts-Universit?t zu Kiel
  • Constructor University Bremen gGmbH

D

  • Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina e.V. - Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften


D (continued)

  • Deutscher Bundestag
  • Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY)
  • Deutsches Herzzentrum M¨¹nchen
  • Deutsches Institut f¨¹r Ern?hrungsforschung Potsdam-Rehbr¨¹cke (DIfE)
  • Deutsches Klimarechenzentrum GmbH (DKRZ)
  • Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum (DKFZ)
  • Deutsches Rheuma-Forschungszentrum Berlin (DRFZ)
  • Deutsches Zentrum f¨¹r Luft- und Raumfahrt e.v. (DLR)
  • Deutsches Zentrum f¨¹r Neurodegenerative Erkrankungen e.V. (DZNE) in der Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft

E

  • EMBL?s European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI)
  • Ernst Str¨¹ngmann Institut gGmbH (ESI)
  • European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL)
  • European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) Barcelona
  • European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) Grenoble
  • European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) Hamburg
  • European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) Rome

F

  • Ferdinand-Braun-Institut gGmbH, Leibniz-Institut f¨¹r H?chstfrequenztechnik
  • FernUniversit?t in Hagen
  • FH M¨¹nster
  • Forschungszentrum Borstel - Leibniz Lungenzentrum
  • Forschungszentrum J¨¹lich GmbH
  • Fraunhofer Institutszentrum Schloss Birlinghoven IZB
  • Fraunhofer Institutszentrum Stuttgart IZS
  • Fraunhofer-Einrichtung Forschungsfertigung Batteriezelle FFB
  • Fraunhofer-Einrichtung f¨¹r Additive Produktionstechnologien IAPT
  • Fraunhofer-Einrichtung f¨¹r Energieinfrastruktur und Geothermie IEG
  • Fraunhofer-Einrichtung f¨¹r Individualisierte und Zellbasierte Medizintechnik IMTE
  • Fraunhofer-Einrichtung f¨¹r Mikrosysteme und Festk?rper-Technologien EMFT
  • Fraunhofer-Einrichtung f¨¹r Wertstoffkreisl?ufe und Ressourcenstrategie IWKS
  • Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur F?rderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
  • Fraunhofer-Informationszentrum Raum und Bau IRB
  • Fraunhofer-Institut f¨¹r Algorithmen und Wissenschaftliches Rechnen SCAI
  • Fraunhofer-Institut f¨¹r Angewandte Festk?rperphysik IAF
  • Fraunhofer-Institut f¨¹r Angewandte Informationstechnik FIT
  • Fraunhofer-Institut f¨¹r Angewandte Optik und Feinmechanik IOF
  • Fraunhofer-Institut f¨¹r Angewandte Polymerforschung IAP
  • Fraunhofer-Institut f¨¹r Angewandte und Integrierte Sicherheit AISEC
  • Fraunhofer-Institut f¨¹r Arbeitswirtschaft und Organisation IAO
  • Fraunhofer-Institut f¨¹r Bauphysik IBP
  • Fraunhofer-Institut f¨¹r Betriebsfestigkeit und Systemzuverl?ssigkeit LBF
  • Fraunhofer-Institut f¨¹r Biomedizinische Technik IBMT
  • Fraunhofer-Institut f¨¹r Chemische Technologie ICT
  • Fraunhofer-Institut f¨¹r Digitale Medientechnologie IDMT
  • Fraunhofer-Institut f¨¹r Digitale Medizin MEVIS
  • Fraunhofer-Institut f¨¹r Elektronische Nanosysteme ENAS
  • Fraunhofer-Institut f¨¹r Energiewirtschaft und Energiesystemtechnik IEE
  • Fraunhofer-Institut f¨¹r Entwurfstechnik Mechatronik IEM
  • Fraunhofer-Institut f¨¹r Experimentelles Software Engineering IESE
  • Fraunhofer-Institut f¨¹r Fabrikbetrieb und -automatisierung IFF
  • Fraunhofer-Institut f¨¹r Fertigungstechnik und Angewandte Materialforschung IFAM
  • Fraunhofer-Institut f¨¹r Fertigungstechnik und Angewandte Materialforschung IFAM, Institutsteil Dresden
  • Fraunhofer-Institut f¨¹r Gie?erei-, Composite und
  • Fraunhofer-Institut f¨¹r Graphische Datenverarbeitung IGD
  • Fraunhofer-Institut f¨¹r Grenzfl?chen- und Bioverfahrenstechnik IGB
  • Fraunhofer-Institut f¨¹r Gro?strukturen in der Produktionstechnik IGP
  • Fraunhofer-Institut f¨¹r Hochfrequenzphysik und Radartechnik FHR
  • Fraunhofer-Institut f¨¹r Holzforschung, Wilhelm-Klauditz-Institut WKI
  • Fraunhofer-Institut f¨¹r Integrierte Schaltungen IIS
  • Fraunhofer-Institut f¨¹r Integrierte Schaltungen IIS, Institutsteil Entwicklung Adaptiver Systeme, Fraunhofer IISEAS
  • Fraunhofer-Institut f¨¹r Integrierte Systeme und Bauelementetechnologie IISB
  • Fraunhofer-Institut f¨¹r Intelligente Analyse- und Informationssysteme IAIS
  • Fraunhofer-Institut f¨¹r Keramische Technologien und Systeme IKTS
  • Fraunhofer-Institut f¨¹r Kognitive Systeme IKS
  • Fraunhofer-Institut f¨¹r Kommunikation, Informationsverarbeitung und Ergonomie FKIE
  • Fraunhofer-Institut f¨¹r Kurzzeitdynamik, Ernst-Mach-Institut EMI
  • Fraunhofer-Institut f¨¹r Lasertechnik ILT
  • Fraunhofer-Institut f¨¹r Materialfluss und Logistik IML
  • Fraunhofer-Institut f¨¹r Mikroelektronische Schaltungen und Systeme IMS
  • Fraunhofer-Institut f¨¹r Mikrostruktur von Werkstoffen und Systemen IMWS
  • Fraunhofer-Institut f¨¹r Mikrotechnik und Mikrosysteme IMM
  • Fraunhofer-Institut f¨¹r Molekularbiologie und Angewandte Oekologie IME, Molekulare Biotechnologie
  • Fraunhofer-Institut f¨¹r Nachrichtentechnik, Heinrich-Hertz-Institut HHI
  • Fraunhofer-Institut f¨¹r Naturwissenschaftlich-Technische Trendanalysen INT
  • Fraunhofer-Institut f¨¹r Offene Kommunikationssysteme FOKUS
  • Fraunhofer-Institut f¨¹r Optronik, Systemtechnik und Bildauswertung IOSB
  • Fraunhofer-Institut f¨¹r Organische Elektronik, Elektronenstrahl- und Plasmatechnik FEP
  • Fraunhofer-Institut f¨¹r Photonische Mikrosysteme IPMS
  • Fraunhofer-Institut f¨¹r Physikalische Messtechnik IPM
  • Fraunhofer-Institut f¨¹r Produktionsanlagen und Konstruktionstechnik IPK
  • Fraunhofer-Institut f¨¹r Produktionstechnik und Automatisierung IPA
  • Fraunhofer-Institut f¨¹r Produktionstechnologie IPT
  • Fraunhofer-Institut f¨¹r Schicht- und Oberfl?chentechnik IST
  • Fraunhofer-Institut f¨¹r Sichere Informationstechnologie SIT
  • Fraunhofer-Institut f¨¹r Silicatforschung ISC
  • Fraunhofer-Institut f¨¹r Siliziumtechnologie ISIT
  • Fraunhofer-Institut f¨¹r Software- und Systemtechnik ISST
  • Fraunhofer-Institut f¨¹r Solare Energiesysteme ISE
  • Fraunhofer-Institut f¨¹r System- und Innovationsforschung ISI
  • Fraunhofer-Institut f¨¹r Techno- und Wirtschaftsmathematik ITWM
  • Fraunhofer-Institut f¨¹r Toxikologie und Experimentelle Medizin ITEM
  • Fraunhofer-Institut f¨¹r Translationale Medizin und Pharmakologie ITMP
  • Fraunhofer-Institut f¨¹r Umwelt-, Sicherheits- und Energietechnik UMSICHT
  • Fraunhofer-Institut f¨¹r Verfahrenstechnik und Verpackung IVV
  • Fraunhofer-Institut f¨¹r Verkehrs- und Infrastruktursysteme IVI
  • Fraunhofer-Institut f¨¹r Werkstoff- und Strahltechnik IWS
  • Fraunhofer-Institut f¨¹r Werkstoffmechanik IWM
  • Fraunhofer-Institut f¨¹r Werkzeugmaschinen und Umformtechnik IWU
  • Fraunhofer-Institut f¨¹r Windenergie und Energiesystemtechnik IWES
  • Fraunhofer-Institut f¨¹r Zelltherapie und Immunologie IZI
  • Fraunhofer-Institut f¨¹r Zelltherapie und Immunologie IZI, Institutsteil Bioanalytik und Bioprozesse des Fraunhofer IZI-BB
  • Fraunhofer-Institut f¨¹r Zerst?rungsfreie Pr¨¹fverfahren IZFP
  • Fraunhofer-Institut f¨¹r Zuverl?ssigkeit und Mikrointegration IZM
  • Fraunhofer-Verbund IUK-Technologie
  • Fraunhofer-Verbund Mikroelektronik (1050)
  • Fraunhofer-Zentrum f¨¹r Internationales Management und Wissens?konomie IMW
  • Freie Universit?t Berlin
  • Friedrich Miescher Laboratory of the Max Planck Society
  • Friedrich-Schiller-Universit?t Jena
  • Fritz-Haber-Institute of the Max Planck Society

G

  • Generalverwaltung der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
  • GEOMAR Helmholtz-Zentrum f¨¹r Ozeanforschung Kiel
  • GERICS, Climate Service Center Germany
  • German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) gGmbH
  • Gesellschaft f¨¹r wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung mbH G?ttingen (GWDG)
  • Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Bibliothek - Nieders?chsische Landesbibliothek
  • GSI Helmholtzzentrum f¨¹r Schwerionenforschung GmbH

H

  • Heart and Diabetes Centre North Rhine-Westphalia (DKZ NRW)
  • Helmholtz Zentrum M¨¹nchen - Deutsches Forschungszentrum f¨¹r Gesundheit und Umwelt (GmbH)
  • Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin f¨¹r Materialien und Energie GmbH
  • Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden - Rossendorf e.V.
  • Helmholtz-Zentrum f¨¹r Infektionsforschung GmbH (HZI)
  • Helmholtz-Zentrum f¨¹r Umweltforschung GmbH - UFZ
  • Helmholtz-Zentrum hereon GmbH
  • Helmholtz-Zentrum Potsdam Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum - GFZ
  • Hochschule Emden/Leer
  • Hochschule f¨¹r angewandte Wissenschaften M¨¹nchen
  • Hochschule Rhein-Waal
  • Hochschule Stralsund
  • Hochschule Zittau/G?rlitz

I

  • Institute of Health Economics and Health Care Management (IGM)

J

  • Julius-Maximilians-Universit?t W¨¹rzburg
  • Justus-Liebig-Universit?t Gie?en

K

  • Karlsruher Institut f¨¹r Technologie (KIT)
  • Klinikum rechts der Isar der Technischen Universit?t M¨¹nchen

L

  • Landesbibliothek Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
  • Leibniz-Forschungsinstitut f¨¹r Molekulare Pharmakologie im Forschungsverbund Berlin e.V. (FMP)
  • Leibniz-Institut DSMZ - Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH
  • Leibniz-Institut f¨¹r Analytische Wissenschaften - ISAS - e.V.
  • Leibniz-Institut f¨¹r Arbeitsforschung (IfADo)
  • Leibniz-Institut f¨¹r Astrophysik Potsdam (AIP)
  • Leibniz-Institut f¨¹r Festk?rper- und Werkstoffforschung Dresden (IFW)
  • Leibniz-Institut f¨¹r Gew?sser?kologie und Binnenfischerei (IGB) im Forschungsverbund Berlin e.V.
  • Leibniz-Institut f¨¹r Katalyse e.V. (LIKAT Rostock)
  • Leibniz-Institut f¨¹r Neue Materialien gGmbH (INM)
  • Leibniz-Institut f¨¹r Neurobiologie (LIN)
  • Leibniz-Institut f¨¹r Pflanzenbiochemie
  • Leibniz-Institut f¨¹r Polymerforschung Dresden e.V.
  • Leibniz-Zentrum f¨¹r Marine Tropenforschung (ZMT) GmbH
  • Leuphana Universit?t L¨¹neburg

M

  • Max Planck Computing and Data Facility
  • Max Planck Digital Library (MPDL)
  • Max Planck Innovation GmbH
  • Max Planck Institute Florence
  • Max Planck Institute for Astronomy
  • Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics (MPA)
  • Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
  • Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics
  • Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence
  • Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing
  • Max Planck Institute for Biology T¨¹bingen
  • Max Planck Institute for Brain Research
  • Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion
  • Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids
  • Max Planck Institute for Chemistry
  • Max Planck Institute for Colloids and Interfaces (MPIKG)
  • Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law
  • Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law
  • Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
  • Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization (MPIDS)
  • Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems (MPI Magdeburg)
  • Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics
  • Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
  • Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology
  • Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics
  • Max Planck Institute for Geoanthropology
  • Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics
  • Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research
  • Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
  • Max Planck Institute for Human Development
  • Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology
  • Max Planck Institute for Informatics
  • Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition (IMPRS-CI, IP MPG)
  • Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems
  • Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory
  • 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 Metabolism Research
  • Max Planck Institute for Meteorology
  • Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine
  • Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics
  • Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences
  • Max Planck Institute for Neurobiology of Behavior ¨C caesar
  • Max Planck Institute for Physics
  • Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research
  • Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP MPG)
  • Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research
  • Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
  • Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy
  • Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods
  • Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
  • Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy
  • Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS)
  • Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research
  • Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research
  • Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology
  • Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG)
  • Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems
  • Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light
  • Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter
  • Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law
  • Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity
  • Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies (MPIFG)
  • Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
  • Max Planck Institute of Art History
  • Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry
  • Max Planck Institute of Biophysics
  • Max Planck Institute of Chemical Ecology (MPICE)
  • Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics (MPI-IE)
  • Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics
  • Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics
  • Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology
  • Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology
  • Max Planck Institute of Nuclear Physics (MPIK)
  • Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry
  • Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics
  • Max Planck Research Unit for Neurogenetics
  • Max Planck Unit for the Science of Pathogens
  • Max-Born-Institut f¨¹r Nichtlineare Optik und Kurzzeitspektroskopie (MBI) im Forschungsverbund Berlin e.V.
  • Max-Delbr¨¹ck-Centrum f¨¹r Molekulare Medizin in der Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft (MDC)
  • Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur F?rderung der Wissenschaften e.V.
  • Max-Planck-Institut f¨¹r Cybersicherheit und Schutz der Privatsph?re
  • Max-Planck-Institut f¨¹r Eisenforschung GmbH
  • Max-Planck-Institut f¨¹r Kohlenforschung (Stiftung privaten Rechts)
  • Max-Planck-Institut f¨¹r Steuerrecht und ?ffentliche Finanzen
  • Medizinische Hochschule Hannover (MHH)
  • MPG Social Neuroscience Lab
  • Museum f¨¹r Naturkunde ¨C Leibniz-Institut f¨¹r Evolutions- und Biodiversit?tsforschung

O

  • Otto-von-Guericke-Universit?t Magdeburg

P

  • Paul-Drude-Institut f¨¹r Festk?rperelektronik ¨C Leibniz-Institut im Forschungsverbund Berlin e.V. (PDI)
  • Paul-Ehrlich-Institut - Bundesinstitut f¨¹r Impfstoffe und biomedizinische Arzneimittel
  • Potsdam-Institut f¨¹r Klimafolgenforschung (PIK) e.V.
  • Private Universit?t Witten/Herdecke gGmbH

R

  • Rheinland-Pf?lzische Technische Universit?t Kaiserslautern-Landau
  • Robert Koch-Institut
  • Ruhr-Universit?t Bochum

S

  • Semiconductor Laboratory of the Max Planck Society (HLL)
  • Staats- und Universit?tsbibliothek Bremen
  • Staats- und Universit?tsbibliothek Hamburg - Carl von Ossietzky
  • Stiftung Tier?rztliche Hochschule Hannover (TIHO)

T

  • Technische Hochschule N¨¹rnberg
  • Technische Hochschule Wildau
  • Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB)
  • Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB) - Leibniz Informationszentrum Technik und Naturwissenschaften
  • Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB) - Universit?tsbibliothek
  • Technische Universit?t Bergakademie Freiberg
  • Technische Universit?t Braunschweig
  • Technische Universit?t Chemnitz
  • Technische Universit?t Hamburg
  • Technische Universit?t Ilmenau
  • Technische Universit?t M¨¹nchen
  • Technische Universit?t N¨¹rnberg

U

  • Umweltbundesamt
  • Universit?t Augsburg
  • Universit?t Bayreuth
  • Universit?t Bielefeld
  • Universit?t der Bundeswehr M¨¹nchen
  • Universit?t des Saarlandes
  • Universit?t Duisburg-Essen
  • Universit?t Greifswald
  • Universit?t Hamburg
  • Universit?t Hohenheim
  • Universit?t Kassel
  • Universit?t M¨¹nster
  • Universit?t Passau
  • Universit?t Potsdam
  • Universit?t Rostock
  • Universit?t Siegen
  • Universit?t Trier
  • Universit?t Ulm
  • Universit?t zu K?ln
  • Universit?t zu L¨¹beck
  • Universit?tsklinikum der Ruhr-Universit?t Bochum
  • Universit?tsklinikum des Saarlandes und Medizinische Fakult?t der Universit?t des Saarlandes
  • Universit?tsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE)
  • Universit?tsklinikum W¨¹rzburg

V

  • Verarbeitungstechnik IGCV

Z

  • Zentrale der Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft

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