Open Access / Color Fees for Meteorologische Zeitschrift (Contributions to Atmospheric Sciences)

Beginning with Volume 23, 2014, Meteorologische Zeitschrift was converted into a full Open Access journal. All papers are published under the Creative Commons CC-BY NC license, which allows for free distribution, but prohibits commercial exploitation. Authors retain the copyright to their works.

OA Fee

Open Access publishing in (journal) is supported by SLUB Dresden. Eligible first authors of papers submitted to (journal) shall inform the publishers about their submission. SLUB Dresden will cover the fees for Open Access publishing. Accepted papers submitted by eligible first authors of Technische Universität Dresden must state the following funding acknowledgement at the very end of the paper: Open Access publication of this paper was financed by SLUB Dresden.

The OA-fee (CC-BY-NC or CC-BY license) consists of a base fee (€ 140 per article) and a page fee (€ 119 per published page) and is charged for papers up to and including 20 pages. OA-fees for papers exceeding 20 pages in length are negotiated individually.
Color publicaton is free for Open Access papers.
Fee example: The fee for a hypothetical paper of 6 typeset pages amounts to
€ 140 + € 119 * 6 = € 854.00.
Taxes and color publishing are included

OA-fees are invoiced and payable before a paper is published online.

Meteorologische Zeitschrift (Contributions to Atmospheric Sciences) OA publishing fee overview:
Base fee:	€ 140 (per article)
Page fee:	€ 119 (per published page)

The OA publishing fee includes taxes and color publishing fees.

Other Article Processing Fees

Language editing fee (where required by the editors): € 12 per manuscript page (plus taxes, where applicable)

Financial publication support by Deutsche Meteorologische Gesellschaft (DMG)

The DMG Executive Board has decided to support up to five publications in MetZ per year with up to € 1000 each in order to partly reimburse publication costs to scientists with no or only limited funding for publishing their work, e.g. once their active career has ended or when they are no longer employed by scientific institutions. The maximum support covers the basic fee of 140 € and seven article pages (119 € each).

How to apply for publication support

To apply for publication support, please send the manuscript to be published in MetZ, with abstract and information on motivation, methodology and essential results, a table of contents, the completed and signed publication support application form (download application form here), and a statement why publication support by the DMG is required to the editorial office of MetZ.

Publication support applications are reviewed by the DMG Publication Funding Committee at short notice. The Funding Committee subsequently informs the author of its decision, whereupon the author may regularly submit the manuscript to MetZ online. The authors must notify DMG Office by email within two weeks in case of manuscript rejection by MetZet; if accepted, the awarded funds are transferred to the author as soon as he provides proof of payment of the manuscript fees to the DMG Office.