You can find our open access calculator here.
Publishing with Mohr Siebeck includes a wide range of services leading up to publication and beyond: personal and long-term support is important to us. Your manuscript will undergo multi-faceted quality control in editing and production for an impeccable presentation of your research. We will optimise the metadata of your publication for all applicable discovery services and take care of its dissemination, distribution and long-term availability across all relevant platforms.
To enable you to make an informed choice of the publication model that is right for you, we offer the following models:
“Basic OA” is entry level publication of an eBook without a print edition. In the “Classic” and “Premium” models, a print edition with different features is added.
“Classic OA” includes a standardised typesetting process according to defined patterns (font: Times New Roman), a guaranteed print run in brochure (paperback) with expected print revenues offset against the publication fee, the mandatory copies of dissertations for your faculty/university, plus five free author copies.
“Premium OA” features an individual typesetting process in our house style (choice of font: Garamond, Minion, Bembo), a guaranteed print run with cloth binding and dust jacket, provision of the required copies for dissertations as well as ten free copies for you personally.
If you do not wish to publish in open access, you can still opt for our proven publication formula. In addition to issuing the purchasable eBook in our eLibrary, the packages include a guaranteed print run in brochure (“Classic non-OA”) or with cloth binding (“Premium non-OA”). The service catalogues correspond to those of the OA variants; in the non-OA models a free electronic copy for personal use only is included.
Please click here for an overview of the packages on offer.
Please note that package availability may vary depending on the program area or series. You will receive a binding offer from us following acceptance of your manuscript. We will also be happy to advise you on possible funding applications and support you in the application process by providing the necessary documents, for example.
A Creative Commons license (CC license) allows your publication to be used internationally under clear conditions. CC licenses have a modular structure. The basic license is CC BY; this only restricts the further use of your work to the extent that it provides for the mention of your name. If the “SA” module (Share Alike: CC BY-SA) is added, the further use of your work is only possible under the same license conditions, whereby commercial use by third parties is permitted, be it in the form of a translation, an excerpt or similar. The module “NC” (Non-Commercial) excludes commercial re-use, while the addition “ND” (“No Derivatives”) prohibits distribution of adaptations of the work. More detailed and up-to-date information on the license types can be found in the License Chooser.
Please note that some funding bodies set requirements for the choice of license. Our editorial staff will be happy to advise you on your decision.
Your open access publication will be made freely accessible in the Mohr Siebeck eLibrary and listed in the most important international open access repositories (OAPEN, JSTOR Open Access Books) as well as in important discovery services (e.g., Directory of Open Access Books, DOAB). On request, we can provide you with quarterly usage figures for the aforementioned repositories. The metadata of your publication is reported to over 450 of the world's leading academic libraries, including the British Library, the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, the Max Planck Digital Library and numerous university libraries in Germany, Europe and the United States.
You can also upload the PDF file of your work to institutional or subject-specific repositories yourself at any time. Your publication will be archived long-term with Portico and CLOCKSS, so that permanent availability is guaranteed.
A work that you previously published with us can also be transferred to open access. Please contact the relevant editor, who will be happy to provide you with an individual offer.
A list of all titles (books and journal articles) available in open access at Mohr Siebeck can be found here.
Subscribe to Open (S2O)
The following journals are published under a CC license in open access with an S2O subscription price.
Historical Interactions of Religious Cultures (HIReC)
Philosophy, Theology and the Sciences (PTSc)
Religion in the Roman Empire (RRE)
Rabels Zeitschrift für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht (RabelsZ)
Journal for Intellectual Property (ZGE)
The subscribe-to-open model (S2O) is fair and sustainable, being based on tried and tested structures and existing partnerships between the publisher and a journal’s institutional subscribers. The institutional subscriber base enables the transition to open access and thus free access for all readers by simply continuing the subscription as before. If the required threshold of institutional subscribers is not reached in a given year, the following volume will be published again behind the paywall in order to ensure the long-term economic stability of the journal. There is no article processing charge (APC) for contributors and publication in an S2O journal is free of charge. Users may read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, link or use the full texts of the articles for any lawful purpose in accordance with the CC license without first obtaining permission from the publisher or author. This is in line with the Budapest Open Access Initiative definition of open access.
Article processing charge (APC)
For many of our other journals, we offer to publish articles in open access in exchange for an article processing charge (APC). For details, please refer to the “Open Access” tab on the page of the respective journal.
Journals
Vienna University
Authors from the University of Vienna can publish open access in participating journals from our publishing house without additional publication fees as part of an open access agreement.
Term of the agreement
- The agreement applies to submissions made between 1 January 2026 and 31 December 2028.
Which contributions are eligible for funding
- Funding is available for articles in journals published by our publishing house that offer an open access option. The basic condition for funding is that your publication is accepted by the publisher.
Who is eligible for funding
- At least one author of the article must be affiliated with the University of Vienna at the time of submission or acceptance.
- This person must list ‘University of Vienna’ as at least one affiliation in the article.
Special regulations for FWF projects
For projects funded by the FWF, open access funding is provided by the University of Vienna. In addition, the following applies:
- Required licence: CC BY.
- All relevant publications must include the following notice upon submission:
„This research was funded in whole or in part by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) [grant DOI]. For open access purposes, the author has applied a CC BY public copyright license to any author accepted manuscript version arising from this submission.”
Costs and accounting
- No individual OA invoices are issued for articles eligible for funding; the open access costs are covered by a flat rate under the agreement between the University of Vienna and the publisher..
Procedure for authors
- We identify potentially eligible contributions based on the submission data.
- Eligible authors will be informed by us during the publication process about the possibility of publishing their article in open access at no additional cost.
- The final verification of affiliation with the University of Vienna is carried out by the Open Access Office of the University of Vienna.
Books
Max-Planck-Society / Max Planck Digital Library (MPDL)
The Max Planck Digital Library (MPDL) has a framework agreement to promote open access publications of books by Mohr Siebeck. This agreement applies to all publications accepted by the publisher until May 2027 and enables qualified authors and editors to publish their book in open access in addition to the printed edition.
Who is eligible for funding?
Authors and editors associated with an eligible Max Planck Institute are eligible for funding. Specifically, these are:
- All authors and volume/anthology editors who belong to an eligible Max Planck Institute.
- In the case of volume editors, at least one author from a Max Planck Institute must be involved as a co-author of a chapter (the editor themselves does not necessarily have to be an author).
Which works are eligible for funding?
The following types of publications are eligible for open access under the agreement:
- Monographs
- Edited anthologies
Textbooks, manuals, commentaries and commemorative publications, among others, are not eligible for funding.
The basic condition for funding is that your publication is accepted by the publisher.
Licence and right of use
The works are generally published under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence (CC BY), in the currently valid version. However, authors and editors are free to choose a different CC licence, provided that it is acceptable within the scope of our publishing practice and meets the open access requirements of the funding body.
Costs
Under the agreement, the Max Planck Digital Library will cover the additional costs of open access publication. However, the print grant will continue to be financed by the member institute of the eligible author/editor and/or by the author themselves. The publisher will not issue individual invoices to authors for the OA portion.
Publication process
Once your book manuscript has been accepted, we will check whether it is eligible for funding through the Max Planck Digital Library. If so, we will inform you during the publication process that an open access version of your work will be supported. The final decisions on licence selection and financing will then be made between you, your institute and the MPDL, in addition to our publishing process.
If you are a Max Planck author/editor planning to publish a monograph or edited volume with Mohr Siebeck, we would be happy to support you in implementing a print and open access publication under this agreement.
Vienna University
A framework agreement has been concluded with the University of Vienna to promote open access publications of books by Mohr Siebeck. This agreement applies to all publications accepted by December 2028 and enables qualified authors and editors to publish their book in open access in addition to the printed edition.
Who is eligible for funding?
Authors and editors associated with the University of Vienna are eligible for funding. Specifically, these are:
- All authors and editors of volumes/anthologies who belong to the University of Vienna.
- In the case of volume editors, at least one author from the University of Vienna must be involved as a co-author of a chapter (the editor themselves does not necessarily have to be an author).
Which works are eligible for funding?
The following types of publications can be published in open access under the agreement:
- Monographs
- Edited anthologies
Textbooks, manuals, commentaries and commemorative publications, among others, are not eligible for funding.
The basic condition for funding is that your publication is accepted by the publisher.
Licence and right of use
The works are generally published under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence (CC BY), in the currently valid version. However, authors and editors are free to choose a different CC licence, provided that it is acceptable within the scope of our publishing practice and meets the open access requirements of the funding body.
Cost regulation
Under the agreement, the University of Vienna will cover the additional costs for open access publication. The printing subsidy (‘print grant’), on the other hand, will continue to be financed by the respective institution, the project and/or the author themselves. The publisher will not issue individual invoices to authors for the OA portion.
Publication process
Once your book manuscript has been accepted, we will check whether funding is available from the University of Vienna as part of our procedure. If applicable, we will inform you during the further publication process that an open access version of your work will be supported. The final decisions on licence selection and financing will then be made between you, the University of Vienna and the Open Access Office, in addition to our publishing process.