All contributions published in Zeitschrift für Kristallographie can be accessed by users of leading public and institutional libraries as print- or online-version or both, depending on what access the library has purchased. The subscription price covers the costs of production, quality management, server provisions and distribution.

This means for every contribution published in Zeitschrift für Kristallographie:

• quality peer review with proposals for amendments
• processing by the editorial office of the publisher
• professional processing of the layout
• processing of meta data – authors, titles, subtitles, abstracts – which are freely accessible for everybody and by which search engines (as google) trace and find an article
• presence on the website of the publisher together with additional information
• equipment with DOI and registration with CrossRef
• Registered with CCC
• Indexed in CAS
• Covered by Science Citation Index, SciSearch, Research Alert, Chemistry Citation Index, Materials Science Citation Index, Reaction Citation Index and Current Contents/Physical, Chemical and Earth Sciences
• possibility to buy the article online
• ToC-Alert

Subscribers of the print version

• receive a thoroughly printed high quality paper copy

Subscribers of the online version can

• read online and download the contribution
• search over the full text
• read the contribution before it is published in print

If you wish, you can also make the full text of your contribution available to everybody who has not subscribed to the journal via open access. For this service we charge a fee of € 680. Precondition, however, is that the contribution has passed the peer-reviewing.

Open Access provides the surplus features as:

• free access for everybody to the full-text via internet
• the right that you can place the final version of the contribution on your private, institutional or company website
• availability of your work for every researcher who became aware of your contribution via internet search engines