The DFG offers incentives for the publication of research results in open access journals
Within the scope of a new promotional program, the DFG supports the publication of research results in open access journals. In open access journals, publications are instantly available once they are released. Quite often, funding is provided by processing fees the author has got to pay.
The aim of the program is to support university-level institutions in establishing permanent and reliable structures to finance open access publications.
After the DFG has provided subsidies for financing open access publications in 2010, the university's current application for support has been approved by the DFG. The UDE will receive € 38.709 from the DFG within the support programm "Open Access Publishing". The university has committed to allocate further € 12.903 from its own funds for open access publications.
The DFG have linked the application of funds to the following conditions:
A member of the Duisburg-Essen University is the submitting author or the corresponding author of an article and, therefore, responsible for the payment of its processing fees.
The articles have got to be published in journals whose contents are instantly available online and free of charge once they are published ("genuine open access journals" that are recorded in the Directory of Open Access Journals) and which apply acknowledged methods of quality assurance.
The processing fees must not exceed € 2.000 per article.
The DFG’s funds must not be used to unlock articles form journals liable to subscription for the open access.
Publications that are financed by means from the promotional programme should contain a special note within the acknowledgements.
If the above-mentioned conditions are met, it is possible to have an article’s procession fees paid by the DFG’s means upon application.
In this case, please let the university library know by e-mail (openaccess@ub.uni-due.de) as soon as an open access journal has accepted an article to be published, and please name the emerging expenses.
Please pass the invoice for the processing fees on to the university library (Campus Duisburg, LK library, department media processing) in order to authorize payment.
The university is bound to issue a project report, in which the DFG expects statements regarding the quantity of publications released in open access journals. So, apart from the publications that are liable to processing fees, please also notify to the university library all further open access publications.
Please do not hesitate to contact the university library under openaccess@ub.uni-due.de, if you have any further queries.
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