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Funding of Articles in Open Access Journals

The university management encourages the university's scientists and scholars to publish in Open Access journals and also to promote Open Access journals as reviewers, editors and publishers.

The University Library of Bamberg supports the transformation of scholarly publishing to Open Access. The aim is to make scientific research results freely available worldwide.

Recommendation of the University Library: Please choose the Creative Commons licence CC BY, which has become internationally accepted for open access journal articles and is required by many research funders

Assumption of open access publication fees

Please note:

Funding via the Open Access Publication Fund is only secured for the 2024 budget year. The possibilities for support from 2025 onwards are still being worked on and will be announced at a later date.

 

Members of the University of Bamberg can publish open access in numerous journals free of charge: An open access publication fund is available to finance publication fees. In addition, the University Library has concluded agreements with various publishers that enable publication fees to be paid centrally. Here you can find an overview of the financing options with various publishers:

Cambridge University Press

Members of the University of Bamberg can use the Open Access option ("Cambridge Open") free of charge in many subscription journals of Cambridge University Press.

Requirements:

  • The corresponding author is a member of the University of Bamberg.
  • The journal is included in this list.

Please proceed as follows:

  • After your article has been accepted, you will receive an OA publication licence form. Please confirm here that you would like to publish Open Access.
  • You will then receive an e-mail with a link to pay the publication fee ("Article-processing charge. APC"). After calling up the link, select the Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg as the institution under "Affiliation discount". Then the publication fee will be waived.

Further information:

Elsevier

The read-and-publish contract with Elsevier as part of the DEAL project includes reading and access rights for the journals published by Elsevier and free open access publishing both in the pure open access journals and in the subscription journals. The costs are paid by the University Library.

> After your article has been accepted, you will receive an e-mail to complete your details for the publication process. Under "Complete the rights and access form", please enter the Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg as the associated institution and select the option "Publish as an Open Access article" in the following steps. We also recommend that you select the CC BY license (more information on Creative Commons licenses here). The publication fees are automatically paid by the University Library.

Please note that a few magazines are excluded from this agreement.

Further information and an overview of the journals included can be found at: https://www.elsevier.com/open-access/agreements/projekt-deal

Hogrefe

As "corresponding author" you will receive information about your options for the open access publication model ("Hogrefe OpenMind") after your article was accepted. Please choose the CC-BY 4.0 licence (attribution).

  • For publication in purely Open Access journals, members of the University of Bamberg receive a 25% discount on the Article Processing Charges. Please select the option "Consortia that have signed a transformative agreement with Hogrefe" on the publisher's Open Access form. The University Library checks whether the corresponding author is a member of the University of Bamberg and informs them whether the publication fees can be covered by the university's Open Access Fund.
  • In in all transformative journals of the PsyJOURNALS portfolio (for title list see link below), members of the University of Bamberg can publish Open Access free of charge. The University Library verifies that the corresponding author belongs to the University of Bamberg.

Further information:

Sage

  • For publication in purely Open Access journals, members of the University of Bamberg receive a 20% discount on the Article Processing Charges. The University Library checks whether the corresponding author is a member of the University of Bamberg and informs them whether the publication fees can be covered by the university's Open Access Fund.
  • In numerous hybrid journals (complete list), members of the University of Bamberg can publish Open Access free of charge. The University Library verifies that the corresponding author belongs to the University of Bamberg. They are then contacted by the publisher and decides whether the article should be published in Open Access.

Springer Nature (incl. Biomed Central, J.B. Metzler, Palgrave Macmillan)

The read-and-publish contract within the framework of the DEAL project with Springer Nature includes reading and access rights for the journals published by Springer Nature and free open access publishing in both the purely open access journals and the subscription journals. The costs for this are covered by the university library.

  •  When submitting publications in purely OA journals, please state Otto-Friedrich-University Bamberg as the institution on the form. Your article will then be published Open Access and the publication fees will automatically be paid by the University Library.
  • For publications in subscription journals, please indicate Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg as affiliation during the author identification process (this step takes place as soon as your article has been accepted for publication). Your article will then be published free of charge in open access.

Please note that individual journals are excluded from this agreement.

You can find more information and an overview of the included journals at https://www.springernature.com/gp/open-research/oa-agreements/germany

Wiley

The read-and-publish contract within the framework of the DEAL project with Wiley includes reading and access rights for the journals published by Wiley and free open access publishing in both the pure open access journals and the subscription journals. The costs for this are covered by the university library.

Further information:

Other Publishers: Open Access Fund

If your article appears in a journal that does not belong to any of the above-mentioned publishers, publication fees can be paid from the university's Open Access Publication Fund for Articles.

The following criteria must be met for this:

  • The articles to be published appear in journals whose contributions are all accessible to users free of charge via the Internet immediately upon publication ("genuine Open Access journals") and which apply strict quality assurance procedures that are recognised in the respective subject. Funding of Open Access articles in subscription journals ("hybrid journals") is not possible.
  • The publication fees (APC) do not exceed a maximum of €2,000 gross per article. Proportional funding is not possible for higher publication fees.
  •  A scientist of the Otto-Friedrich-University is responsible for the payment of the publication fees as "submitting author" or "corresponding author".
  • All funded articles must be permanently archived in the Research Information System (FIS)and made accessible online.

All university members can apply for funding from the Open Access Fund using the form below. If the criteria are met, the invoice will be paid by the university library.

Open access publication fees

I herewith apply to the Otto Friedrich University for assistance with open access publication fees.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact the University Library (contact persons). The University of Bamberg participates in the Open-APC-Initiative of the DINI work group "Electronic Publishing".