Funding of Open Access Monographs and Open Access Contributions to Collective Editions

The following criteria must be met for funding:

• The author or the editor is a member of the University of Bamberg and is responsible for paying the publication fees.
• Only previously unpublished and original Open Access monographs ("Golden Route") that have undergone the usual quality assurance procedures in the respective discipline (peer review, academic editing) can be funded.
• Contributions in so-called hybrid edited volumes can't be funded: i.e. if the edited volume is not published Open Access, but individual contributions are published Open Access for a fee.
• The publication of theses and other works that have been produced within the framework of third party funded projects and for which publication funds are available cannot be funded.
• The publication must be provided with a free licence (preferably Creative Commons Attribution CC BY).
• The publisher should provide a transparent calculation demonstrating the share of Open Access costs and be listed in the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) or as a member of the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA).
• All funded publications must be permanently archived in the Research Information System (FIS) and made accessible online.
• Funding by the DFG or the Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg must be clearly indicated in the publication, for example:

"Funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - project number(s)" or "Funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) - project number(s)", respectively.
or
"We acknowledge support by the Open Access Publication Fund of the Otto-Friedrich-University Bamberg" or "We acknowledge support by the Open Access Publication Fund of the Otto-Friedrich-University Bamberg".

Funding per publication is limited:

• Contributions from collective works can be funded with a maximum of 2,000 €. A maximum of two contributions per collective work or the collective work as a whole will be funded.
• Monographs and collective works can be supported with a maximum of 4,000 €. Proportional funding is possible.
• Monographs and collective works resulting from DFG projects can be supported with a maximum of 5,000 €. Proportional funding is possible.

Not eligible for funding are:

• Printing costs or costs associated with printing, e.g. surcharges for colour, size, format, etc.