Siegen University Library: Funding Opportunities

Open Access Publishing Fund for articles in journals

The University of Siegen supports its scientists in publishing their research results in Open Access journals by providing an Open Access Publication Fund for the reimbursement of article processing charges to authors.

Until 2019, the Publication Fund of the University of Siegen was funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) as part of its "Open Access Publishing" funding programme. In the years 2020 – 2022 the Publication Fund has been supported by funds of the University Library. For 2023 – 2025 it was possible for the University Library to obtain funding from the DFG funding programme "Open Access Publication Funding".

Funding is only possible by comply with the funding conditions. The invoice must first be paid by own funds of the university institute, after that an reimbursement of the costs up to the amount of the funding can be requested.

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Open Access Publishing Fund for monographs

The University Library set up a fund for Open Access monographs and miscellanies for authors or editors of the University of Siegen. Authors and editors can be supported by a grant towards Open Access publication fees. Funding for fees on printed editions is not possible.

Within the scope of the DFG funding programme "Open Access Publication Funding" funding is only possible for publications, which were created in context of a DFG grant.

Funding is only possible by comply with the funding conditions. The invoice must first be paid by own funds of the university institute, after that an reimbursement of the costs up to the amount of the funding can be requested.

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Apply for a grant from the Open Access Publishing Funds

Check in advance whether the eligibility criteria for articles / monographs are met.
Commissioning and paying for OA publications is a procurement process („Vergabe“), and the specifications for the procurement process („Beschaffungsprozess“) must be complied with. You can find information on the Beschaffung-Serviceportal of the Department 1.3.
For the indication of affiliation, follow the requirements of the university's publication guidelines as well as the change order of the publication guidelines (in German, concerns only faculty I).
Upload the publication on the Open Access Repository OPUS Siegen in the collection "Geförderte Open-Access-Publikationen". You can find support here or by contacting the Team Publication Support - tpu@ub.uni-siegen.de -.
Please fill in the digital application-PDF for articles / monographs. An image upload of your own signature is considered equivalent to the wet ink signature).
Send the application form and the paid invoice for (Open Access) publication fees by e-mail to: oa@ub.uni-siegen.de

Required information on invoices for publication fees:

Recipient of invoice: "submitting / corresponding author" at his office at university

Invoicing party (= publisher)

Invoice item (= article/monograph)

Publication medium

Date of invoice

Invoice or order number

For invoices from abroad (EU countries and third countries): Net invoice stating the VAT identification number of the University of Siegen (tax ID number: DE 154854171) and the tax ID number of the publishing house.

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List of funded publications

Publications funded by UB Siegen through the Open Access Publication Funds are publicly available on the repository OPUS Siegen. An overview of the funded publications can be found here.

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Discount on publication fees

The University of Siegen takes part in different consortia and programmes, and can thus offer discounts on article processing charges of different publishers. These discounts range from reduced APCs to the publication of a certain number of articles without costs. The following not exhaustive table provides an overview of the discounts.

For further information feel free to contact the Open-Access-Team via oa@ub.uni-siegen.de.

publisher / consortium	Time span	Discounts for authors
AIP Publishing	2021 – 2023	Central absorption of costs of the APCs in specific hybrid journals (limited number of articles), beyound that discounted APCs of 2.800 $
Cambridge University Press	2022 – 2024	Central absorption of costs of the APCs in hybrid journals and Gold Open Access journals, no embargo period for Open Access publications of the preprint via green Open Access (second publication) on personal websites, for secondary publications of the accepted manuscript on repositories embargo periods up to 6 months depending on the subject
DeGruyter	2023 - 2024	Central absorption of costs of the APCs in 111 hybrid journals of the Humanities and Social Sciences, elimination of embargo periods for OA publications via the Green Path (second publication) for 55 journals. 20% discount on APCs of Gold Open Access journals.
Hogrefe	2021 – 2023	Central absorption of costs of the APCs in the Gold Open Access journals of Psyjournals, 25% discount on APCs on 3 further journals
IOP Publishing	2022 – 2024	Central absorption of costs of the APCs in 56 hybrid journals and 16 Gold Open Access journals
Optica	2023 - 2024	Central absorption of costs of the APCs in 4 hybrid journals and 5 Gold Open Access journals
RSC	2021 – 2023	Central absorption of costs of the APCs in hybrid journals, 15 % discount on APCs of Gold Open Access journals
SAGE	2021 – 2023	Central absorption of costs of the APCs in hybrid journals, 20 % discount on APCs of Gold Open Access journals, embargo period of one year for Open Access publications via green Open Access (second publication)
Science (AAAS)	2023	15 % discount on APCs of Gold Open Access journal “Science Advances”
SCOAP³-DH	2023 - 2024	Central absorption of costs of the APCs in specific hybrid journals in the subject of physics (see below)
Springer (DEAL)	2023	Central absorption of costs of the APCs in hybrid journals, 20% discount on APCs of specified Gold Open Access journals
Wiley (DEAL)	2023	Central absorption of costs of the APCs in hybrid journals, 20 % discount on APCs of Gold Open Access journals

DEAL

With the participation in the project DEAL , authors at the University of Siegen are able to publish articles in the hybrid journals of the publishers Springer Nature and Wiley in open access. In addition, there are discounts on the fees for publishing articles in pure Open Access journals.

Please contact the Open Access team at oa@ub.uni-siegen.de.

Information can also be found on the MDPL pages on DEAL operations.

SCOAP³-DH

The University of Siegen is a member of the „Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics – Deutsche Hochschulen”: Scoap³-DH. Therefore, within the period of 2023 - 2024, members of the University of Siegen in the field of high energy physics have the opportunity to publish their research results free of charge in the following open access journals of the consortium:

Journal	Publisher
Acta Physica Polonica B (APPB)	Jagiellonian University
Advances in High Energy Physics (AHEP)	Hindawi
The European Physical Journal C (EPJC) The Journal of High Energy Physics (JHEP)	Springer
Nuclear Physics B (NPB) Physics Letters B (PLB)	Elsevier
Physical Review C (PRC) Physical Review D (PRD) Physical Review Letters (PRL)	APS Physics
Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics (PTEP)	Oxford Academic

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Funding conditions of research funders

DFG

The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) requests to publish the research results of funded projects open access. Funds for publication fees up to the amount of EUR 750, - per year can be applied for within the general application process. Within a more flexible funding, the funds for publication fees can be increased by funds for staff or equipment. Funding for publication fees only is not possible. Further information can be found on the web pages of the DFG.

ERC - Horizon Europe

For funded projects, the European Research Council (ERC) requires the publication of the results in scientific publications with peer review in open access. In this context, publication of the published version via a repository is mandatory at the latest at the time of publication. Publications must be available in open access from the time of publication, regardless of the publication channel. For Gold Open Access publications in journals, books or on platforms, costs such as APCs, BPCs, but also other publication costs such as color charges or page charges are eligible for funding if these costs are incurred within the project period and conform to the other funding conditions of the program. Costs for articles in hybrid journals or for books of which only individual chapters are published in open access are not eligible for funding.