Funding Opportunities
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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. Since the end of DFG funding, the Publication Fund has been supported by funds of the University Library. Thus financial aids from this Publication Fund are still guaranteed, provided the request complies with the funding conditions.
- Requests for funding can be applied for by using the PDF-form, provided they comply with the funding conditions.
- Funds are granted on first-come-first-serve basis, as long as financial means are available.
- Please note that the invoice has to be pre-financed by own funds of the university institute first.
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– until further notice as a test (trial). Authors and editors can be supported by a grant towards Open Access publication fees. Funding for fees on printed editions is not possible.
- Requests for funding can be applied for by using the PDF-form, provided they comply with the funding conditions.
- Funds are granted on first-come-first-serve basis, as long as financial means are available.
- Please note that the invoice has to be pre-financed by own funds of the university institute first.
Apply for a grant from the Open Access Publishing Funds
Check in advance whether the eligibility criteria are met.
Fill in the digital application-PDF (in German, 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 -or by in-house mail to:
Universitätsbibliothek Siegen
Open-Access-Team</or>
57068 Siegen
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.
List of funded publications
Discount on publication fees
The University of Siegen takes part in different consortia and programmes, and can thus offer discounts on article processing fees of different publishers – special conditions for publishing open access are, for example, included in the licensing agreements for e-journal packages available via alliances and Nationallizenzen in which the University of Siegen participates. 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 phone: 0271/740-5475 or 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 | 2019 – 2021 | Central absorption of costs of the APCs in hybrid journals |
DeGruyter | 2021 – 2021 | Gold Open Access Journals in the fields of „Linguistic, Literature and Humanities, abolition of the embargo period for Open Access publications via green Open Access (second publication) |
Hogrefe | 2021 – 2023 | Central absorption of costs of the APCs in the Gold Open Access Journals of Psyjournals |
IOP Publishing | 2019 – 2021 | Central absorption of costs of the APCs in hybrid journals (limited number of articles) |
RSC | 2021 – 2023 | Central absorption of costs of the APCs in hybrid 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) | 2020 – 2022 | 15% discount on APCs of Gold Open Access Journal |
SCOAP³-DH | 2020 – 2022 | Central absorption of costs of the APCs in specific hybrid journals in the subject of physics |
Springer (DEAL) | 2020 – 2022 | Central absorption of costs of the APCs in hybrid journals, 20% discount on APCs of specified Gold Open Access Journals |
Wiley (DEAL) | 07.2019 – 12.2021 | 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 Tel.: 0271/740-5475
or 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 2020 – 2022, 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 |
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.
BMBF – Post-Grant-Fund
The Federal Ministry of Education and Research (German: Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung, BMBF) offers grants for publications of concluded projects via the program „Förderung von Open Access-Publikationen aus abgeschlossenen BMBF-geförderten Projekten (Post-Grant-Fund)“. If there are no other grants for publications and the project was funded within the last three years, publication fees up to an amount of max. EUR 2.400, - can be funded.
ERC - Horizon 2020
The European Research Council (ERC) requires the publication of the results of funded project to be open access. Funding for publication fees of Gold Open Access articles is possible, if they incur within the lifetime of the project and conform to the general conditions applied to other direct costs
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