Funding Opportunities

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
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

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.

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.

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:

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.