Open Access Publication Fund

Eligibility Conditions

• Applicant must be a member of the University of Erfurt at the time of application
• Applicant is responsible for the publication as "corresponding author"
• the publication must have gone through a peer review process
• the application is submitted in the year when the payment is due
• publication must take place in the same year you apply for a grant
• the publication should be published under the Creative Commons Attribution License. The DFG recommends in particular the Creative Commons licenses CC-BYCC-BY-SAor CC-BY-ND

The Open Access Publication Fund does not cover

• Publications without scientific content or
• Publications in so-called "mirror journals" or
• Publications in "predatory journals"
• Publications in hybrid journals
• Incidental costs such as color charges, page charges, submission fees, license fees, archive fees and other administrative fees
• Subsidies for closed access publications or printing costs

further information

• please use your university e-mail account for communication with publishers
• for uploading your articles please use the university network if possible (also eduVPN)
• please indicate your institutional affiliation at the University of Erfurt correctly, so that the assignment to the institution in the submission process and bibliometric analyses and entries in databases (e.g. Web of Science) can be done correctly. Please note the correct spelling based on the ROR-ID

Overview of funded publications

A list of publications supported by the Open Access Publication Fund of the University of Erfurt can be found on our overview page

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