Open Access Publication Funding / 2025-2027 / Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU)

• Applicant: Konstanze Söllner
• Subject Area: Data Management, Data-Intensive Systems, Computer Science Methods in Business Informatics
• Term: since 2021
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 491025671

Open Science is the cutting-edge strategy for science communication at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU): FAU was the first university in Germany to implement a comprehensive Open Science Policy as a successor to the previous Open Access Policy. With services such as the long-standing FAU publication fund and two DFG project funds (for Open Access articles and books) as well as 20 transformation contracts and Open Access memberships, it has extensive experience in the central administration and financing of Open Access publications. This DFG application is intended to supplement and optimise the following aspects: (1) Establishing further simple and centralised funding options for additional publication and business models such as Diamond Open Access, “Open Data” research data publications or “OER” video publications. (2) Utilisation of the current Bavaria-wide introduction of the so-called condensed title structure in favour of central administration and transformation of literature resources. (3) Connecting local infrastructures such as CRIS FAU and OPEN FAU and expanding the existing infrastructure landscape for publication and cost management, e.g. through the FOLIO system (currently being planned and introduced in the Bavaria Library Network) and the Open Access and billing app there, (4) towards a virtual information budget that is also technically supported in the best possible way. Given the already existing insights into various areas (including professorial appointment funds, third-party funds such as SFB and GRK applications, transfer of decentralised literary ressources to the University Library, monitoring of publication cost types, "keywords" and intended uses for bank postings, management of funds and transformation contracts through largely centralised financing, cost distribution models to the faculties, etc.), FAU will thus largely fulfil the requirements of the virtual information budget in the project.

• DFG Programme: Science Communication, Research Data, eResearch (Scientific Library Services and Information Systems)