Open Access Publication Funding | Heidelberg University | 2022 - 2024

• Applicant: Dr. Jochen Apel, since 1/2024
• Term: since 2021
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 491044115

The aim of the project is to expand Heidelberg University‘s Open Access infrastructure with regard to the financing of Open Access publications that are subject to publication charges. To this end, the following services will be established or expanded: a) Open Access publishing fund for publications in pure Open Access journals, b) Financing of Open Access within the framework of so-called transformative agreements and establishment of a university-internal financing architecture for large-scale contracts of this type, c) Open Access publishing fund for monographs from DFG-funded projects. The specific form of the services pursues the following strategic goals: further increase of the share of Open Access publications, creation of a sustainable institutional financing framework for these publications, implementation of controlling instruments that can have a structure- and price-forming effects on the market, and creation of more comprehensive cost and expenditure information for the university as a whole, including the medical faculties.

• DFG Programme: Science Communication, Research Data, eResearch (Scientific Library Services and Information Systems)
• Ehemaliger Antragsteller: Dr. Veit Probst, until 1/2024