Open Access Publication Funding / 2025 - 2027 / Philipps-Universität Marburg

• Applicant: Dr. Andrea Wolff-Wölk
• Term: since 2021
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 491052028

As an open-minded university with social responsibility, Philipps-Universität Marburg supports the open access transformation and encourages its members to publish in quality-assured open access publication organs. The central player in the transformation process is the university library, which is committed to openness in science and education and develops the university's open access services in cooperation with the presidential board, the university bodies and departments. All open access services are provided by the university library, which also manages the university’s open access budget. In the first funding period of the DFG-programme "Open Access Publication Funding"(2022-2024), new funding options were successfully established and the number of open access publications increased significantly. By setting up a central publication and cost monitoring system at the university library, the university by now has a comprehensive overview of central and decentralised open access publication data (numbers, costs, funding). Also the basic structures of an integrated information budget have been established successfully. The instruments and processes introduced for publication counselling and support are to be continued and expanded in the second funding period. In order to record the number and costs of open access publications more efficiently, the interfaces between the library management system and the financial accounting and research information systems are to be examined and improved. Other focal points are the management of the transformative process within the university, the subject-specific addressing of open access needs of university members, the support of scholar-led open access infrastructures and the expansion of the information budget. At the end of the second funding period, Marburg University will have a good overview of the various financial flows (central and decentralised, expenditure and income) in order to prepare for the necessary structural adjustments and sustainable open access funding. Due to the strategic relevance and intra-university scope of the topic, the project is accompanied by a working group on structural development, which is made up of representatives from the research department, the budget department, the strategic controlling unit and the university library and is coordinated by the university library.

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