Open Access Publication Funding / 2025 - 2027 / Osnabrück University

• Applicant: Anna Dönecke, since 12/2024
• Term: since 2022
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 491052604

Osnabrück University is pursuing the following goals with its application to the DFG funding programme "Open Access Publication Funding": Firstly, it would like to secure sustainable funding for the open access publications of its researchers in order to increase the visibility of the scientific achievements of researchers and the university in line with the OA policy adopted in 2017. Secondly, it would like to create cost transparency for the funds used to finance publications in order to summarise these in an information budget with the costs for information resources and thus be able to better control the effective use of funds. The cost monitoring successfully introduced at Osnabrück University during the project term of the initial approval 2022 / 2023 and the first renewal application 2024 in the "Open Access Publication Funding" programme led to a complete overview of the funding streams for publications. It became apparent that the majority of publication and information resources are already managed and financed centrally by the library in a real information budget. In order to fully implement the university management's mandate to establish a transparent information budget, the university library will implement a work programme in the 2025 - 2027 continuation proposal that integrates further inflows into the information budget (in particular decentralised publication funds) on the one hand and considers and includes other cost types (BPCs, hybrid APCs, other publication costs) as outflows on the other. These measures will entail adjustments to the budget allocation model and workflows, which will be coordinated and implemented in close cooperation with all organisational units and university committees involved. The development of a supporting tool for recording costs will ultimately reduce the work involved in monitoring and reporting publication costs and provide optimum support for publication funding workflows.

• DFG Programme: Science Communication, Research Data, eResearch (Scientific Library Services and Information Systems)
• Ehemalige Antragstellerin: Sabine Boccalini, until 12/2024