Open Access Publication Fees / 2022 - 2024 / Forschungszentrum Jülich (OAPKFZJ)

• Applicant: Dr. Bernhard Mittermaier
• Term: since 2021
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 491111487

The project builds on extensive preliminary work by Forschungszentrum Jülich and in particular its Central Library in the context of open access (OA) publishing, e.g.• Operation of an OA publishing house with approx. 100 OA monographs per year• Publication of two diamond open access journals• Operation of the full-text repository JuSER within the framework of the join² collaboration• Conclusion of contracts with publishers for open access publishing, often as consortium leader of the Helmholtz Association• Negotiation of a DFG-funded transformation contract with Thieme Medical Publishers (together with ZB MED)• Membership of ORCID • Establishment and operation of an open access publication fund • Annual publication of an open access barometer • Development and operation of the open access monitor for GermanyThe project addresses the following goals:1. Support the shift to publication-based funding models2. Improving the administrative, organizational, and technical conditions in the area of recording, processing, and paying for open access publications3. Creating the conditions for targeted DFG funding of publications resulting from DFG funding.4. Ensure open access availability of all publications resulting from DFG funding.The following work packages are planned in detail:1. Further development of governance by updating the existing open access strategy of Forschungszentrum Jülich.2. Further development of the open access strategy leading to an open science strategy, which will consider data, research software, and transfer in addition to text publications.3. Creation of the prerequisites for the complete recording of “other publication fees” (colour charge, page charge, etc.) as well as hybrid OA fees4. Intensification of advice on open access for monographs including paying book processing charges5. Implementation of various measures to further promote ORCID among scientists at Forschungszentrum Jülich.6. Reduce transaction costs for open access publications by participating in standardization initiatives, licensing a cross-publisher dashboard, and continuing to conclude contracts for memberships, deposits, etc.7. Exploration of possibilities for automated data extraction of DFG grants from GEPRIS and, if necessary, development and implementation of a universally reusable function for importing research funding data into FIS systems.8. Development and implementation of a communication strategy that ensures that the organizational and technical adjustments are actually put into practice. This includes the adaptation of the Central Library’s advisory concept on open access publishing.

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