Open Access Publication Funding / 2025-2027 / University of Konstanz

• Applicant: Oliver Kohl-Frey
• Term: since 2021
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 491246781

The University of Konstanz is one of the leading universities in the field of Open Access in Germany. With around 11,000 students and approx. 1,300 academic staff, the University of Konstanz is the smallest German university of excellence. In November 2021, it was one of the first universities in Germany to adopt an Open Science Policy, thereby expanding its commitment to and involvement in open science. In doing so, the University of Konstanz is pursuing the goal of further consolidating, adapting and expanding the structures that have been created and established to date via the publication fund and with the help of the DFG funding programs "Open Access Publishing" and "Open Access Publication Funding". The aim is to continue to provide a range of services and advice that meet the diverse needs of researchers at the University of Konstanz. Moreover, the controlling and shaping options are to be optimized in terms of restructuring the financial flows within the university. The intent is to be able to provide the university's academics with a reliable and permanent service in the area of open access publishing. This service includes the financing of publication fees for Open Access journal articles and books with the resources of the university publication fund, into which the DFG funding flows. In connection with this, the KIM Open Science team offers experienced and competent consultations to the university's researchers on all questions relating to Open Access publishing. This also includes the development and expansion of the university's own publication platform PubliKon, which will go live in 2024. The university publication fund creates the conditions to register the monetary resources for academic publishing in a virtual integrated information budget. To this end intra-institutional progress has been made during the current funding period. At the end of the current funding phase, all open access publication invoices will be recorded centrally in KIM. This will achieve the goal of consolidating the data from various systems in the controlling data portal and to aggregate it with regard to a wide variety of issues. This creates the basis for the further development of the virtual information budget at the University of Konstanz. Another goal based on this process, in addition to consultations and support from the publication fund, is to pursue strategic directions through the promotion of academia-led publishing.

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