If you publish an Open Access article - for example with the DEAL publishers Elsevier, Springer Nature or Wiley - publication fees (APCs) or similar costs are often incurred.
The Trier UAS publication fund is currently exhausted. Funding is not possible until further notice.
Please note the following cases:
Tip: Before submitting, clarify how the publication costs can be financed. The German Research Foundation (DFG), for example, offers funding opportunities.
Link:DEAL journal lists ("Which journals are included?")
The European Commission supports the Open Access publication of results from EU-funded projects with an Open Access publishing platform: Open Research Europe (ORE). The platform allows authors of publications resulting from EU-funded projects to apply for the payment of publication fees of 780 EUR per article.
More detailed information can be found on the ORE website:
In September 2016, the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) presented an Open Access strategy to improve the framework conditions for OA in Germany. Among other things, authors are encouraged to publish contributions that are produced within BMBF-funded projects in OA.
Funding for publication fees can be applied for as part of the project funding.
The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft DFG (German Research Foundation) is a co-signatory of the "Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities" and supports efforts to make research freely available via the Internet. Among other things, the DFG provides publication funds of 750 EUR per year in individual funding. Authors can apply for these funds for Open Access publications that were produced within DFG-funded projects.
Information on individual funding can be found here:
In addition to funding publications resulting from DFG projects, the DFG has established a publication grant for foundational works and works of "particular scientific importance":
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