As an author, you can publish your research results in Open Access via the golden or hybrid path. In the first case, your contribution is published in a purely OA medium, e.g. in an OA journal. In the second case, the publication takes place in a medium that is financed via the closed-access model. However, your contribution is unlocked via a separate OA licence.
For golden or hybrid publishing, publishers usually charge publication fees that you as the author have to pay ("article processing charges", APCs).
To help you to finance your publication, Trier UAS has set up a publication fund from which you can be reimbursed for a part of your APCs. This is possible, among other things, for APCs incurred for the publication of articles in selected journals of the publishers Springer Nature and Wiley (DEAL).
Alternatively or in addition to the support from the Trier UAS fund, you have the possibility to apply for funding from institutions such as the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation).
Note: In addition to the golden or hybrid path, the green path to publication in Open Access is often open to you as well (secondary publication on a document server or homepage under OA licence). Usually, you do not have to pay any OA publication fees. You can find publishing policies under Sherpa Romeo.
The Trier University of Applied Sciences strives to support its publishers in publishing research results in open access. To this end, since 2021 it has provided a fund from which authors of OA publications can, if necessary, have part of their publication charges reimbursed.
The publication fund is currently financed exclusively from research funding and has a budget of 20,000 EUR.
The funding is currently up to 700 EUR per scientific article, subject to available funds. Please note that this amount often does not cover the full publication charges. As funding is limited and depends on third-party funds to be acquired, no guarantee of reimbursement can be given.
For information:
Unfortunately, funding cannot be guaranteed. Even if all eligibility criteria are met, it is only possible if there are corresponding resources in the fund.
The number of OA publications by members of Trier University of Applied Sciences is currently low. For the time being, funds are allocated on a "first come - first serve" basis.
If you publish in journals of the publishers Springer Nature or Wiley & Sons in Open Access, your publications are usually covered by the DEAL agreements to which Trier University of Applied Sciences is a party.
For you as an author, this means, among other things:
Detailed information on DEAL can be found at:
Every member of Trier University of Applied Sciences is eligible to apply. The publication fund is primarily intended for publishers without alternative possibilities of funding or support. Students are expressly included.
Members of the university include:
General:
Due to the limited funds available, applications can currently only be submitted for journal articles. The exact funding criteria are listed in the next tab. For Open Access book publications, the publication grant of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft DFG (German Research Foundation) can be used, if applicable.
DEAL:
The following journal articles can be published in OA in Springer or Wiley journals under the DEAL agreements:
General: Please note!
Due to the limited resources available, the fund is primarily intended for publishers without alternative funding and financing options.
Funding criteria for journal articles:
In order for you to receive funding from the university's publication fund as the author of an OA journal article, the following criteria must be met:
Due to the limited funds available, the publication fund is primarily intended for publishers who have no alternative funding or financing options available to them.
Our request: In your project proposals or projects, please check whether the costs for OA publications can be fully covered by other funding.
Background:
Trier UAS participates in the DEAL agreements with Springer Nature. This allows you, among other things, to publish articles in pure Open Access journals with Springer Nature. A 20 percent discount is granted on the APC list prices incurred (APC = "article processing charge"). The APCs are first billed to the university and then charged back to you. You may be reimbursed for part of the cost through the publication fund.
Key data of the journals available for selection:
Note: Nature journals whose title contains the term "Nature" ("Nature branded journals"), magazines, e.g. Scientific American, Spektrum der Wissenschaft, and technical journals such as ATZ or MTZ are not covered by the DEAL agreement.
Procedures:
Assistance from MPDL Services GmbH:
As a corresponding author, fully and consistently identify Trier UAS as your DEAL institution during the submission and publication process. This information should also correspond to the manuscript and the publication itself.
If you are affiliated with more than one institution, Trier UAS should only be mentioned first if the scientific achievement on which the article is based originated mainly at it.
Use only your institutional e-mail address.
If you are unsure whether your employment entitles you to OA publishing under DEAL (e.g., as an emeritus professor), please check with your university library.
Publisher information:
Background:
Trier UAS participates in the DEAL agreements with Springer Nature. This allows you, among other things, to publish articles in hybrid journals in OA at Springer Nature. (Note: You can still publish your article there in classic closed access - the so-called "opt-out", including a transfer of usage rights to the publisher).
If you choose this method, you will not be invoiced directly by Springer for the publication fees. After your publication appears, the library will receive an invoice which will be forwarded to you. After you have paid the invoice, you can apply for partial reimbursement from the publication fund.
Key data of the journals available for selection:
Note: Not covered by the DEAL agreement are Nature journals whose title contains the term "Nature" ("Nature branded journals"), magazines, e.g. Scientific American, Spektrum der Wissenschaft, and technical journals such as ATZ or MTZ.
Procedures:
Assistance from MPDL Services GmbH:
Publisher information:
Background:
Trier UAS participates in the DEAL agreements with Wiley & Sons. This allows you, among other things, to publish articles in pure OA journals at Wiley. A 20 percent discount is granted on the APC list prices incurred (APC = "article processing charge"). The APCs are first billed to the university and then charged back to you. You may be reimbursed for part of the costs through the publication fund.
Key data of the journals available for selection:
Procedure:
Assistance from MPDL Services GmbH:
As a corresponding author, fully and consistently identify Trier UAS as your DEAL institution during the submission and publication process. This information should also correspond to the manuscript and the publication itself.
If you are affiliated with more than one institution, Trier UAS should only be mentioned first if the scientific achievement on which the article is based originated mainly at it.
Use only your institutional e-mail address.
If you are unsure whether your employment entitles you to open access publishing under DEAL (e.g., as an emeritus professor), please check with your university library.
Publisher information:
Background:
Trier UAS participates in the DEAL agreements with Wiley & Sons. This allows you, among other things, to publish articles in hybrid journals in OA at Wiley. (Note: You can still publish your article there in classic closed access - the so-called "opt-out", including a transfer of usage rights to the publisher).
If you choose this method, you will not be invoiced directly by Wiley for the publication fees. After your publication appears, the library will receive an invoice which will be forwarded to you. After you have paid the invoice, you can apply for partial reimbursement from the publication fund.
Key data of the journals available for selection:
Procedure:
Assistance from MPDL Services GmbH:
Publisher information:
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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