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Within the peer review process of open access publishing, costs arise as well as in traditional journals. In open access publishing this cost must usually be covered by the authors.

The Chemnitz University of Technology encourage open access publishing of their scientists. To cover publication costs, funding was raised in the amount of 31.160 Euro in 2018. Members of the university are able to apply for funding but please investigate other opportunities (e.g. EU-projects, SFB ...) before.

In order to provide the publishing fund sustainably, the following business model will be used.

After that the university's proportion of publishing fund is calculated by 3 parts:

• one part central funds of the university
• one part funds of the University Library
• small author investment in high of 10% of the publication fee until the second publication of the faculty

Each first published article of a faculty will continue to be fully funded.
So the author fee will be calculated from the 2. eligible article.
The decision on subsidy depend on the order of invoice receipts.
An overview of previously funded article can you find under "Financing".

Eligibility conditions

• You are a member of the TU Chemnitz and "submitting or corresponding author" who is responsible for the payment of the publication fee.
• The paper was not published as a part of third party funded project with own publishing budget.
• The article is published in a purely open access journal with peer review process. The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) references such journals. Further information about quality of open access journals and publishers you will find in our Wiki.
• The publication cost shall be no higher than 2000 Euro per article. This amount includes all costs incl. VAT! Neither publication costs higher than 2.000 Euro. Also a proportional funding is not possible in this case.
• Open access options in otherwise subscription-based journals with hybrid model, like „Open Choice“ from Springer Online, cannot be funded.
• Every funded publication should certain the hint: "The publication costs of this article were funded by the German Research Foundation/DFG and the Chemnitz University of Technology in the funding programme Open Access Publishing"
• All funded articles will be provided open access on MONARCH-Qucosa, the repository of the Chemnitz University of Technology.
• Please consider the invoice notes for publication abroad.

Workflow

• Submit the application for the open access publishing funding to the university libray which make or break the funding.
• Submit the article to the journal.
• Submit the original invoice to the university library/ Open Access Team. Please consider the invoice notes for publication abroad (German only).
• Second publication of the articles on MONARCH-Qucosa, repository of Chemnitz University of Technology.

Publications with publication funding

The University Library Chemnitz has established institutional memberships with the following institutions to streamline the open access publishing workflow.
Please keep in mind our eligibility conditions, other funding opportunities and the submission of the application for the open access publishing funding, before submitting the article.

Frontiers:
The University Library Chemnitz has establish an "Central Invoicing Agreement" with the publisher Frontiers on July 1, 2015. Invoices of all articles which were submitted and accepted after that date can be sent directly to the central university administration. Condition is the affiliation of the corresponding author to the Chemnitz University of Technology.

Please don't forget to confirm the institutional affiliation when submitting the article.

MDPI AG - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute:
From 1 June 2016 to 31 May 2017 the university library holds an institutional membership with the MDPI AG amounting to 159 CHF.
Within the terms of the agreement, authors of the university will receive a 25 % discount on the article processing charges (APC‘s) for accepted articles.
Please don't forget to confirm the institutional affiliation in the online submission system of MDPI.
The invoicing will continue to be issued to the authors. Under the condition that the application for the open access publishing funding was submitted in advance and accepted by the library staff, the invoice can be forwarded to the library.

In open access publishing the peer review process is as important as in conventional journals. For safeguarding their business models open access publisher levies article processing charges (APC). Authors normally make a contract with the respective publisher including the grant of usage rights and the regulation of usage conditions. The grant of rights can be done in form of an ordinary or exclusive usage right, limited or unlimited.

Furthermore the usage can extended by free licenses. The ordinator may grant users extended detailed rights. In Germany the Creative Commons Licenses very well known. Publishing with CC-BY is recommended in the Open Access Policy of the Chemnitz University of Technology.

Licenses with nd-clause calling to grant the right for editing, are not in accordance with the Berlin Declaration.

Why second publication?

Open access articles are cited more often. Some research funders demands to publish funded contributions open access to increase the usage of that information.

Scientific authors should consider the grant of second publication right when selecting the journal for publishing their contribution. This information could be found in the database SHERPA/RoMEO.

If you already have published in a journal, we will gladly assist you to archive your article open access. Please contact us!

Secound publication on the base of alliance licenses

After founding of the priority initiative "Digital Information" of the Alliance of German Science Organisations DFG funded national licenses was transferred and developed into "Alliance Licenses". Focus of Alliance Licenses are the acquisition of dynamic products (current journals, databases and e-books) for the scientific base requirement, often with interdisciplinary activities.

The University Library Chemnitz offers the below mentioned Alliance Licenses.

If you have published by one of this publisher during the contract term, an additional open access publishing in MONARCH-Qucosa is possible.

The European Commission launched a pilot to fund open access publications for finalized FP7 projects. This regards projects of the fields of:

• Health,
• Energy,
• Environment
• Information and Communication Technology,
• Research Infrastrucure,
• Social Science, Economics and Humanities,
• Science in the society

The FP7 post-grant Open Access Pilot enable to fund until 3 open access publications per FP7 project afterwards. Via a web form you can make an funding application.

Eligibility conditions

Source: Anja Oberländer (OpenAIRE): Open-Access-Anforderungen für Publikationen und Forschungsdaten aus EU-geförderten Projekten

The post-grant Open Access Pilot will funded publications:

• from FP7 projects within 2 years beyond the projects
• being peer reviewed in open access journals or monographs
• has not yet been published or has not been paid from project budget
• has a open content license, e. g. Creative Commons
• which should NOT be published in hybrid journals
• where publication costs are not higher than 2.000 EUR per article or 6.000 EUR per book

Here you will find an overview and the policy guidelines: https://www.openaire.eu/postgrant/fp7-post-grant/pilot

Further Information

• Requesting funds for post-grant FP7 publications?
• FP7 post-grant best practices
• FP7 post-grant factsheet

The Horizon 2020 mandate call up scientists to publish their research publications via open access. Funded projects are obligated to publish the results via open access. OpenAire was launched as support project with the aim to promote networking.

As a result of seldom available research data and their importance for the science, the Open Data Pilot was launched as part of Horizon2020. All projects that have been financially supported under a EU research framework programme should provide their research data.
First of all two types of data were defined for the implementation:

1. Data (inc. relevant metadata), which are necessary for the verfication of results presented in scientific publications;
2. Other data (inc. relevant metadata), e.g. raw data or data, which are not connected with a specific publication and were defined in the „Data Management Plan (DMP)“. If for any reason, this would endanger the project goal, there is an Opt-Out-Option.

The follow-up project OpenAIRE2020 will implement the open access policy and mandates of Horizon2020 and should support the connection between articles and the related research data.

See the New OpenAIRE H2020 Factsheets

For provision of research results, it is recommended to use subject-specific repositories, e.g. for Human Science Europe PubMed Central and for Physics and Engineering Sciences arXiv.

1. Make sure that you keep your exclusive usage right when submitting the manuscript to the publisher to have opportunity of a second publication. See also Legal questions
2. If you may not use the original file, you should store the manuscript version of your article for a second publication.
3. When you upload the publication on MONARCH-Qucosa, enter your Grant Agreement Number.