Funding of Open Access Articles and Monographs

The publication process incurs costs for editing, typesetting, technical infrastructure, and more. There are various models for covering these costs. In closed access, the costs are covered by subscriptions and book purchases by libraries. In Open Access, authors are often charged so-called article or book processing charges (APC and BPC). Universities often cover these costs - under certain conditions. Furthermore, there are journals that do not charge their authors for publishing articles. Other funding options exist to allow authors to publish for free.

You will learn about the financing options available for journal articles and monographs in the following videos:

Finanzierung von Open-Access-Artikeln: 

https://doi.org/10.5446/49536

Finanzierung von Monografien:

https://doi.org/10.5446/49535

Generally speaking, you should always ask your institution what funding options or contracts are available with journals or publishers. You can find the contact persons in the oa.atlas.