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The following information applies to the primary publication of articles in open access journals that charge publication fees, i.e. APCs (article processing charges).
The funding support and financing options described below are available to members of Helmut Schmidt University (HSU) only. Therefore, please make sure to clearly indicate “HSU” as your affiliation. In addition, please use your HSU e-mail address that ends with “@hsu-hh.de” when communicating with the publishers. A further prerequisite is that you take on the role of “corresponding author” (if this role has been assigned to several people, your function must be “responsible corresponding author”).
If all of these basic requirements are met, you have two funding support and financing options:
Please indicate your affiliation as follows:
Helmut-Schmidt-Universität / Universität der Bundeswehr Hamburg
or
Helmut Schmidt University / Bundeswehr University Hamburg
Ringold Identifier: 26554
ISNI: 0000 0001 2238 0831
GRID: grid.49096.32
ROR ID: https://ror.org/04e8jbs38
The HSU library has entered into a series of framework agreements with publishers (“Read and Publish” deals) which enable you to publish your article in their open access journals for free or at a reduced rate.
A funding application is not required for this publication route. Please check whether a framework agreement exists with the publisher of your chosen journal!
Free and unlimited open access publishing in ACM journals and conference proceedings.
For an overview of eligible conference and journal titles, please click here.
ACM provides further information on its website.
ree open access publishing in CUP’s Gold Open Access and hybrid journals.
For a list of the journals included, please click here (xlsx file).
Cambridge University Press provides further information on its website.
Free open access publishing in hybrid, economics-related journals. For a list of these journals, please click here.
De Gruyter’s open access journals are not covered by the agreement. In this case, our publication fund may apply.
De Gruyter provides further information on its website.
As a corresponding author at HSU, you may publish your articles open access in all Emerald journals. The article processing charges (APCs) will be covered by HSU and processed through the University Library at HSU. Should you agree on additional services with the publisher (e.g. for colour illustrations or extra length), Emerald will send you a separate invoice.
For a list of the journals, please click here (xlsx file).
Free open access publishing in the 29 hybrid journals of the PsyJOURNALS collection.
For information on the journals, please refer to the agreement.
Hogrefe provides further information on its website.
Free open access publishing in most of IOP’s Gold Open Access and hybrid journals, with no limit to the number of articles. For a list of the journals included, please click here (List A, B and D).
Through a licence agreement with IEEE, this publisher grants us a fixed number of articles for which open access publishing is possible in all Gold Open Access and hybrid journals at no extra cost. Conference contributions are excluded. Additional costs such as colour or page charges are not included in the agreement.
For a list of the journals included, please click here.
IEEE provides further information on its website.
Free and unlimited open access publishing in all PLOS journals.
For an overview of eligible conference and journal titles, please click here.
PLOS provides further information on its website.
Free open access publishing in all RSC journals.
For a list of the journals, please click here.
RSC provides further information on its website.
Free open access publishing in hybrid journals (xlsx file) from the humanities and social sciences.
SAGE’s open access journals are not covered by the agreement. However, as a member of HSU, you have a 20 percent discount on standard APCs. HSU’s open access publication fund will cover the remaining costs, provided they do not exceed the fund’s cost ceiling (cf. funding support eligibility criteria for the publication fund).
SAGE provides further information on its website.
The previous Springer Nature Deal agreement does not yet enable publishing in Nature and Nature-branded research journals. With the supplementary agreement, it is now possible, too.
A list of journals can be found here (PDF).
Springer Nature provides further information on its website.
Free open access publishing in more than 2,000 hybrid journals from Taylor & Francis and Routledge.
A list of these journals can be found here.
Taylor & Francis provides further information on its website.
The DEAL agreements enable thousands of research contributions from German institutions to be published open access each year, making them immediately accessible and reusable worldwide at no charge.
A list of the journals included can be found here (xlsx file).
The DEAL agreements enable thousands of research contributions from German institutions to be published open access each year, making them immediately accessible and reusable worldwide at no charge.
A list of the journals included can be found here (xlsx-Datei).
The DEAL agreements enable thousands of research contributions from German institutions to be published open access each year, making them immediately accessible and reusable worldwide at no charge.
You can publish your articles free of charge in open access in more than 2,500 Elsevier journals. The agreement covers both the publisher’s hybrid journals and genuine open access journals.
A list of the journals included can be found here (xlsx file).
Free publishing in the journal “wt Werkstattstechnik online”.
VDI Fachmedien provides further information on its website.
Is the open access journal of your choice not covered by a framework agreement? Then you can submit an individual request for financial support to pay for your publication costs.
The HSU library manages the publication fund of the HSU / Uni BwH for open access publications and can cover your publication costs (APCs) upon request.
Note: There is no funding support for submissions to hybrid subscription journals.
If funding support is approved, the publication fund will cover your publication costs in full and pay the publisher directly.
For this purpose, the invoice must contain the following details (mandatory information).
Helmut-Schmidt-Universität / Universität der Bundeswehr Hamburg
– Universitätsbibliothek, Publikationsfonds
Holstenhofweg 85
D-22043 Hamburg
Germany
If you have any questions regarding the financing of your open access publication, please contact:
040 6541-2714