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How to fund your open access publication

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” or “hsu.hamburg” 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:

1. Framework agreements

2. Publication fund

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

Framework agreements with publishers

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!

Enables

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).

Conditions

  • Your article is one of the following article types: full length articles, review articles, case reports, data in brief, microarticle, original software publication, protocol, replication study, short communication, short survey, video article.

More information

  • The DEAL project provides additional information and practical support at DEAL Operations.
  • For further information, please view Elsevier publishing information page.

 

Enables

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).

Conditions

  • Your article has to be one of the following types of article:
    • In hybrid journals („Open Choice“): original paper, review paper, brief communication, editorial notes, book reviews, letters, reports.
    • In open access journals („Fully Open Access“): original paper, review paper, brief communication.
    • In specialist medical journals („Facharztzeitschrift“): original paper, review paper, brief communication.

More information

  • The DEAL project provides additional information and practical support at DEAL Operations.
  • For further information, please view Springer’s information page.

Enabels

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).

Conditions

  • Your article is a primary research or review article.
  • The article was accepted for publication on/after July 1, 2019 (only  applies to hybrid journals).

More information

Enables

Free and unlimited open access publishing in ACM journals and conference proceedings.

For an overview of eligible conference and journal titles, please click here.

More information

ACM provides further information on its website.

Enables

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).

Conditions

  • The journal is one of the publisher’s hybrid or open access journals.
  • Your article is one of the following types: research articles, review articles, rapid communications, brief report or case reports.

More information

Cambridge University Press provides further information on its website.

Enables

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.

Conditions

  • The journal is one of the publisher’s hybrid journals as mentioned above.

More information

De Gruyter provides further information on its website.

Enables

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).

More information

  • Emerald provides further information on its website.
  • For information on the submission workflow, please click here (PDF).

 

Enables

Free open access publishing in the 29 hybrid journals of the PsyJOURNALS collection.

For information on the journals, please refer to the agreement.

Conditions

  • Your article is a research article or original article, a short contribution, a review or news. Conference reports etc. are not covered by the agreement.

More information

Hogrefe provides further information on its website.

 

Enables

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.

More information

IEEE provides further information on its website.

 

Enables

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).

Conditions

  • Your article is one of the following types of primary research article: letters, papers, special issue articles (no review articles).

More information

 

Enables

Free and unlimited open access publishing in all PLOS journals.

For an overview of eligible conference and journal titles, please click here.

More information

PLOS provides further information on its website.

Enables

Free open access publishing in all RSC journals.

For a list of the journals, please click here.

More information

RSC provides further information on its website.

Enables

Free open access publishing in the following journals: 


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).

Conditions

  • Your article belongs to one of the following categories: original research paper, review paper, brief communications, short reports, case reports.

More information

SAGE provides further information on its website.

Enables

Free open access publishing in Nature and Nature-branded research journals.

A list of journals can be found here (PDF).

More information

Springer Nature provides further information on its website.

Enables

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.

Conditions

  • Your article is a „research article“. The following page contains a list of eligible article types, which are marked „RA“.

More information

Taylor & Francis provides further information on its website.

Enables

Free publishing in the journal “wt Werkstattstechnik online”.

More information

VDI Fachmedien provides further information on its website.

Publication fund

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.

  • Open access journal: Funding support is possible in the case of journals indexed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). This applies if your research article is submitted to a genuine open access journal that uses „peer-reviewing“ methods etc. to scientific quality.

Note: There is no funding support for submissions to hybrid subscription journals.

Important information:
  • openHSU: We strongly recommend that you deposit a secondary publication of your published article in the openHSU repository for long-term archiving.
  • DOI & ORCID: If possible, your article should be assigned a DOI and connected to your ORCID profile.
  • Funding note: If you would like to include a reference to funding support in your publication, please use the following binding wording:
    „This publication has been funded by the Open Access Publication Fund of the Helmut-Schmidt-University / Bundeswehr University Hamburg.“
  1. Ideally contact us early on in your publication project.
  2. Submit your funding application as the corresponding author of the article.
  3. We will then examine your application based on the eligibility criteria. This usually takes one to two working days.
  4. If your application base on the eligibility criteria, you will receive a binding funding commitment by e-mail.
  5. Invoice requests and processing will be dealt with by the Library.
  6. The Library will then pay the publisher directly.

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).

Billing address

Helmut-Schmidt-Universität / Universität der Bundeswehr Hamburg
– Universitätsbibliothek, Publikationsfonds
Holstenhofweg 85
D-22043 Hamburg
Germany

Additional mandatory information on invoices
  • Invoice number
  • Invoice date
  • Full address and bank details (IBAN and BIC) of the invoicing party
  • Tax identification number / VAT ID of HSU: DE 243036645
  • Description of the article details:
    • Journal name
    • Title of the article
    • Corresponding or submitting author

Contact us

If you have any questions regarding the financing of your open access publication, please contact:

 Dr. Frank Nober
☎ 040 6541-2714

Katharina Krug                     Emily Carlsen          
☎ 040 6541-2334               ☎ 040 6541-2350