Funding of open access books

• Authors of monographs or (co-)editors of edited volumes are eligible to apply for funding if they are members of the University of Freiburg and are responsible for the payment of any publication charges.
• In the case of edited volumes, at least one of the editors must be a member of the University of Freiburg.
• An ORCiD ID must be provided.

• Current primary publications, e.g. as yet unpublished monographs or edited volumes, are eligible for funding.
• Only books for which no alternative financing options are available are eligible for funding.
• Edited volumes are eligible for funding if a book processing charge (BPC) is charged for the entire volume. Individual contributions to edited volumes by members of the University of Freiburg are not eligible for funding.

• Open access publication fees (Book Processing Charges, BPCs) are fully pre-financed by the University Library. Some faculties may pass on part of the BPCs to the authors later on. If in doubt, please contact your faculty for clarification.
• Funding for printing costs or surcharges for colour illustrations, page counts, etc., is not available.

• All parts of the funded work have to be permanently available online immediately after publishing – worldwide and free of charge. The open access version of the funded book must appear before or simultaneously with any publication of a print version.
• The book must be available under a permanent web address (DOI or URN).
• The Guidelines for Safeguarding Good Research Practice need to be followed.
• The publisher has to be listed as a dedicated open access publisher, e.g. in the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) or as a member of the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA).
• The publisher must issue a transparent calculation of the open access publishing charges. Only these charges will be reimbursed by the publication fund.

• The publication must appear under a free licence (preferably Creative Commons Attribution/CC BY).
• The authors or editors only transfer non-exclusive rights of use to the publisher.
• The rights to images and other material provided by third parties have been cleared beforehand.

• The publication must contain a reference to the support received from the publication fund of the University of Freiburg.
• The affiliation of the authors or (co-)editors to the University of Freiburg must be clear from the publication.
• All funded publications are indexed and made available from the institutional repository FreiDok plus.

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