RPTU has successfully acquired DFG funding from the “Open Access Publication Costs” program for the years 2025-2027. Part of the working program is to take measures “to ensure the implementation of funding acknowledgements in publications, [...].” ( DFG (2023): Fact sheet and supplementary guide. Open access publication costs. https://www.dfg.de/de/formulare-12-21-246452 ,p. 10.)
In order to comply with the requirements of the funding program, we ask you to use your grant reference including project number as usual for all publications resulting from third-party funded projects.
Another requirement is the use of an ORCiD when publishing articles. Please link your ORCiD to your articles. Further information on ORCiD can be found here: https://ub.rptu.de/schreiben-publizieren/wissenschaftliche-profile
Financial support for Open Access publications
The condition for publishing within our contracts in both Hybrid and Gold Open Access is:
- The research work was primarily conducted at RPTU.
- The submission must be made using a valid RPTU e-mail address.
- The corresponding author is an active, researching member of RPTU.
- RPTU is stated as the main affiliation in the article.
When specifying your affiliation, please use the official name of the university as a reference: “Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern-Landau” or “RPTU University Kaiserslautern-Landau”.
Discounts / OA-Regulations from publisher side
Reduced APC for a corresponding author who is an active member of ASM at any level except the supporting member level.
https://aac.asm.org/content/publication-fees
Journal editors get 15% off publishing fees.
https://www.degruyter.com/dg/page/article-processing-charges
A 10% discount is available for all A-type articles whenever a Field Chief Editor, Specialty Chief Editor or Associate Editor is the corresponding author.
A 10% discount is available for all A-type articles whenever a Review Editor is the corresponding author and has submitted within 3 months of either joining the editorial board or completing a Frontiers article review.
A 10% discount is available for A-type articles submitted within the Research Topic deadline.
In cases where authors do not have the means to pay the APCs, they can apply for full or partial waivers.
https://www.frontiersin.org/about/publishing-fees
Discount for Members of the Royal Society of Chemistry. Please include your membership number in the online application form when requested to do so. We will then apply a 15% discount automatically.
http://www.rsc.org/journals-books-databases/open-access/gold-open-access/#apc
Open Access strategies and funding opportunies from third-party funders
The European Commission launched Open Research Europe, an open access publishing platform for scientific papers. The platform will present the results of research funded by Horizon Europe, the EU research and innovation programme for 2021-2027, and its predecessor, Horizon 2020. This new platform is an optional service for Horizon Europe and Horizon 2020 beneficiaries so that they can comply with their funding requirements for immediate open access, at no cost to them.
Also research data from Horizon Europe/Horizon 2020 projects have to be published mandatory as open access.
Further information can be found here:
Press release European Commission 24th of March 2021
Beneficiaries have to upload all their manuscripts and scientific data to an adequate repository. The metadata records have to be freely available and must include the following data:
- terms ["European Union (EU)" & "Horizon 2020“/“Horizon Europe“]
- name of the action, acronym and grant number
- publication date, the length of the embargo period (if applicable) and a persistent identifier (e.g. ORCID)
The purpose of the bibliographic metadata requirement is to make it easier to find publications and ensure that EU funding is acknowledged.
H2020 Programme: Guidelines to the Rules on Open Access to Scientific Publications and Open Access to Research Data in Horizon 2020, p. 7 (version 3.2, 2017/03/21)