General Funding Criteria

• OA publications can be funded provided they have passed through a professionally recognised quality control process and have been accepted by the publisher for publication. Besides established peer review processes by expert reviewers and/or series editors, quality assurance may include community peer review, open peer review, post-publication peer review, reviewed preprints, and other forms.
• Funding should primarily be awarded for OA publications from publishers who communicate their services and costs for OA publication fees to the authors/editors in a transparent manner.
• Funded OA publications should be published under a free licence, i.e. Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY).
• The authors/editors grant the publisher only non-exclusive rights.
• Applicants are advised to register with ORCID.
• The publication is given a persistent identifier (PID) – preferably a DOI.
• The authors’/editors’ affiliation to the Weizenbaum Institute is acknowledged in the publication. WI affiliation is defined in the WI statutes and rules of procedure and the cooperation agreement between the WI and its network partners (see below for affiliation requirements for specific publication forms).

The publications contain a reference to the funding from the Weizenbaum Institute publication fund – preferably in the following form, depending on the publication language (without the editorial comments in square brackets):

• German – „Die Veröffentlichungsgebühr für diesen Aufsatz [bei Zeitschriftenartikeln, Anm. d. Red.]/für dieses Buch [bei Monografien, Lehr- und Sachbüchern, Sammel- und Konferenzbänden] wurde durch das Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF), Förderkennzeichen 16DII131, und den Open-Access-Publikationsfonds des Weizenbaum-Instituts für die vernetzte Gesellschaft, Berlin (ko-) finanziert.“
• English – „The article processing charge [for journal articles, ed. note]/book processing charge [for books, edited volumes, conference proceedings] was (co-) funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), grant no. 16DII131, and the Open Access Publication Fund of the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society, Berlin.“
• Others – For publications in other languages, please send us an email: openaccess@weizenbaum-institut.de

• In cases where funding sources are combined, the funding criteria of the various funding providers should be observed alongside the WI criteria.
• As soon as the publication is released, it is freely and permanently available to readers worldwide in digital form.
• The OA version is published at the same time as, or prior to, any parallel print version.
• The publication is clearly identified as an OA publication on the publisher’s website and in the imprint of the publication. This applies equally to digital versions and any print versions. An appropriate notice will mention cost-free access and the free licence.
• If a print version is offered, the OA version is provided and promoted by the publisher to at least the same extent and is not treated less favourably or given less importance. In particular, publishers must not hide the OA version, position the notice about the OA version in a hidden or inconspicuous place, or promote a parallel print version exclusively, without mentioning the OA version.
• Additional costs for fast-track reviews, excess length and the like will not be covered.
• The applicants confirm that the publication costs cannot be covered by other publication funds, especially through DFG, BMBF or EU projects.
• Funding can be provided for up to two journal articles and one monograph, textbook, edited volume or set of conference proceedings per person per year.
• As a rule, the order in which funding is approved follows the date of application. The funding confirmation is valid for 6 months for journal articles and 12 months for monographs, textbooks, edited volumes, and conference proceedings. If the work has not been published by the end of this period, a new application for funding must be submitted.
• All funded publications are also archived in the Weizenbaum Library (OA repository of the WI) and made accessible online. For this purpose, please send the published version of your work to openaccess[at]weizenbaum-institut.de.
• It is preferable if your publication is linked to other resources – such as research data, which should also be made available in line with the OA principles, particularly the FAIR and CARE principles.

The applicants, i.e., the authors or editors of the publication, are responsible for ensuring the requirements relating to the publication and the publisher are met, and for clarifying these requirements with the publisher. For this reason, please notify your contact person at the publishing house in good time about implementation of these requirements.