Open Access Publication Fund

The central Open Access (OA) Publication Fund primarily finances publications by institute members that meet the following funding criteria and whose costs cannot be met at research group level. Deviations from the following awarding criteria are possible in justified cases.

For a successful application, you should at least read the key relevant sections on the following topics: General funding criteria, Funding criteria for journal articles, Funding criteria for books. If you have any further questions regarding funding through the central fund, we would be happy to advise you personally. Please send us an email: openaccess[at]weizenbaum-institut.de.

Application

To apply for funding from the WI Publication Fund, please fill out the online form.

Transparency: Weizenbaum Library and Open APC

Following publication, publications that have received funding from the Publication Fund can also be found in the Weizenbaum Library, the WI’s OA repository.

After the end of the year, the funding costs incurred are documented for each article or book on the Open APC platform, where universities and non-university research institutes share their expenditure data for OA publication fees openly and in visual formats. This enables the scientific community and society to participate in the public discussion about the transition in scholarly publishing in the context of OA transformation, which means the platform fulfils one of our institute’s core objectives.