Open Access application form

The central Open Access Publishing Fund 2021 has been exhausted. Please use
alternative sources of funds (e.g., own or departmental budgets).

Open Access Publishing Fund

The Open Access Publishing Fund provides funding to help FAU authors pay reasonable fees associated with open access publishing. The Fund is a component of FAU´s Open Access Policy. (urn:nbn:de:bvb:29-opus4-68651)

Please observe the eligibility criteria. For all grants, an author co-payment of 25% of the gross amount will be required. The University Library will initially transfer the full amount of the invoice and then issue the author with an invoice for 25% of the publication fee.

Apply for funding

When applying for funding, you need to be a
- member of FAU according to Section 17 BayHSchG and a
- corresponding or submitting author of the article.
The invoice must be issued to the FAU. Invoices with billing addresses from external institutions (regarding taxation / VAT), e. g. the University Hospital, cannot be processed. However, if one of the facilities of the University Hospital will finance the co-payment, please select the facility in the following selection box and note the information below.
Are you a applicant belonging to the University Hospital?*
- yes
- no
Clinic*
Funding*
- I have no alternative form of funding
Publication fee*
- The publication fee does not exceed 2000 euros per article incl. VAT.
Open Access*
- My article appears in a purely Open Access journal under an open license (for example Creative Commons ).
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Personal data
Name*
E-Mail*
Organizational unit
Organizational unit*
Faculty*
Faculty
You need to be the corresponding or submitting author to send this form!
Article details
Journal*
Article title*
Invoices in foreign currencies must be stated at the relevant rate of exchange including German value added tax of 19%:
Currency*
Publication fee*
Author participation (approximate value including VAT)

Price: € 0.00
Upload invoice (pdf)*
Drop files here or

Accepted file types: pdf.
Information about the author co-payment
The University Library will usually transfer the full amount of the invoice and then issue the author with an invoice for 25% of the publication fee (VAT included).
Please note, that this author co-payment invoice can only be paid by the University Hospital if the invoice is correctly addressed to the University Hospital according to the following scheme:
Universitätsklinikum Erlangen
Klinik xxx
Name of the researcher
Address
In addition, the University Hospital generally requires a copy of the original publisher's invoice as well as the first page of the publication / publisher´s PDF, a copy of the acknowledgments mentioned in the publication (if these are not shown on the first page) and the yellow allonge for reimbursement. If you have any questions, please contact the responsible Third-Party Funding Officer (Research Funding Department).
Please tell us the appropriate University Hospital address or a different address in the following text field - for example your private address, should the contribution be financed privately:
Address:
Address line 1*
Address line 2
Address line 3
Name of the researcher*
Street*
Zip code*
City*
Comment
In addition, the University Hospital usually requires a copy of the original publisher's invoice as well as the first page of the publication/publishing PDF, a copy of the acknowledgements mentioned in the publication (if these are not visible on the first page) and the yellow allonge for reimbursement.
Confirmation*
- I confirm the completeness and correctness of the above mentioned details.
The information from the contact form will be collected and processed to answer your inquiry. If the publication is not eligible, the e-mail automatically generated after submitting the submission form will be deleted immediately. If the publication is eligible, the e-mail and the information received in it will be deleted at the latest after 10 years (regulations of the Third Book of the Commercial Code on bookkeeping, inventory and storage). Detailed information on the handling of user data can be found in our Privacy Policy.

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Street:	{Street:56}
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Faculty	{Faculty:9}{Faculty:45}
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