Open Access Submission Form – Library Funding Options

The Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU) offers support for open access publishing in line with its Open Science Policy. The University Library (UB) manages both internal and DFG-funded resources for this purpose in two funds (one for articles and one for books). Please take note of the different submission forms (see below) and the funding criteria.

In general, only FAU members who are also the corresponding author of the relevant publication are permitted to submit a funding request (article 17 Bavarian Higher Education Act).

Generally, it simplifies the payment process if you do not pay eligible invoices yourselves but submit them to us for payment. We will pay the invoice as soon as possible and potentially issue you with an invoice if there is an author contribution (sent to an address of your choice). In case of third-party funding of the author contribution please note that we cannot issue invoices to addresses in other countries.

If you have already paid for an eligible invoice and would like a refund please upload the completed refund form along with the original invoice and payment confirmation (e.g. credit card statement) via one of the two submission forms in the “Invoice available?” field (within 6 months of the invoice date). The original invoice must always be issued to an FAU address, stating the USt.-ID-/VAT-Nr. DE 132507686. If your invoice is addressed to an institution which is classed as external in terms of VAT (such as the university clinic), we cannot process your invoice. If this is the case you will be asked to request a revised invoice from your publisher.

The DEAL-publishers Wiley, SpringerNature and Elsevier issue a quarterly invoice for all FAU-affiliated articles from fully open access journals directly to the FAU library. Individual articles will be checked for funding eligibility by the library and the corresponding author might receive an invoice from the library for the full or partial amount. Please complete the form Article Fund and tick the box “Wiley or SpringerNature or Elsevier DEAL – no invoice” instead of uploading a document.