Promotion of Open Access projects independent of publishers – PublikationsfondsPLUS

The Open Access (OA) Publication Fund of the University of Leipzig supports you in the implementation of high-quality and sustainable Open Access (OA) projects.
In principle, there are no restrictions on the formats of the OA publications supported. For example, support can be provided for the founding of new OA journals or the transformation of previously subscription-based journals to Open Access, the publication of monographic series or conference proceedings, and much more. Funding provided by the so-called PublikationsfondsPLUS as part of the OA funding at the University Leipzig explicitly includes support for the professionalization of existing OA projects at UL.
The Open Science Office of the University of Leipzig will be happy to advise you on the application process and on your project plans.

Eligibility criteria

Publications must be immediately and unrestrictedly accessible (Open Access).publications must be provided with stable identifiers (e.g. URN, DOI, Handle) in order to enable long-term citation and feeding into verification systems.publications must be provided with (machine-readable) licenses for subsequent use.the scientific quality of the project as well as its scope in terms of internationalization, importance for the subject, cooperation must be proven.

Scope of Funding

Application

Please send your application to the Open Science Office. It should be not more than two pages long and contain the following points:

Presentation of the project idea
Comments on the sustainability of the project (personnel, structure, data management, verification)
Information on the quality assurance of the subject area
Comments on the scope of the project in terms of internationalization, significance for the subject, cooperation
Financial and task planning
Information on the person responsible for the project, contact details of the contact persons

Quality assurance

Supported Projects

Supported Projects 2016

Relaunch and Extension of the web pages of Gender Glossar
Applicants: Barbara Drinck, Ilse Nagelschmidt, Heinz-Jürgen Voss (Editors of GenderGlossar)
Launch auf reVisions, a multilingual Open Access Platform for Discussions on Culture in East Asia and Beyond
Applicant: Martin Roth (Japanese Studies)
Support for a special open access edition of the journal MATCH for the "Mathematics in Chemistry Meeting" 2016 in Leipzig, published by Prirodno-Matematički Fakultet/Univerzitet u Novom Sad, Serbia
Applicant: Peter Stadler (Bioinformatics)

Supported Projects 2019

Launch of arbeitstitel | Forum für Leipziger Promovierende, an Open Access journal for doctoral students at Leipzig University
Applicant: Thomas Schmid (Institute for Computer Science) on behalf of the Doctoral Student Council
Support for the publication of the conference proceedings "Ideologie, Kritik, Öffentlichkeit. Verhandlungen des Netzwerks Kritische Kommunikationswissenschaft" on the publication server of the Leipzig University
Applicant: Uwe Krüger (Institute for Communication and Media Studies)