Funding Open Access Gold

• The publication must be a research article.
• The publication must be released in a true open access journal that applies rigorous quality assurance procedures recognized in the subject. An overview of such Open Access journals, broken down by subject but by no means exhaustive, can be found here: Directory of Open Access Journals
• The corresponding author is a member of the University of Greifswald or the University Medicine Greifswald, and the affiliation is evident in the publication.
• The research on which the article is based must have been carried out at the University of Greifswald or the University Medicine Greifswald.
• The APC cannot be covered entirely by third-party funds.
• The article will be immediately released as an open access publication under a CC license. If possible, the CC BY license should be selected as it corresponds to the recommendation of the Berlin Declaration which the University of Greifswald signed in 2016.
• The funded publication is also stored on the institutional repository (Publikationsserver) of the University of Greifswald.

If you have any questions about our funding conditions, please contact our OA team at openaccessuni-greifswaldde.

From 2025-2027, the open access publication costs in OA Gold journals will continue to be subsidised proportionately from DFG funds. Any costs exceeding the funding amount must be covered by the UG or UMG itself.

In addition to the DFG funds, € 60,000 will be made available centrally by the UG in 2025 to finance open access articles. Additional funds from the faculties will be made available to finance the open access publication costs for articles on the basis of the shares in the previous year. Please note that if you choose a journal with high APC costs, this will lead to a higher proportion of costs for your faculty in the following year. Each faculty decides for itself whether to allocate these costs internally.

The UMG reallocates the own contribution costs of the DFG-funded publication fund to the individual institutes:

• From 2025-2027, as before, 985 € (incl. VAT) per article will be financed from the DFG-funded publication fund.
• The entire publication costs are initially pre-financed centrally. The amount remaining after deducting the subsidy is subsequently posted to the cost center of the relevant UMG institution. The remaining amount can be calculated as invoice total + 19% VAT - EUR 985 subsidy. (exception: VAT is only included in the invoice total for German publishers, so that the remaining amount is the invoice total minus EUR 985 in funding.)
• Therefor, it is mandatory to enter the facility ID.