Open Access Publication Funding / 2022 – 2024 / University of Bamberg

• Applicants: Professor Dr. Kai Fischbach; Dr. Fabian Franke
• Subject Area: Sociological Theory
• Term: since 2022
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 491108733

The University of Bamberg is a medium-sized university with a clear profile in the Humanities, in the Social Sciences, Economics, and Business Administration, in Human Sciences and Education as well as in Information Systems and Applied Computer Sciences. It sees itself as an Open Access pioneer in the Humanities and Social Sciences. With this project, the University of Bamberg supports the transformation in the scientific publication culture, especially in these subjects, towards Open Access as the standard. Scholars at the University of Bamberg should be able to publish Open Access articles in both journals and books, regardless of the financial resources of their respective department or institute. To this end, the University provides clear structures and services for academic publishing as well as financial support centrally via the university library. The project follows on from the DFG project "Open-Access-Publizieren", which supported the University of Bamberg's Open Access Publication Fund. Since 2020, there has been a publication fund for Open Access books and contributions to Open Access anthologies. The university publishing house, University of Bamberg Press, founded in 2007, enables all university members to publish quality-checked Open Access monographs free of charge.The University of Bamberg has many small disciplines for which the usual article processing charges would mean a high financial burden even for individual articles. For this reason, the university advocates an approach of centralised funding of Open Access costs. The University of Bamberg already records and links publications, projects and third-party funding sources in its current research information system (CRIS). In doing so, the university library ensures high metadata quality. During the funding period, CRIS will be expanded to include a research data bibliography that is linked to the institutional research data repository. Open Access is also to become the standard for research data at the University of Bamberg.

• DFG Programme: Science Communication, Research Data, eResearch (Scientific Library Services and Information Systems)