Open-Access-Publication-Funding / 2025 - 2027 / University of Freiburg

• Applicant: Dr. Antje Kellersohn
• Term: since 2021
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 491343583

The University of Freiburg pursues a consistent Open Science strategy. On the basis of its Open Science Policy the university “commits to fostering a culture of open science and challenges its scientific staff and students to actively shape the transformation towards open science and act in accordance with its principles“. This appeal also includes the call to make research results (publications, research data, teaching and learning materials, software, etc.) freely available in the spirit of Open Access. The Freiburg University Library is the central and sustainable service infrastructure for open access publishing for the entire university. With its institutional repository FreiDok plus and the FreiJournals platform, innovative infrastructures are operated for this purpose. A university press (Freiburg University Publishing) is currently being set up. Since 2011, Freiburg University Library has managed the central Open Access publication fund for the entire university as well as an increasing number of transformative agreements and Open Access memberships. It was an active project partner in Projekt DEAL until February 2023 and negotiates OA transformative agreements in the Baden-Württemberg consortium. In addition, Freiburg University Library acts as a campus-wide advisory and qualification centre for Open Access as well as media law and copyright issues. With the help of the funding applied for in the second phase (2025-2027) of the DFG program "Open Access Publication Funding", the University of Freiburg intends to further expand its role in the transformation to Open Access publishing at local, but also national and international level and to provide its members with even better support in financing publication costs through the established transformative agreements and Open Access memberships as well as the university’s publication fund. Based on the structures and processes established in the first funding phase (2022-2024) for comprehensive monitoring of publications and the associated costs, the university will also work intensively in the second funding phase towards consolidating financial flows in the sense of an integrated information budget.

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