Properly Published? Requirements and Pitfalls Concerning Publishing, Copyright and Open Access at the University of Bonn

The University of Bonn supports Open Science and strives to increase the proportion of its publications that appear in Open Access. Open access means that publicly funded scientific knowledge should be accessible without restrictions. To promote this type of scientific publication, the university, represented by the ULB, has concluded a number of contracts (e.g. Wiley and Springer Nature). There are also other Publish&Read agreements with other publishers and memberships in open access transformation initiatives. Since the financing of Open Access is in many cases based on a shift in the costs to be paid away from the classic journal subscription to a publication fee (so-called 'author pays'), the university has together with the ULB and the faculties or institutes set up an Open Access Publication Fund for journal publications. In addition, the ULB offers scientists from the university the possibility of open access publication of their work on our institutional repository 'bonndoc' (both as a first and a second publication).

At the event you will learn what the above contracts mean for you and how funding from the Open Access Publication Fund works. You will also learn what Open Access secondary publications are all about and what options our institutional repository 'bonndoc' offers you.