The first publication of scientific and scholarly works in pure Open Access journals, Open Access monographs or in Open Access anthologies or conference proceedings is referred to as Gold Open Access. The works are usually quality-assured in the form of peer review or editorial review. Once published, the works are accessible worldwide free of charge and are usually published with an open content licence. The difference to the classic business model is the complete waiver of subscription and licence fees that academic libraries or other institutions or individuals pay to publishers for subscriptions to printed journals or for access to electronic resources (databases, journals, monographs, ...).

Please note that authors may be charged publication fees, so-called Article Processing Charges (APCs) or Book Processing Charges (BPCs), for Gold Open Access publishing.

Authors at Paderborn University have the following options

  • the possibility of funding through the University's Open Access Publication Fund as well as
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  • Funding or discount possibilities for APCs due to the participation of the University Library in so-called transformation agreements as well as in other licence agreements.
    Information on this can be found on the page: Publishing Agreements (support through existing publishing agreements).

Fund­ing op­por­tun­it­ies

For authors of the Paderborn University there are

  • the possibility of funding through the Open Access Publication Fund of the university as well as
  • Funding and discount options for APCs due to the University Library's participation in so-called transformation agreements and other licence agreements.
    Information can be found on the page: Publishing agreements (Support through existing publishing agreements).

Ad­vice and con­tact

E-mail: openaccess(at)ub.uni-paderborn(dot)de
Tel: +49 5251 60-2035 (Birgit Bohle) and +49 5251 60-2032 (Christiane Franz)

Fur­ther in­form­a­tion for au­thors