Open Access enables you to publish your research results worldwide, freely accessible and reusable without legal or technical barriers. Many Open Access publishers charge authors publication costs for this: either Article Processing Charges (APCs) or Book Processing Charges (BPCs). As a scientist at the University of Cologne / University Hospital Cologne, you have various options for financing these costs.

As the central coordination centre for Open Access publication funding, the University and City Library of Cologne has concluded further contracts with academic publishers to promote Open Access in addition to the DEAL project. In addition, we have been supporting authors at the University of Cologne for many years through our own Open Access solutions as well as through financial support for individual and nationwide Open Access initiatives.

Open Access cooperations

We have been supporting authors at the University of Cologne for many years through our own Open Access solutions as well as through financial support for individual and nationwide Open Access initiatives.

We are involved in the following initiatives and pilot projects:

• De Gruyter OA Geisteswissenschaften
• De Gruyter Millenium-Studien
• Fachportal Pädagogik - Erziehungswissenschaft, Bildungsforschung, Fachdidaktik
• Knowledge Unlatched
• Konsortiale Open-Access-Lösungen aufbauen - KOALA
• Mercator-Institut und Waxmann-Verlag
• Mohr Siebeck Open Geschichtswissenschaft
• OAPEN
• Open Book Publishers
• Open Library Economics ejournals (OLEcon)
• Open Library of Humanities
• SCOAP3 - Hochenergiephysik (HEP)
• transcript OPEN Library Medienwissenschaft
• transcript OPEN Library Politikwissenschaft

For questions on the funding of OA publications: