In close cooperation with the university management, the University and City Library of Cologne provides central funding for Open Access monographs. Please note that the funds available are limited and that applications are processed in the order in which they are received. The funding commitment is valid for three months after receipt of a positive funding decision. As soon as the publication fund is exhausted, no further funding can be approved.

• Monographs, edited volumes and articles in edited volumes are eligible for funding
• Dissertations are only eligible for funding with top marks (summa cum laude and magna cum laude)
  • Proof must be enclosed with the application

• Monograph / anthology / dissertation: Up to a gross invoice amount of €6,000 (incl. 19% VAT), a maximum of half of this amount will be funded.
• Article in an anthology: Up to a gross invoice amount of € 3,000 (incl. 19% VAT), a maximum of half of this amount will be funded.
• Anything in excess of the funding amount must be financed from your own funds.

• All members of the University of Cologne who publish as corresponding author and list the UoC as their primary affiliation are eligible to apply. Please adhere to the publication guidelines of the University of Cologne
• This is a first publication
• The publisher's offer is available and attached
• The publisher applies the recognized quality assurance procedures (peer review) in the respective discipline
• The publisher is listed as an Open Access publisher in the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) or the Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association (OASPA)
• Please always indicate your third-party funding in "Funding Acknowledgements"
• Please provide information about the funding from the publication fund in the form of a "Funding Acknowledgement" / funding reference.
  • Please use the standardized funding acknowledgement: "This publication was produced at the University of Cologne and was funded by the Open Access Publication Fund of the University of Cologne."
• The authors must provide the publications with licenses that regulate the subsequent use of the publications in a legally secure manner. The DFG recommends CC-BY or CC-BY-SA as the standard.
• The use of identification, e.g. ISBN, ISSN or DOI, is mandatory
• The naming of a cost center or WBS element for the proportional assumption of costs is mandatory

• Please fill out the form and send it to monografienoaub.uni-koeln.de
• As the corresponding author, please have the invoices sent as a pdf by e-mail directly from the publisher to the e-mail address: rechnungseingangverw.uni-koeln.de. The following address must be provided to the publisher:

University of Cologne
Zentraler Rechnungseingang
Postfach 41 09 24
50869 Köln
Cost center: 300102100

The supplier must always be informed that the cost center must be stated in addition to the correct invoice address. This is the only way to ensure direct allocation within the university.

Please always state the VAT number (tax number) of the university: DE 123486767.

• As soon as we have received the invoice, we will allocate it in the e-invoice workflow. In the case of an invoice split, the own contribution must be approved by the person responsible for the cost center.

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