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Faculty / Institution

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Institute

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Position/Degree

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I am a PostDoc at the University of Bonn and am funded by an Argelander Starter Kit.

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Information about the publication

Article / Book chapter title

Journal / Book title

Publisher

Funding Amount

The maximum funding amount from the Publication Fund is currently 2,000 € per publication.

The 2,000 € funding limit does not refer to the invoice total from the publisher, but to the total publication costs actually recorded by the University – including VAT, currency fluctuations, or subsequent charges. Since many publisher invoices do not include VAT or are issued in foreign currencies, the recorded amount may be higher than the original invoice amount.

This also applies to invoices that indicate 0% VAT, due to regulations regarding foreign invoices and the use of a VAT identification number². In such cases, the publisher issues a net invoice without VAT, and the VAT is then paid by the recipient – i.e., the University of Bonn – and is included in the final recorded cost.

In practical terms: Even if the publisher's invoice shows, for example, only 1,980 €, the actual recorded costs (e.g., due to exchange rates or taxes) may exceed 2,000 €. In such cases, the University and State Library will only cover up to 2,000 €, and your institute will need to cover the remaining amount.

Publication costs

Please specify the publication costs (Article Processing Charge / Chapter Processing Charge) of your publication here.

Currency

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Ancillary publication costs

Please list the ancillary publication costs individually here. Ancillary publication costs are, for example, color charges, page charges, etc. These costs cannot be financed from the fund.

The publication is published under the following Creative Commons licence:

Article: Only CC BY and CC BY-ND licenses are eligible for funding! Chapter: All CC licenses are eligible for funding!

Payment process

The University and State Library will handle the processing of your publisher’s invoice and will initially cover the costs in advance. The costs are settled via the WBS element³ (German: PSP-Element) of the Publication Fund.

For the potential invoicing of any remaining amount over 2,000 € (total publication costs, not the invoice total), we require the following information:

From University members: a WBS element³ and the contact details of a representative.
From University Hospital (UKB) members: only an invoice address and the contact details of a representative.

Please note that the University of Bonn cannot guarantee that the entire invoicing and reimbursement process will be completed quickly and on time (e.g., in cases involving third-party funding).

WBS element

for university members only, not University Hospital (UKB)

Contact at your institution

Email address (contact at your institution)

I have obtained the approval of my institute

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You also confirm that, before submitting your application, you obtained approval from your institution for the remaining publication costs to be covered from its own funds (insofar as these costs exceed €2,000 = total publication costs, not the invoice total).

Funding Criteria

The publication meets the funding criteria established by the University of Bonn (Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn):

The author (corresponding author) is affiliated with the University of Bonn or the University Hospital Bonn (UKB) at the time of application.
The journal / edited volume / publisher applies quality assurance procedures recognized in the relevant discipline (peer review).
The funded publication is published under a Creative Commons license:
- Articles: Only CC BY or CC BY-ND licenses are eligible for funding.
- Book chapters: All CC licenses are eligible for funding.
The publication includes a funding acknowledgement: "This work was supported by the Open Access Publication Fund of the University of Bonn."
The publication should receive a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) and be linked to your Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID).
It must be a first-time publication.
For book chapters only: The publisher is listed as an open access publisher (e.g. in the Directory of Open Access Books or the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association) and/or is recognized within the relevant academic field.

Please note:

If any of these conditions are not met, we reserve the right to decline funding.
For articles only: The Creative Commons license must be stated on the publisher’s invoice.
The invoice must have a payment term of at least 30 days!

More information can be found here!⁴

I hereby certify that I have read the funding criteria and that they have been fulfilled.

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Consent

I hereby apply for funding from the University of Bonn's publication fund to cover the publication fees for an open-access article or book chapter.

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