Application open-access article

Personal Information

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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 title

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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 or APC of your publication here. APC stands for "Article Processing Charge" and refers to the publication fee in Open Access journals.

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.

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 Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University of Bonn:

The corresponding author is a member of the University of Bonn or the University Hospital (UKB) at the time of application.
The journal/edited volume applies recognized quality assurance procedures in the respective field (Peer Review).
The funded publication is published under a Creative Commons license (CC BY or CC BY-ND).
The publication contains an acknowledgment of the funding: "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).

Please note:

If any of the conditions are not met, we reserve the right to deny funding for the publication!
The CC license must be indicated on the publisher’s invoice.
The payment terms on the publisher's invoice must be at least 30 days!
If these conditions are not met, we reserve the right not to pay the invoice!

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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The article is published under the following Creative Commons licence:

Consent

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

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