Application open-access book chapter

Personal Information

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Author's name

Faculty / Institution

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Institute

Work address

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Information about the publication

Title of the book chapter

If the title has not yet been chosen, you are welcome to provide a working 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 or CPC of your publication here. CPC stands for "Chapter Processing Charge" and refers to the publication fee of a chapter in an open-access book.

Currency

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The book chapter is published under the following Creative Commons license:

Expected publication date

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

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 author or editor is a current member of the University of Bonn or the University Hospital Bonn at the time of application.
It is a first publication.
The publisher applies quality assurance procedures recognized in the respective field.
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 a publisher recognized within the field.
The publication contains an acknowledgment of the funding: "This work was supported by the Open Access Publication Fund of the University of Bonn."
The contribution to the edited volume will be published under a Creative Commons license in Open Access.

Please note:

The payment term 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 the funding criteria 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 a chapter in an open-access book.

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I agree that the amount of the funded Chapter Processing Charge (CPC) will be published

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