Application open-access book chapter

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Title of the book chapter

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Publication costs (Please include currency!)

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:

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Payment process

The USL (University and State Library) will process your submitted invoice and initially cover the costs. The expenses will be charged to the publication fund via the WBS element¹ (German: PSP-Element).

The USL forwards the invoice to the university’s financial department. Invoices that are eligible for funding will be paid directly to the publisher by the university's financial department.

Please note that retroactive reimbursement of payments already made by authors cannot be processed by the university’s treasury.

^{1 A WBS element is a code in the accounting system that indicates which part of a project the costs are being charged to.}

Proportionate cost coverage

Depending on the amount of the publication fees (Article Processing Charges = APCs), the costs will be covered as follows:

APCs up to €2,000: The fund will cover the full invoice amount.
APCs over €2,000: You will need to finance the amount exceeding €2,000 yourself. In this case, the remaining amount will be charged to a WBS element (German: PSP-Element) provided by you (e.g., your institute).

Billing of publication costs (over €2,000)

For processing, we require:

For university members (not University Hospital): A WBS element and the contact details of a responsible person.
For the University Hospital: The billing address and the contact details of a responsible person.

Important notes

Please ensure that you have obtained approval from your cost center responsible person and that sufficient funds are available to cover the remaining amount exceeding €2,000.
Please note that publication invoices often do not include tax and/or may be issued in a foreign currency (e.g., USD). As a result, the actual booked amount may differ from the invoice total.
Please be aware that the University of Bonn cannot guarantee that the entire invoicing and reimbursement process will be completed promptly or within the specified timeframe (e.g., when using third-party funds).

WBS element

only for publication costs over € 2,000 total amount (for university members only, not University Hospital). A WBS element is a code in the accounting system that indicates which part of a project the costs are being charged to.

Contact at your institution

only for publication costs over € 2,000 total amount

Email address (contact at your institution)

only for publication costs over € 2,000 total amount

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).

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."
DFG-funded publications must include the DFG acknowledgment.
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.

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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