Hilfe bei Kosten für Open Access « German-Language ForeignAffairs

From Google Translate: "The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) supports scientists to make their publications available to the general public free of charge. Fees for high-quality open access publications from BMBF-funded projects are covered by a new funding initiative. 'Sustainable funding is the prerequisite for free access to scientific publications,' said State Secretary Cornelia Quennet-Thielen on the start of the funding initiative. High-quality publications are not free of charge. With the new Post-Grant-Fund, we help scientists to provide free access to their publications.

Open access journals and publishers cover the cost of publication often through fees that are payable by the authors. If a publication appears only after the end of a research project, these costs can no longer be covered by the project funds. Authors must then themselves take care of the funding. This is an obstacle for open access. The BMBF is therefore promoting the publication fees for publications from completed and funded projects funded by the BMBF from the newly created Post-Grant Fund.

The Post-Grant Fund flanked the so-called open access clause in the project promotion of the Federal Research Ministry. The clause encourages authors to provide scientific contributions from BMBF-funded projects as open access publications. In this way, authors are not only relieved, but also encouraged to make their scientific contributions to the public available on the Internet free of charge."