Open Access Publication Grant
Open Access Publication Grant supports institutions and researchers with publication costs for research articles and scholarly books, helping make research openly available for comprehensive reuse.
Funder: German Research Foundation
Due Dates: May 4, 2027 (Institutions) | Rolling (Individual researchers and supplementary book proposals)
Funding Amounts: €1,400 per article and up to €5,000 per book title for 2027 proposals; one-year institutional funding
Summary: Supports open access publication costs for research articles and scholarly books through allowances calculated from DFG-funded research outputs.
Key Information: Individual researchers may apply only with DFG funding and no eligible institutional affiliation, or additional publication funding needs.
Description
The German Research Foundation (DFG) supports the publication of research articles and scholarly books in open access through fixed publication allowances, rather than funding new research. Institutions can integrate these allowances into their information or publication budgets, including virtual budgets, and use them towards their overall open access publication fees. The amount requested is calculated from publications arising from DFG-funded research.
The programme runs from 2027 to 2033 and succeeds the Open Access Publication Funding programme. It links the DFG’s contribution to publication costs with its responsibility for the research it funds, while supporting central institutional information budgets. Institutional applications follow either a simplified procedure or a full proposal procedure supporting open access structures. Individual DFG-funded researchers can apply in defined exceptional circumstances.
