Open Access

Our objectives

The Central Library (ZB) of Forschungszentrum Jülich supports open access.

Open access publications provide free access to the results of publicly funded research.

The knowledge and information are made available to everyone without any access restrictions in a permanent digital form.

Overview of different open access forms and brief information on the payment of charges covered by our publication fund

Gold Open Access

first publication of scientific articles in open access journals
peer review process for the purpose of quality assurance
publication agreement with the publisher to define the rights of use transferred by the author to the publisher and the terms of use for articles
publication fees in the form of article processing charges (APCs) are incurred
no charges for readers
Publication charges of up to € 3,000 per article and € 5,000 per monograph are covered by ZB.

Diamond Open Access

first publication of scientific articles in open access journals
peer review process for the purpose of quality assurance
many diamond OA journals funded by scientific institutions
only non-exclusive rights of use are typically granted by the authors
no publication charges for authors
no charges for readers
The Central Library (ZB) of FZJ itself publishes diamond open access journals. We also support corresponding journals, publishers, and portals with funds from our publication fund.

Green Open Access

parallel or subsequent secondary publication from closed access journals
usually on an institutional or disciplinary open access document server
preprint: scientific work that has not been peer-reviewed; author has rights of use
postprint: “final draft post referee” – scientific work that has been peer-reviewed and accepted for publication by a publisher, but is not yet in the publisher's layout
Any costs incurred by publishers are not covered by ZB. After verifying secondary publication rights, we publish these green open access publications in JuSER in the same way as the other open access publications described.

Hybrid Open Access

first open access publication of scientific articles in closed access journals
peer review process for the purpose of quality assurance
publication agreement with the publisher to define the rights of use transferred by the author to the publisher and the terms of use for articles
Any costs incurred are only covered by ZB if a transformative or publish and read agreement is in place with the publisher.

Publication via JuSER publications portal

The official document repository of Forschungszentrum Jülich is operated by the Central Library and has an open access policy. Content of the open access collection of the publications portal can be read and downloaded in PDF format. We ask our authors to upload the accepted manuscript version of the publication (final draft post referee) to JuSER. After verifying secondary publication rights, we enable free access to the publication as soon as possible, thus ensuring the dissemination of the publication. Once the publication has been uploaded to JuSER, it can be found by open access search engines..
Open Access in the JuSER Publications Portal

Your contacts at ZB

† Irene Barbers
The employees of the Central Library are mourning the sudden loss of our highly valued colleague Irene Barbers. We will continue to honour her memory.
Head of Publications team

Ines Schmahl
i.schmahl@fz-juelich.de
+49 2461 61-6889
Open science representate of FZJ

Last Modified: 20.01.2025

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