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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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- preprint: scientific work that has not been peer-reviewed; author has rights of use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.
- 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
