Open Access Publications

Funding of Open Access articles

The Publication Fund of the MLU supports staff members of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg and the University Hospital Halle (Saale) by carrying publication costs (Author Publication Charges, APCs) of Open Access journal articles. Please note our transformation contracts and the Open Access-Policy of the MLU.

Application steps

  1. Check if the eligibility criteria are met.
  2. Submit an application using the form. The ULB then tries to check eligibility as quickly as possible. Acceptances or rejections should generally be made known within one week.
  3. Please pay invoices over 2,000 yourself first and then apply to the ULB for refunding of the maximum amount. For publication fees lower than 2,000€ (incl. VAT), provide the ULB’s billing address at the end of this page right away.

  4. Under the DEAL contracts with the publishers Wiley, Springer Nature and Elsevier, all costs for Gold Open Access publications are covered in full.
Billing address of the ULB

For publishers and journals from other European countries (EU), please provide the VAT ID of MLU: