Monitoring report: open access publications funding programme

The monitoring report (in German) on the German Research Foundation's (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG) Open Access Publication Costs funding programme for the funding year 2022 contains extensive data on the financially supported open access publications. Among other things, it provides information on the distribution of document and institution types, publishing houses and the publication model among the funded publications. The monitoring is based on information from the 76 funded institutions, which was evaluated and analysed by the data collection centre commissioned by the DFG: Forschungszentrum Jülich.

The report lists a total of 22,283 reported eligible publications. Rounding up the total amount of eligible publication costs results in 54 million euros. Within this total amount, the institutions reported over 10.5 million euros in funding. This corresponds to an average funding of 482 euros per publication. 73 per cent of the reported publications were published at universities and university hospitals. 46 per cent of the eligible publications were published in the gold open access model, 52 per cent in transformative agreements and 2 per cent as part of memberships.

At 22,086, the majority of the reported funded publications are journal publications. These were most frequently from subject areas in the life sciences with 42 per cent, followed by the natural sciences with 30 per cent. In third and fourth place are the humanities and social sciences and engineering sciences with only 13 per cent and 11 per cent respectively.

The report also lists 44 book publications in 22 publishing houses; 38 of them from the humanities and social sciences.