There are different strategies to implement Open Access:

Gold Open Access means the primary publication in an Open Access Journal.
Hybrid Open Access means to pay an extra fee for making individual articles in a subscription journal Open Access.
Green Open Access means the simultaneous or subsequent deposit of already reviewed and published publications in an open access online repository.
Diamond Open Access means that institutions run and finance Open Access journals where authors can publish free of charge.

The content of open access journals is available openly and free of charge online worldwide. The processes of these journals are comparable to traditional journals. As open access journals do not generate income from subscriptions, there are different models for financing. One option is article-based publication fees, so-called Article Processing Charges (APCs). The price for APCs depends on the journal in question

So-called „Hybrid Journals“ generally need to be paid for, usually through a subscription. They allow single articles to be published open access if the authors or their institution pays for it. This business model is considered questionable because publishers are accused of Double Dipping, invoicing the same service twice. For this reason this type of article fees are excluded from the Open Access Publication Support. BTU only supports this open access model in the framework of so-called transformative agreements, which are supposed to support publishers in their effort to transform their journal portfolio to Open Access.

 Green Open Access (also known as self archiving) refers to the secondary publication of a (publisher's) publication that is otherwise only available for a fee. The secondary publication takes place either simultaneously or with a time delay (6-24 months) on an institutional or disciplinary Open Access repository.
Most publishers and journals have different regulations on secondary publication rights and which version of the publication may be deposited. The open policy finderdirector provides an overview of what publishers and individual journals allow.

You can self archive your publications at the Digital Repository of the BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg.

The Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) published its Strategy for Open Access in Germany (in German) at the end of September 2016 and announced that it would include Open Access as a condition in its project funding.

You can find more detailed information in the BMBF’s Strategy Paper (in German).

The Open Access Strategy for Brandenburg was developed by a project group led by Prof. Ellen Euler, Professor for Open Access, Open Data, and Open Science at University of Applied Sciences Potsdam, funded by the Ministry of Sciences. The paper published in July 2019 describes how Open Access can be strengthened extensively in the coming years.

The Wissenschaftsrat (German Science and Humanities Council) gives extensive Recommendations for the Transformation of Scientific Publishing to Open Access (in German) (published in January 2022).

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