Researchers at the University of Münster can apply for funding from the university’s publication fund (Open Access Publication Fund) for their “genuine” open access publications.
The costs for all open access articles financed through this fund are allocated in the following year according to the distribution principles set by the Licensing Commission of the University of Münster among the University and State Library (ULB) and the faculties. The ULB covers one third of the costs up to 2,000 € per article, while the faculties are responsible for two thirds of the cost up to 2,000 €, as well as any additional costs per article.
Before applying for funding, please always first check whether your publication costs can be covered by your project funding (DFG, BMBF, EU, etc.) and/or your institution!
If your publication arises within the framework of a DFG-funded project, please always contact the Open Access Team by email first, so that it can be checked whether funding through the publication fund is possible.
All information regarding the Open Access Publication Fund of the University of Münster as well as instructions for submitting an application can be found HERE.
If you have any questions about the program or the application process, please contact the University of Münster Open Access Team openaccess@uni-muenster.de.

• BioMed Central is an STM (Science, Technology, and Medicine) publisher that is considered a pioneer of the open access model.
• BioOne is a global, non-profit project involving scientific societies, publishers, and libraries, aiming to provide access to critical, peer-reviewed research data in the fields of biology, ecology, and environmental sciences.
• Directory of Open Access Journals  provides free full-text access to scientific journals.
• Directory of Open Access Repositories (OpenDOAR) is a comprehensive directory of scientific open access repositories. Each OpenDOAR repository has been checked by project staff to verify the included information. This comprehensive approach does not rely on automated analysis and thus provides a quality-controlled list of repositories.
• Free Medical Journals was created to promote the free availability of full-text medical journals on the internet.
• OAIster is a collective catalog representing millions of records from open access resources, built by globally searching open-access collections using the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH).
• Open Access Infrastructure for Research in Europe (OpenAIRE) enables free and open access to documents from research projects funded by the EU.
• Open Access Journals Search Engine  allows searches across more than 3,600 open access journals (OAJ), covering almost all subject areas, from the humanities to the natural sciences.
• Open Science Directory is a research tool for open access journals and newspapers, including special programs for developing countries.
• Public Library of Science (PLoS) is a non-profit organization of scientists and doctors who are committed to making scientific and medical literature a freely available public resource worldwide.
• PubMed Central (PMC) is the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature.

Further information on the topic of Open Access from the University of Münster can also be found at this LINK.