FÖRDERBEDINGUNGEN FÜR PUBLIKATIONSFONDS: OPEN ACCESS – GANZ ODER GAR NICHT?

Which funding conditions for Open Access publication funds are ad-visable or even necessary? Are such restrictions compatible with the goal of a complete transformation of the scholarly publishing system to Open Access? This article deals with a number of questions that were discussed in the course of the drafting of a guidance document on funding conditions for publication funds in the project “Austrian Transition to Open Access – AT2OA". It deals with con-troversial issues that originate from discipline-specific differences, the preference or discrimination of persons (or groups) for strategic reasons, as well as require-ments concerning licensing and publication types. Finally, it discusses which types of expenditure or Open Access funding models should be eligible for funding from a publication fund. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]