Freie Universität Berlin is strongly committed to the idea of Open Access and thus to the free accessibility of scientific knowledge. It offers extensive services, e.g. open publishing in Refubium, reimbursement or central payment of Open Access publication fees or advice on so-called "predatory publishers".

Central payment of Open Access publication fees

Find information on the FU's Open Access webpages, e.g. on whether Open Access publication fees can be paid centrally via the FU Publication Fund, via institutional memberships or via publishing agreements. The teams of the Earth Sciences Library and the Open Access team at the University Library can advise you on open publishing.

Open Access at the Department of Earth Sciences

The Open Science Dashboard of the Department of Earth Sciences shows the open access share of scientific journal articles for the three institutes of the Department of Earth Sciences over the period 2016 - 2023. It also shows which Creative Commons licences were used for the open access journal articles.

Furthermore, the open access share of non-journal-article output (books, book chapters, conference papers) is documented and it is shown which of these publications have a persistent identifier (PID).