Publications From Third-Party Funded Projects

Publications funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation, DFG) must contain a reference to the support. This only applies if the manuscript is the result of third-party funded research (not to be confused with APC funding).
The reference should appear in the following form,

e.g. in English: „Funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft  (German Research Foundation, DFG) - project number(s)“.

Source: DFG, Verwendungsrichtlinien, 13.1
Further information on the DFG page on Funding Acknowledgements

 

Publications funded by the Bundesministerium für Forschung, Technologie und Raumfahrt (Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space, BMFTR) must contain the following reference on the cover page or in another clearly visible place:

„Das diesem Bericht zugrunde liegende Vorhaben wurde mit Mitteln des Bundesministeriums für Bildung und Forschung unter dem Förderkennzeichen ... gefördert. Die Verantwortung für den Inhalt dieser Veröffentlichung liegt bei der Autorin/beim Autor.“

In addition, the BMFTR logo with the addition "Funded by" must be clearly visible in publications in the area of public relations (for example on the Internet or at trade fairs).

Source: BMFTR, NABF, 5.2.2

Publications funded by the EU Commission under the Horizon Europe programme must refer to the support. To this end, the European flag and a written reference (in the respective national language) to the funding are provided for this purpose:

„Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or [name of the granting authority]. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.“

Source: EU Grants, AGA, ARTICLE 17

The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation, DFG) is calling on researchers to publish their research results in open access:

„Project results resulting from DFG-funded projects must be made available to the general public in an appropriate manner. [...] DFG funding recipients are requested to publish their project results in open access for the purpose of science-appropriate communication. The corresponding articles should either be published directly in quality-assured or professionally recognised open access journals or on open access platforms or, in addition to the publisher's publication, be placed in discipline-specific or institutional electronic archives (repositories), if possible without delay."

Source: DFG, Verwendungsrichtlinien, 13.1 / 13.2 (translated from German)

In its announcements of guidelines for funding projects, the Bundesministerium für Forschung, Technologie und Raumfahrt  (Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space, BMFTR) provides for publication under open access conditions - if not the gold road, then the green one:

„If the grant recipient publishes his results resulting from the research project as an article in a scientific journal, this should be done in such a way that the public is able to access the article electronically free of charge (open access). This can be achieved by publishing the article in an electronic journal that is accessible to the public free of charge. If the article does not initially appear in a journal that is electronically accessible to the public free of charge, the article should be made electronically accessible to the public free of charge (secondary publication), if necessary after a reasonable period of time (embargo period). In the case of secondary publication, the embargo period should not exceed twelve months. The BMFTR expressly welcomes the open access secondary publication of scientific monographs resulting from the project."

Example: BMFTR, Bekanntmachung, 6. Sonstige Zuwendungsbestimmungen (translated from German)

Beneficiaries of the EU Commission's Horizon Europe programme are obliged to make their peer-reviewed or published research contributions directly accessible via a repository under a CC licence (latest available version):

„The beneficiaries must ensure open access to peer-reviewed scientific publications relating to their results. In particular, they must ensure that:

• at the latest at the time of publication, a machine-readable electronic copy of the published version or the final peer-reviewed manuscript accepted for publication, is deposited in a trusted repository for scientific publications
• immediate open access is provided to the deposited publication via the repository, under the latest available version of the Creative Commons Attribution International Public Licence (CC BY) or a licence with equivalent rights; for monographs and other long-text formats, the licence may exclude commercial uses and derivative works (e.g. CC BY-NC, CC BY-ND) and
• information is given via the repository about any research output or any other tools and instruments needed to validate the conclusions of the scientific publication.

Beneficiaries (or authors) must retain sufficient intellectual property rights to comply with the open access requirements.“

Source: EU Grants, AGA, ARTICLE 17