• Skip navigation
  • Skip to navigation
  • Skip to the bottom
Simulate organization breadcrumb open Simulate organization breadcrumb close
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
  • Deutsch
  • UnivIS
  • Contacts and directions
  • Careers at FAU
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Navigation Navigation close
  • FAU
    • News
    • Welcome to FAU
    • Strategy and objectives
    • History and remembrance
    • Campus locations at FAU
    • Site development at FAU
    • Organisation and committees
    • Legal regulations
    • Finding your way around: contacts and directions
    • Faculties and organisational units
      • Faculties
      • Universitätsklinikum Erlangen
      • Central research institutions
      • Collaboration and partnerships
    Portal FAU
  • People
    • Students
    • Employees
    • Researchers
    • Alumni
    • Working at FAU
      • Jobs at FAU
      • Professorships
      • Energy technology and technical building services
      • Vocational training at FAU
      • Training and career development at FAU
    • Gender/Diversity/Family
    • New at FAU/Onboarding/Incoming
    • Offboarding/Outgoing
    Portal People
  • Education
    • Student orientation
    • Degree programmes
    • Application and enrolment
      • Application and enrolment for internationals
    • Advice and services
    • Study organisation
      • Terms from the university life
      • Semester dates
      • Re-registration and semester fees
      • Online platforms for organising your studies
      • Start of the semester
      • Degree programme and examination regulations (Link to our German website)
    • International
      • Information for international applicants
      • Going abroad
    • Student life
    • Teaching at FAU
      • Quality management in teaching and studying
    • Information for parents
    Portal Education
  • Research
    • Research profile
      • Key Research Priorities at FAU
      • Research Focus Areas at the Faculties
      • Rankings
    • Collaborative research
      • EU collaborative projects
      • DFG projects
      • Federal projects
      • Collaborative research in Bavaria
    • Outstanding individual research
      • Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize
      • Alexander von Humboldt Professorship
      • ERC grants
      • Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize
    • Research projects and partnerships
      • Max Planck Institutes
      • Fraunhofer Institutes
      • Helmholtz Institute Erlangen-Nürnberg
      • Energie Campus Nürnberg
      • Nuremberg Campus of Technology
      • Medical Valley
    • Welcome Centre for International Researchers
    • Graduate Centre
      • Doctoral degrees at FAU
      • Service for Young Academics
    • Services for researchers
      • Funding, advice and submitting applications
      • Publications and research data
      • Research information system
      • Science communication
      • FAUconnect
    • Responsible research
    Portal Research
  • Outreach
    • Events
    • Inventions and patents
      • Intellectual property (IP) policy of FAU
      • Service for inventors
    • Innovation and start-ups
      • Partnerships and collaborations
      • Innovation platforms and networks
      • Consulting services for start-up businesses
    • Professional development
    • Donations
      • FAU Innovation Fund
      • Deutschlandstipendium (Germany Scholarship)
    • FAU for companies and organisations
    • Science for citizens
    • FAU Shop
    • Press Office
    Portal Outreach
  • Corona-Info
  1. Home
  2. Graduate Centre
  3. Doctoral degree
  4. Publishing

Publishing

In page navigation: Graduate Centre
  • Doctoral degree
    • Your path to a doctoral degree
    • 'Promotion', PhD and MD
    • Doctoral regulations
    • Registering your doctoral project
    • Enrolment as a doctoral candidate
    • Offices of Doctoral Affairs
    • Monographic and cumulative theses
    • Good scientific practice
    • Publishing
    • International
    • Binational doctoral degrees
    • Funding your doctoral degree
    • Contacts at the faculties
    • General FAQs
  • Structured doctoral programmes
    • Arts and humanities
    • Sports science
    • Law, economics and social sciences
    • Mathematics and natural sciences
    • Medicine and health sciences
    • Engineering
    • EU projects
    • BayWISS Joint Academic Partnerships
    • FAUnetwork RTG
    • Graduate Centre services for doctoral degree programmes
    • Applying for a doctoral programme
  • For supervisors
    • Supervising doctoral procedures
    • Annual performance review with doctoral candidates
    • Supporting the habilitation procedure
    • Accepting doctoral candidates and guest researchers from non-EU states
    • FAUattract
  • Postdoctoral research and habilitation
    • Starting the postdoctoral phase
    • General conditions
    • Head of junior research group status at FAU
      • Our heads of junior research groups at FAU
      • Application procedure
    • Funding for postdoctoral researchers and habilitation candidates
    • Information on spending time abroad
    • Funding for female postdoctoral researchers
    • Professional development (seminars)
    • FAUpostdocday
    • FAUcoaching
    • ENET – the excellence track for high potentials
    • FAUprofund programme
  • W1 professorships (junior professorships)
    • General conditions
    • Continuing education
    • FAUnext career programme
      • Conditions of participation
      • Individual status review
      • Module People
      • Module Education
      • Module Research
      • Outreach module
      • Module Professorship as a career goal
      • Module: Career paths outside university
      • Module: Negotiation skills
      • Career coaching
    • Service centres
  • Seminars and events
    • Information about participation
    • Other events and seminars
  • Networks
  • Information and services from A to Z
  • Graduate Centre
    • Steering committee
    • Contact

Publishing

Publications

More information

  • Open access

Doctoral thesis

All doctoral theses completed as part of a doctoral research project at FAU must include an affiliation to the University (Section 2 (2) of the FAU General Doctoral Regulations (RPromO)).

Printing costs

Doctoral candidates can find that publishing their thesis entails considerable costs that are not easy to recover. Authors must usually pay part of the printing costs if a publication is very specialist and the target audience is small. This means that sales will be more difficult and it will not be possible to cover the full price of production through sales. In such cases, the publisher will require the author to pay towards the printing costs. This provides greater security for publishers when publishing academic texts.

Funding printing costs

Some third-party funding providers that fund projects also provide funding for costs related to publication of the results. To find out whether this is a possibility, please contact the funding provider directly. Some scholarship organisations and research training groups also provide funding for printing costs. It is most difficult to find funding for printing costs for doctoral candidates who are not already receiving some form of funding. For example, the DFG only provides funding for printing costs in exceptional cases. More information is available in the DFG’s guidelines on publication grants (German).

Some foundations provide funding for publications in certain subjects (German):

  • Geschwister Boehringer Ingelheim Stiftung für Geisteswissenschaften – humanities and social sciences
  • Franz-und-Eva-Rutzen-Stiftung – archaeology
  • Arbeitskreis Wirtschaft und Recht – commercial, company, business and labour law
  • Ilse und Dr. Alexander Mayer-Stiftung

You can also search for foundations that provide funding to cover publication costs in the Deutsches Stiftungszentrum database (German). It is also worth looking at our page with information on funding databases.

A small number of publishers fund printing costs, although this is sometimes linked to certain conditions.

  • VDK-Foerderfonds (German)

Each year the publisher Verlag Barbara Budrich issues a call for applications for doctoral theses. The entries are evaluated by a panel of specialists and selected theses are then published free of charge by Verlag Barbara Budrich in its ‘promotion’ series (German).

Publication options

Publishing doctoral theses with and without embargo notices

The RPromO sets out various possibilities for publishing theses (Section 15 RPromO). In addition to publishing the thesis in this way, it is of course extremely desirable for the results to be published in international scientific journals or other publications. Ideally, this should happen whilst you are still working on your doctoral thesis. There are a number of options available to you for dealing with these so-called ‘pre-prints’ in your doctoral thesis in accordance with the applicable subject or faculty doctoral regulations (FPromO). If you want to publish your results after completing your doctoral degree or have them protected by patent, it is recommended that you refrain from publishing your doctoral thesis straightaway. This is possible either by making the most of the deadlines stipulated in the doctoral regulations or by applying for an embargo notice for the publication of the doctoral thesis. Further information is available in an information sheet from the Graduate Centre.

Electronic publication

Another alternative is to publish your doctoral thesis in electronic form. If the doctoral regulations for your subject permit this option, you should take a look at OPUS FAU where you will find information on online publication at the University. Please also read the information on the University Library’s website.

Information on funding for open access publications is available on the open access page. It is also important to check the quality criteria for open access publishers beforehand.

FAU University Press

In addition to electronic publication on OPUS FAU as mentioned above, FAU University Press offers the possibility of having your publication printed in book form through its publishing service. FAU University Press provides support during all stages of the publication process, which is discussed in detail with the author, and commissions a print-on demand service, enabling small print runs to be produced at low cost. Further information on the publication process and who to contact is available on the FAU University Press website.

Doctoral theses that have received the distinction ‘summa cum laude’ can also be published in the ‘FAU Forschungen‘ series. Decisions on which theses to include in the series are made by the FAU University Press advisory board. Doctoral theses and other theses can also be published in the ‘FAU Studien’ series. To have your thesis published in this series you simply require a recommendation from the appropriate chair.

Print-on-demand services

Print-on-demand services produce small print runs. Additional copies can be printed at a later date if required. This keeps the publisher’s warehousing costs low and removes the uncertainty of whether enough sales will be generated, allowing books to be printed at considerably lower cost. The author is not usually required to pay any printing costs.

However, some conditions may be specified in the faculty doctoral regulations, such as with regard to the minimum number of copies or the period during which additional copies may be printed.

  • List of selected print-on-demand services (German)

VG-Wort

VG Wort (in German) is a copyright collective – a group of authors and publishers which engages in collective rights management. Its main task is to ensure that authors and publishers receive the best possible revenue from those required to pay fees and to pass this revenue on to those who are entitled to it with the least possible administrative work. It sets fixed fees for authors whose works can be used by third parties (e.g. through library loan).

Affiliation Guidelines

The link between publications and their authors with FAU is a decisive factor for many (international) rankings. Publications can only be assigned to the relevant databases at FAU if they are correctly affiliated.

All the information about affiliation as well as FAU’s Affiliation Guidelines is available on our website.

Articles

If you are planning to publish an article in English, the Language Service can provide support with translating or editing your work. The costs involved depend on the subject and scope of the text and are charged at an hourly rate according to the actual time required. Please contact the Language Service for a quote.

Contact for editing

Susanne Jäckle

Susanne Jäckle

Project Manager Language Service / President’s Office

Language Centre (SZ)
Sprachendienst

  • Phone number: +49 9131 85-29227
  • Email: susanne.jaeckle@fau.de



  • Press Office
  • Imprint
  • Privacy
  • Accessibility
  • Reporting errors
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Twitter
  • Xing
  • LinkedIn
  • YouTube
Up