• Research funders increasingly expect scientific publications made possible by third-party funding to be labelled with standardised funding acknowledgements.
• Unlike an informal acknowledgement in the foreword of a publication, for example, the use of a standardised funding acknowledgement officially documents the funding.
• The funding acknowledgement also documents the eligibility of the research on which the publication is based. This is particularly important as bibliographic databases such as Web of Science incorporate existing funding acknowledgements into the publication metadata.
• Funding acknowledgements support scientific reputation management, as the performance of researchers and institutions is also measured by their success in acquiring third-party funding.
• In addition, funding acknowledgements are an important component of open science and important for monitoring publication costs at Freie Universität.
• To ensure that a correct attribution of author, work, funding and university is possible, researchers are requested to provide their publications with clear affiliation information in accordance with the affiliation guidelines of Freie Universität Berlin.

• • There are basically two types of funding acknowledgements:
  1. Research funding acknowledgements: This type clarifies the project and funding context in which a research contribution was produced.
  2. Publication funding acknowledgements: This type discloses the financial support the publication itself has received, e.g., from institutional publication funds, printing cost subsidies from foundations or publication grants from the German Research Foundation (DFG).
  • In any case, it is important for a funding acknowledgement that the requirements of the respective funding organisation are observed and that correct and complete information about the funding is provided.
  This ensures that funding details are correctly recorded in databases such as Web of Science and that error-free bibliometric analyses are possible.

• If your Open Access (OA) publication is funded by the OA Publication Fund of Freie Universität Berlin for journal articles or for books, please indicate the following in German-language publications:

For journals: Gefördert aus Open-Access-Mitteln der Freien Universität Berlin.

For monographs and edited volumes: Die Publikation wurde ermöglicht durch eine Ko-Finanzierung für Open-Access-Bücher der Freien Universität Berlin.

• For international publications, please use the following information:

For journals: Supported by Open Access funds of Freie Universität Berlin.

For monographs and edited volumes: This publication was financed in part by the open access fund for books of Freie Universität Berlin.

• Please note that the university name is not translated or abbreviated into other languages in accordance with the affiliation guidelines of Freie Universität Berlin.
• You can find out more about Open Access and the OA policy at Freie Universität Berlin here.

• Refubium is the institutional repository of Freie Universität Berlin. If you publish a document here that is the result of externally funded research, you should place a funding acknowledgement.
• When registering your academic publication in the repository, please indicate which funding organisation provided the funding, the project context in which the funding took place and the corresponding funding number. Suitable metadata fields are available for this entry.
• The submitted document itself should also contain a formal funding acknowledgement.
• If you have any questions about publishing in Refubium, please contact the editorial team of the document server: edocs@ub.fu-berlin.de.

If you enter your publication for the university bibliography via the SEP Publication Recording, as an employee of Freie Universität Berlin you have the option of providing precise information on the associated third-party funded project or funding:

• When entering ‘Search FU employees’: Transfer of a displayed cost centre
• Your third-party funded project is not displayed? Use the ‘Change’ button in the ‘Author data’ search mask to search for and accept the desired externally funded project (name as keyword ‘truncated’ with an asterisk)
  
  

• If you have any questions about publication recording in SEP, please contact the university bibliography team: unibib@ub.fu-berlin.de.

DFG-Funding

• The German Research Foundation (DFG) stipulates in its utilisation guidelines (Section 13.1) that publications based on DFG-funded research must be accompanied by a funding acknowledgement. The guidelines also regulate how the funding acknowledgement should be structured.

• The acknowledgement contains the following text in German or English:

German: Gefördert durch die Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) – [Projektnummer]

English: Funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation – [Projektnummer]

• The project number must also be given, separated from the reference text by a dash.
• If a publication is the result of several DFG projects, the project numbers of all projects involved must be stated and separated from each other by semicolons.
• The project number can either be taken from the letter of approval in which the DFG has notified the applicant that the proposed project has been accepted for funding or can be researched in the DFG project database GEPRIS.
• The funding acknowledgement can be preceded by the ‘DFG logo (funding)’ in a German or international version. Both logos can be found on the DFG website.

EU-Förderung 

• Requirements regarding the funding acknowledgement also apply to projects funded by the European Union (EU). The EU requirements apply to all dissemination and communication measures of the funded project as well as infrastructures set up, equipment acquired and results published as part of the project.
• The use of a reference text that expresses the scope of the EU funding is mandatory:

In the case of full EU funding: Funded by the European Union

In the case of partial EU funding: Co-funded by the European Union

• An EU emblem must also be placed to the left of the text - suitable templates can be found on the EU website.