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OLEcon offers the opportunity to support sustainable funding of scholarly journals through a financial engagement in the consortium.
The funding round for 2025 started.
The following journals are part of the 2025 bundle:
You can find the product matrix with all important information as well as the order form here.
Information sessions about the consortium:
The information sessions about the consortium took place in September, you can read the presentation here.
The Open Library Economics journals are also supported proportionally by start-up funding from the ZBW – Leibniz Information Center for Economics and by project funds from the BMBF (Federal Ministry of Education and Research).
OLEcon journals are published in Diamond Open Access.
In order to ensure Open Access for the OLEcon journals in the long term, ZBW organises a funding consortium. You can support OLEcon with a financial commitment to the consortium.
ZBW organises the consortium. You can join or leave the consortium every year.
Subject: Financial Support
What’s my benefit if I support OLEcon financially?
With your financial contribution to OLEcon you support non-commercial, free-of-charge Open Access. You contribute to more bibliodiversity and help reduce inequalities in the publishing system. Diamond Open Access means that access is no longer restricted to people who belong to a financially strong institution. With your support you have a share in realising one of the key demands of current science policy: to support non-commercial, scholar-led publication outlets and infrastructures. Your contribution will be honoured quite directly: Your institution will be named as a supporter in the journals’ imprints and on the OLEcon website.
Who is responsible for the organisation of the consortium?
The ZBW manages the consortium and makes invoices to the supporters.
What is included in the financial contribution?
The financial contribution exclusively finances the OLEcon journals. Journals submit a cost budget during the OLEcon application procedure, from which results the amount of the required partial funding from the consortium. The ZBW bears the administrative costs of the consortium.
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