Open Access publishing agreement: American Society for Microbiology (ASM)

Authors affiliated with the University of Vienna can publish Open Access without any additional charges in over 2,000 Springer journals under a transformative Open Access publishing agreement. Please find the agreement details here:
 

Validity period
1.1.2024–31.12.2026
Funding for

Articles in Subscribe to Open (S2O) Journals. Page charges and costs for supplemental material are covered by the agreement; there are no publication charges (APCs) in this S2O model.

For the publisher's open access journals an application must be submitted.

Note: Use our Journal Eligibility Check to find out if OA publishing in your desired journal can be funded by the University of Vienna.

Funding requirements
  • The "corresponding author" (or co-author) of the article is affiliated1) with the University of Vienna on the date of submission or acceptance.
  • The "corresponding author"/co-author states "University of Vienna" as their affiliation or as one of their affiliations in the article.
  • Article types covered: research article, case report, brief report, review article, rapid communication
  • The following applies to articles resulting from EU projects: funding can currently be provided by the University of Vienna (sufficient remaining articles available).

FWF projects: OA funding processed by UniVie. Additional requirements:

  • Required licence: CC BY
  • The following passage must be included in all publications at submission:
    This research was funded in whole or in part by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) [grant DOI]. For open access purposes, the author has applied a CC BY public copyright license to any author accepted manuscript version arising from this submission.
Invoicing
No invoicing, OA costs fully covered by publishing agreement.
Author workflow

The publisher recognises eligible authors and informs them accordingly after acceptance. The affiliation of the "corresponding author" to the University of Vienna will be checked by the Open Access Office.

Publisher's infopublisher website
Consortium infoKEMÖ website

 
1)
University affiliates are defined in UG 2002 §94. Please note that "Research Fellows" and other "Fremdpersonal" are no University affiliates according to UG 2002 and are therefore not eligible for funding. Should you be a research grant holder please provide confirmation to that effect via e-mail.