Open Access publishing agreement: Springer

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 subscription journals with Open Access option: Eligible Journals (PDF)

Notes: Gold journals ("SpringerOpen") are covered under the BMC/SpringerOpen agreement. Nature branded journals are not included in the agreement.

Funding requirements
  • The "corresponding author"1) of the article is affiliated2) with the University of Vienna on the date of acceptance.
  • The "corresponding author" states "University of Vienna" as their affiliation or as one of their affiliations in the article.
  • Article types covered: OriginalPaper, ReviewPaper, BriefCommunication oder ContinuingEducation. Book reviews are always excluded from funding.
  • 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.
Funding is only provided for Open Access (Article Processing Charges, APCs), not for any additional fees (e.g. colour charges, submission fees).
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.

For details, see FAQs for authors.

Publisher's infopublisher website
Consortium infoKEMÖ website

 
1) Only "corresponding authors" are eligible for funding. "Corresponding author" is the person the publisher is in contact with concerning the article and who is named as such in the publication itself. Co-authors, first authors or last authors are not eligible for funding unless they are also corresponding authors. The "corresponding author" principle is used internationally to determine which institution covers the charges in case an article is written by authors of different institutional backgrounds. It facilitates fair distribution of costs.

2) University affiliates are defined in UG 2002 §94. Should you be a research grant holder please provide confirmation to that effect via e-mail.