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Open Access Agreements
The open access agreement with the American Society for Microbiology enables Vetmeduni affiliated corresponding authors to publish open access articles at no cost in ASM Subscribe to Open journals.
Agreement term: 01.01.2025 - 31.12.2025
A list of included journals can be found here
Article types: all article types, except additions, corrections, editorials
License: CC-BY
Further criteria:
- You are the “corresponding author” of the article
- You are affiliated with Vetmeduni at the time the article is accepted for publication
- You list the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna as your affiliation in the article
- The article has been accepted for publication during the term of the agreement
- APC funding from alternative sources is not available – except the Austrian Science Fund (see below)
- The agreement only covers publication charges (APCs). Additional fees (such as page charges, supplemental fees, etc.) are not included
Use your Vetmeduni e-mail address (@vetmeduni.ac.at) when submitting an article to an eligible journal and provide further details of your affiliation with Vetmeduni during the submission process. Additionally, we recommend submitting the article within the university’s IP-range. This allows ASM to identify eligible Vetmeduni affiliated corresponding authors.
ASM will forward your article to the Vetmeduni Open Access Team for a final eligibility check. In case the Open Access Team approves the article, the Article Processing Charges (APC) will be completely covered by the agreement.
Please note:
In case ASM identifies you as eligible author, no further steps are required to publish the article under the conditions of this agreement.
Eligible articles published closed access during the term of this agreement can be converted to open access retrospectively – but only in case the publisher did not identify the corresponding author to be eligible for this agreement and the article is converted to open access in its publication year. This does not apply to publications resulting from FWF projects. Those must be made available in open access immediately upon publication!
Austrian Science Fund:
APCs for articles resulting from FWF projects can be covered by the agreement up until the end of 2026. Please adhere to the FWF’s Open Access Policy for Peer Reviewed Publications requirements:
- Enter the FWF project number in the journals submission system
- Assign a CC BY license to the article
- Add this funding information in the manuscript’s acknowledgements:
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.
More information:
The transformative open access agreement with the American Chemical Society enables Vetmeduni affiliated corresponding authors to publish open access articles at no cost in ACS Hybrid Open Access Journals and Gold Open Access Journals.
Agreement term: 01.01.2024 - 31.12.2026
A list of included journals can be found here
Article types: all article types, except additions, corrections, editorials
License: CC-BY
Further criteria:
- You are the “submitting corresponding author” of the article
- You are affiliated with Vetmeduni at the time the article is accepted for publication
- You list the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna as your affiliation in the article
- The article has been accepted for publication during the term of the agreement
- APC funding from alternative sources is not available – except the Austrian Science Fund (see below)
- The agreement only covers publication charges (APCs). Additional fees (such as page charges, supplemental fees, etc.) are not included.
Use your Vetmeduni e-mail address (@vetmeduni.ac.at) when submitting an article to an eligible journal and provide further details of your affiliation with Vetmeduni during the submission process. Additionally, we recommend submitting the article within the university’s IP-range. This allows ACS to identify eligible Vetmeduni affiliated corresponding authors.
ACS will forward your article to the Vetmeduni Open Access Team for a final eligibility check. In case the Open Access Team approves the article, the Article Processing Charges (APC) will be completely covered by the agreement.
Please note:
The corresponding author must agree with processing the publication under the conditions of the open access agreement, after the article was accepted for publication!”
Instructions: how to publish under a Read+Publish Agreement
Eligible articles published closed access during the term of this agreement can be converted to open access retrospectively – but only in case the publisher did not identify the corresponding author to be eligible for this agreement and the article is converted to open access in its publication year. This does not apply to publications resulting from FWF projects. Those must be made available in open access immediately upon publication!
Austrian Science Fund:
APCs for articles resulting from FWF projects can be covered by the agreement up until the end of 2026. Please adhere to the FWF’s Open Access Policy for Peer Reviewed Publications requirements:
- Enter the FWF project number in the journals submission system
- Assign a CC BY license to the article
- Add this funding information in the manuscript’s acknowledgements:
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.
More information:
The transformative open access agreement with Cambridge University Press enables Vetmeduni affiliated corresponding authors to publish open access articles at no cost in CUP Hybrid Open Access Journals and Gold Open Access Journals.
Agreement term: 01.01.2023 - 31.12.2025
A list of included journals can be found here
Article types: research articles, review articles, rapid communications, brief reports, case reports
License: CC-BY, CC BY-NC-SA, CC BY-NC-ND
Further criteria:
- You are the corresponding author of the article
- You are affiliated with Vetmeduni at the time the article is accepted for publication
- You list the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna as your affiliation in the article
- The article has been accepted for publication during the term of the agreement
- APC funding from alternative sources is not available – except the Austrian Science Fund (see below)
- The agreement only covers publication charges (APCs). Additional fees (such as page charges, supplemental fees, etc.) are not included
Use your Vetmeduni e-mail address (@vetmeduni.ac.at) when submitting an article to an eligible journal and provide further details of your affiliation with Vetmeduni during the submission process. Additionally, we recommend submitting the article within the university’s IP-range. This allows ACS to identify eligible Vetmeduni affiliated corresponding authors.
CUP will forward your article to the Vetmeduni Open Access Team for a final eligibility check. In case the Open Access Team approves the article, the Article Processing Charges (APC) will be completely covered by the agreement.
Please note:
The corresponding author must agree with processing the publication under the open access agreement, after the article was accepted for publication!
Instructions: An Author Guide to... Paying an Article Processing Charge (APC)
Eligible articles published closed access during the term of this agreement can be converted to open access retrospectively – but only in case the publisher did not identify the corresponding author to be eligible for this agreement and the article is converted to open access in its publication year. This does not apply to publications resulting from FWF projects. Those must be made available in open access immediately upon publication!
Austrian Science Fund:
APCs for articles resulting from FWF projects can be covered by the agreement up until the end of 2025. Please adhere to the FWF’s Open Access Policy for Peer Reviewed Publications requirements:
- Enter the FWF project number in the journals submission system
- Assign a CC BY license to the article
- Add this funding information in the manuscript’s acknowledgements:
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.
More information:
The transformative open access agreement with Elsevier enables Vetmeduni affiliated corresponding authors to publish open access articles at no cost in Elsevier, Cell Press and The Lancet Hybrid Open Access Journals and Gold Open Access Journals.
Agreement term: 01.01.2024 - 31.12.2026
A list of included Elsevier (hybrid and gold), Cell Press (gold) and The Lancet (gold) open access journals can be found here
A list of included Cell Press hybrid open access journals can be found here
Article types:
Hybrid Open Access Journals:
full length articles, review articles, case reports, data-in-brief, microarticles, original software publications, practice guidelines, protocols, replication studies, short communications, short surveys, video articles
Gold Open Access Journals:
full length articles, review articles
License: CC-BY, CC BY-NC-ND
Further criteria:
- You are the corresponding author of the article
- You are affiliated with Vetmeduni at the time the article is accepted for publication
- You list the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna as your affiliation in the article
- The article has been accepted for publication during the term of the agreement
- APC funding from alternative sources is not available – except the Austrian Science Fund (see below)
- The agreement only covers publication charges (APCs). Additional fees (such as page charges, supplemental fees, etc.) are not included.
Use your Vetmeduni e-mail address (@vetmeduni.ac.at) when submitting an article to an eligible journal and provide further details of your affiliation with Vetmeduni during the submission process. Additionally, we recommend submitting the article within the university’s IP-range. This allows Elsevier to identify eligible Vetmeduni affiliated corresponding authors.
Elsevier will forward your article to the Vetmeduni Open Access Team for a final eligibility check. In case the Open Access Team approves the article, the Article Processing Charges (APC) will be completely covered by the agreement.
Please note:
The corresponding author must agree with processing the publication under the open access agreement, after the article was accepted for publication!
Instructions: How do I Complete my publishing journey to publish gold open access
Austrian Science Fund:
APCs for articles resulting from FWF projects can be covered by the agreement up until the end of 2026. Please adhere to the FWF’s Open Access Policy for Peer Reviewed Publications requirements:
- Enter the FWF project number in the journals submission system
- Assign a CC BY license to the article
- Add this funding information in the manuscript’s acknowledgements:
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.
More information:
The open access agreement with Frontiers allows Vetmeduni affiliated corresponding authors to receive a 10% discount on the Article Processing Charge (APC) for articles in all Frontiers journals.
Agreement term: 01.03.2018 -
A list of included journals can be found here
Article types: all article types
License: CC-BY,
Further criteria:
- You are the corresponding author of the article
- You are affiliated with Vetmeduni at the time the article is submitted for publication
- You list the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna as your affiliation in the article
- The Article Processing Charge will be processed via Vetmeduni
Use your Vetmeduni e-mail address (@vetmeduni.ac.at) when submitting an article to an eligible journal and provide further details of your affiliation with Vetmeduni during the submission process. Additionally, we recommend submitting the article within the university’s IP-range. This allows Frontiers to identify eligible Vetmeduni affiliated corresponding authors.
Frontiers will forward your article to the Vetmeduni Open Access Team for a final eligibility check. In case the Open Access Team approves the article, a 10 % discount will be applied on the APC.
Please note:
The corresponding author must agree with processing the publication under the Open Access Agreement. To do so, choose “University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna” in the payment information section (“Frontiers institutional members”) during the submission process.
Invoicing: If the article is processed under the open access agreement, Frontiers will send the APC invoice to the Vetmeduni Open Access Team, which will settle the costs with the corresponding author. In case the article meets the funding requirements of the Vetmeduni Open Access Fund or the FWF Open Access Block Grant, the Vetmeduni Open Access Team will inform the corresponding author about the further procedure.
Austrian Science Fund:
In case the article and the journal meet the FWF’s Open Access Policy for Peer Reviewed Publications requirements, the APC can be covered by the FWF Open Access Block Grant.
- Enter the FWF project number in the journals submission system
- Assign a CC BY license to the article
- Add this funding information in the manuscript’s acknowledgements:
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.
More information:
The transformative open access agreement with the International Water Association enables Vetmeduni affiliated corresponding authors to publish open access articles at no cost in IWA Open Access Journals.
Agreement term: 01.01.2025 - 31.12.2027
A list of included journals can be found here
Article types: all article types
License: CC-BY, CC-BY-NC-ND
Further criteria:
- You are the corresponding author of the article
- You are affiliated with Vetmeduni at the time the article is submitted for publication
- You list the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna as your affiliation in the article
- The article has been accepted for publication during the term of the agreement
- APC funding from alternative sources is not available – except the Austrian Science Fund (see below)
- The agreement only covers publication charges (APCs). Additional fees (such as page charges, supplemental fees, etc.) are not included
Use your Vetmeduni e-mail address (@vetmeduni.ac.at) when submitting an article to an eligible journal and provide further details of your affiliation with Vetmeduni during the submission process. Additionally, we recommend submitting the article within the university’s IP-range. This allows IWA to identify eligible Vetmeduni affiliated corresponding authors.
Please note:
The corresponding author must agree with processing the publication under the Open Access Agreement.
Instructions: IWA: Institutional Waivers
Austrian Science Fund:
APCs for articles resulting from FWF projects can be covered by the agreement up until the end of 2025. Please adhere to the FWF’s Open Access Policy for Peer Reviewed Publications requirements:
- Enter the FWF project number in the journals submission system
- Assign a CC BY license to the article
- Add this funding information in the manuscript’s acknowledgements:
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.
More information:
The open access agreement with MDPI allows Vetmeduni affiliated corresponding authors to receive a 20% discount on the Article Processing Charge (APC) for articles in all MDPI journals.
Agreement term: 01.03.2018 -
A list of included journals can be found here
Article types: all article types
License: CC-BY
Further criteria:
- You are the corresponding author of the article
- You are affiliated with Vetmeduni at the time the article is submitted for publication
- You list the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna as your affiliation in the article
- The Article Processing Charge will be processed via Vetmeduni
Use your Vetmeduni e-mail address (@vetmeduni.ac.at) when submitting an article to an eligible journal and provide further details of your affiliation with Vetmeduni during the submission process. Additionally, we recommend submitting the article within the university’s IP-range. This allows MDPI to identify eligible Vetmeduni affiliated corresponding authors.
MDPI will forward your article to the Vetmeduni Open Access Team for a final eligibility check. In case the Open Access Team approves the article, a 20 % discount will be applied on the APC.
Please note:
The corresponding author must agree with processing the publication under the open access agreement. To do so select the “University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna” in the “Institutional Open Access Program” field at the end of the submission process.
Invoicing: If the article is processed under the open access agreement, MDPI will send the APC invoice to the Vetmeduni Open Access Team, which will settle the costs with the corresponding author. In case the article meets the funding requirements of the Vetmeduni Open Access Fund or the FWF Open Access Block Grant the Vetmeduni Open Access Team will inform the corresponding author about the further procedure.
Austrian Science Fund:
In case the article and the journal meet the FWF’s Open Access Policy for Peer Reviewed Publications requirements, the APC can be covered by the FWF Open Access Block Grant.
- Enter the FWF project number in the journals submission system
- Assign a CC BY license to the article
- Add this funding information in the manuscript’s acknowledgements:
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.
More information:
The transformative open access agreement with Springer enables Vetmeduni affiliated corresponding authors to publish open access articles at no cost in Nature branded Hybrid Open Access Journals.
Agreement term: 01.01.2025 - 31.12.2027
A list of included journals can be found here
Article types: original paper – analysis, article, letter, brief communication, registered report, resource, technical report
License: CC-BY
Further criteria:
- You are the “Corresponding Author” of the article
- You are affiliated with Vetmeduni at the time the article is accepted for publication
- You list the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna as your affiliation in the article
- The article has been accepted for publication during the term of the agreement
- APC funding from alternative sources is not available – except the Austrian Science Fund (see below)
- The agreement only covers publication charges (APCs). Additional fees (such as page charges, supplemental fees, etc.) are not included
Use your Vetmeduni e-mail address (@vetmeduni.ac.at) when submitting an article to an eligible journal and provide further details of your affiliation with Vetmeduni during the submission process. Additionally, we recommend submitting the article within the university’s IP-range. This allows Springer to identify eligible Vetmeduni affiliated corresponding authors.
Springer will forward your article to the Vetmeduni Open Access Team for a final eligibility check. In case the Open Access Team approves the article, the Article Processing Charges (APC) will be completely covered by the agreement.
Please note:
The corresponding author must agree with processing the publication under the conditions of the open access agreement, after the article was accepted for publication!”
Instructions: Read the author guide to learn more
NATURE Review journals are not included in this agreement.
Austrian Science Fund:
APCs for articles resulting from FWF projects can be covered by the agreement up until the end of 2027. Please adhere to the FWF’s Open Access Policy for Peer Reviewed Publications requirements:
- Enter the FWF project number in the journals submission system
- Assign a CC BY license to the article
- Add this funding information in the manuscript’s acknowledgements:
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.
More information:
The transformative open access agreement with Oxford University Press enables Vetmeduni affiliated corresponding authors to publish open access articles at no cost in OUP Hybrid Open Access Journals and Gold Open Access Journals.
Agreement term: 01.01.2024 - 31.12.2025
A list of included journals can be found here
Article types: research article, review article, brief report, case report
Further criteria:
- You are the corresponding author of the article
- You are affiliated with Vetmeduni at the time the article is accepted for publication
- You list the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna as your affiliation in the article
- The article has been accepted for publication during the term of the agreement
- APC funding from alternative sources is not available – except the Austrian Science Fund (see below)
- The agreement only covers publication charges (APCs). Additional fees (such as page charges, supplemental fees, etc.) are not included.
Use your Vetmeduni e-mail address (@vetmeduni.ac.at) when submitting an article to an eligible journal and provide further details of your affiliation with Vetmeduni during the submission process. Additionally, we recommend submitting the article within the university’s IP-range. This allows OUP to identify eligible Vetmeduni affiliated corresponding authors.
OUP will forward your article to the Vetmeduni Open Access Team for a final eligibility check. In case the Open Access Team approves the article, the Article Processing Charges (APC) will be completely covered by the agreement.
Please note:
The corresponding author must agree with processing the publication under the open access agreement, after the article was accepted for publication.
Instructions: Read & Publish Agreement Author Guide
Austrian Science Fund:
APCs for articles resulting from FWF projects can be covered by the agreement up until the end of 2026. Please adhere to the FWF’s Open Access Policy for Peer Reviewed Publications requirements:
- Enter the FWF project number in the journals submission system
- Assign a CC BY license to the article
- Add this funding information in the manuscript’s acknowledgements:
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.
More information:
The transformative open access agreement with Sage enables Vetmeduni affiliated corresponding authors to publish open access articles at no cost in Sage Hybrid Open Access Journals.
Furthermore, Vetmeduni affiliated corresponding authors receive a 20 % discount on the Article Processing Charge (APC) for articles published in Sage Gold Open Access Journals.
Agreement term: 01.01.2023 - 31.12.2025
A list of included hybrid open access journals can be found here
A list of included gold open access journals can be found here
Article types: article – this includes: original research papers, review papers, brief communications, short reports, case report
Further criteria:
- You are the corresponding author of the article
- You are affiliated with Vetmeduni at the time the article is accepted for publication
- You list the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna as your affiliation in the article
- The article has been accepted for publication during the term of the agreement
- Select “University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna” as your institution in the submission dashboard (“Edit author” / subfield “Institution”). Please do not enter any department, institute, or clinic affiliations.
- For Gold open access journals: The Article Processing Charge will be processed via Vetmeduni
- APC funding from alternative sources is not available – except the Austrian Science Fund (see below)
- The agreement only covers publication charges (APCs). Additional fees (such as page charges, supplemental fees, etc.) are not included.
Use your Vetmeduni e-mail address (@vetmeduni.ac.at) when submitting an article to an eligible journal and provide further details of your affiliation with Vetmeduni during the submission process. Additionally, we recommend submitting the article within the university’s IP-range. This allows Sage to identify eligible Vetmeduni affiliated corresponding authors.
Sage will forward your article to the Vetmeduni Open Access Team for a final eligibility check. In case the Open Access Team approves the article, the Article Processing Charges (APC) will either be completely covered by the agreement (Hybrid open access journals) or the 15% discount will be applied on the APC (Gold open access journals).
Please note:
The corresponding author must agree with processing the publication under the Open Access Agreement after the article was accepted for publication. Sage will inform the corresponding author about the options.
Invoicing for articles in Gold OA journals: If an article in a gold open access journal is processed under the open access agreement, Sage will send the APC invoice to the Vetmeduni Open Access Team, which will settle the costs with the corresponding author. In case the article meets the funding requirements of the Vetmeduni Open Access Fund or the FWF Open Access Block Grant, the Open Access Team will inform the corresponding author about the further procedure.
Eligible articles published closed access during the term of this agreement can be converted to open access retrospectively – but only in case the publisher did not identify the corresponding author to be eligible for this agreement and the article is converted to open access in its publication year. This does not apply to publications resulting from FWF projects. Those must be made available in open access immediately upon publication!
Austrian Science Fund:
APCs for articles resulting from FWF projects can be covered by the agreement up until the end of 2025. Please adhere to the FWF’s Open Access Policy for Peer Reviewed Publications requirements:
- Enter the FWF project number in the journals submission system
- Assign a CC BY license to the article
- Add this funding information in the manuscript’s acknowledgements:
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.
More information:
The transformative open access agreement with Springer enables Vetmeduni affiliated corresponding authors to publish open access articles at no cost in Springer Hybrid Open Access Journals.
Agreement term: 01.01.2024 - 31.12.2026
A list of included journals can be found here
Article types: original paper, review paper, brief communication, continuing education
Further criteria:
- You are the corresponding author of the article
- You are affiliated with Vetmeduni at the time the article is accepted for publication
- You list the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna as your affiliation in the article
- The article has been accepted for publication during the term of the agreement
- APC funding from alternative sources is not available – except the Austrian Science Fund (see below)
- The agreement only covers publication charges (APCs). Additional fees (such as page charges, supplemental fees, etc.) are not included.
Use your Vetmeduni e-mail address (@vetmeduni.ac.at) when submitting an article to an eligible journal and provide further details of your affiliation with Vetmeduni during the submission process. Additionally, we recommend submitting the article within the university’s IP-range. This allows Springer to identify eligible Vetmeduni affiliated corresponding authors.
Springer will forward your article to the Vetmeduni Open Access Team for a final eligibility check. In case the Open Access Team approves the article, the Article Processing Charges (APC) will be completely covered by the agreement.
Please note:
The corresponding author must agree with processing the publication under the Open Access Agreement, after the article was accepted for publication.
Instructions: Austria KEMÖ Transformative Agreement with Springer Nature
Austrian Science Fund:
APCs for articles resulting from FWF projects can be covered by the agreement up until the end of 2026. Please adhere to the FWF’s Open Access Policy for Peer Reviewed Publications requirements:
- Enter the FWF project number in the journals submission system
- Assign a CC BY license to the article
- Add this funding information in the manuscript’s acknowledgements:
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.
More information:
The transformative open access agreement with Taylor & Francis enables Vetmeduni affiliated corresponding authors to publish open access articles at no cost in T&F Hybrid Open Access Journals (Open Select) and Gold Open Access Journals.
Agreement term: 01.01.2024 - 31.12.2026
A list of included journals can be found here
Article types: all article types with peer review process
License: CC-BY, CC-BY-NC, CC-BY-NC-ND
Further criteria:
- You are the corresponding author of the article
- You are affiliated with Vetmeduni at the time the article is accepted for publication
- You list the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna as your affiliation in the article
- The article has been accepted for publication during the term of the agreement
- APC funding from alternative sources is not available – except the Austrian Science Fund (see below)
- The agreement only covers publication charges (APCs). Additional fees (such as page charges, supplemental fees, etc.) are not included.
Use your Vetmeduni e-mail address (@vetmeduni.ac.at) when submitting an article to an eligible journal and provide further details of your affiliation with Vetmeduni during the submission process. Furthermore, we recommend submitting your article within the university’s IP-range. This allows T&F to identify eligible Vetmeduni affiliated corresponding authors.
T&F will forward your article to the Vetmeduni Open Access Team for a final eligibility check. In case the Open Access Team approves the article, the Article Processing Charges (APC) will be completely covered by the agreement.
Please note:
The corresponding author must agree with processing the publication under the Open Access Agreement, after the article was accepted for publication. In the author dashboard the corresponding author can select whether or not he/she would like to publish open access with no APC being applied.
Austrian Science Fund:
APCs for articles resulting from FWF projects can be covered by the agreement up until the end of 2026. Please adhere to the FWF’s Open Access Policy for Peer Reviewed Publications requirements:
- Enter the FWF project number in the journals submission system
- Assign a CC BY license to the article
- Add this funding information in the manuscript’s acknowledgements:
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.
More information:
The transformative open access agreement with Wiley enables Vetmeduni affiliated corresponding authors to publish open access articles at no cost in Wiley Hybrid Open Access Journals and Gold Open Access Journals.
Agreement term: 01.01.2024 - 31.12.2026
A list of included journals can be found here
Article types: primary research articles, review articles
License: CC-BY, CC-BY-NC, CC-BY-NC-ND
Further criteria:
- You are the "corresponding author" of the article
- Hybrid open access journals: You are affiliated with Vetmeduni at the time the article is accepted for publication. The article has been accepted for publication during the term of the agreement.
- Gold open access journals: You are affiliated with Vetmeduni at the time the article is submitted for publication. The article has been submitted for publication during the term of the agreement.
- You list the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna as your affiliation in the article
- APC funding from alternative sources is not available – except the Austrian Science Fund (see below)
- The agreement only covers publication charges (APCs). Additional fees (such as page charges, supplemental fees, etc.) are not included.
Use your Vetmeduni e-mail address (@vetmeduni.ac.at) when submitting an article to an eligible journal and provide further details of your affiliation with Vetmeduni during the submission process. Additionally, we recommend submitting the article within the university’s IP-range. This allows Wiley to identify eligible Vetmeduni affiliated corresponding authors.
Wiley will forward your article to the Vetmeduni Open Access Team for a final eligibility check. In case the Open Access Team approves the article, the Article Processing Charges (APC) will be completely covered by the agreement.
Please note:
Hybrid open access journals: The corresponding author must agree with processing the publication under the open access agreement, after the article was accepted for publication.
Instructions: "Make your article open access within a hybrid* journal"
Gold open access journals: The corresponding author must agree with processing the publication under the open access agreement during the submission process.
Instructions: "Publishing Your Article in a Fully Open Access Journal"
Instructions: "Publishing your article in a fully open access journal with Hindawi"
Austrian Science Fund:
APCs for articles resulting from FWF projects can be covered by the agreement up until the end of 2026. Please adhere to the FWF’s Open Access Policy for Peer Reviewed Publications requirements:
- Enter the FWF project number in the journals submission system
- Assign a CC BY license to the article
- Add this funding information in the manuscript’s acknowledgements:
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.
More information:
Contact and information
For questions about the agreements, please contact the Open Access Team:
Martin Gundacker, Werner Hirschmugl
E-Mail: open.access@vetmeduni.ac.at