De Gruyter
Conditions for funding:
- The article’s corresponding author must be affiliated with the University of Graz when the article is accepted for publication and state this affiliation in the article (see the University of Graz affiliation guidelines for instructions on how to do this).
- The Open Access fees are not already covered by project funds or grants. As of 1st January 2024, funding which previously came directly from the FWF will now be handled by the University of Graz.
- Articles with University of Graz funding must include the University of Graz in the acknowledgements. (Recommended wording: "The authors acknowledge the financial support by the University of Graz." or "Dieser Artikel wurde durch finanzielle Unterstützung der Universität Graz Open Access publiziert.")
- Articles with FWF funding must include the FWF in the acknowledgements of the submitted version of the article using the following sentence: "This research was funded in whole, or in part, by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) [grant DOI]. For the purpose of open access, the author has applied a CC BY public copyright licence to any Author Accepted Manuscript version arising from this submission."
Eligible for funding:
- Journal: see title list. (If your chosen journal is not on the title list but is listed in the DOAJ, please contact the publication services team).
- Article type: Primary research and review articles.
- Article Processing Charges (APCs), but no additional charges (such as page charges, colour charges or submission fees).
Creative Commons licence: CC BY (Attention! CC BY is compulsory for articles with FWF funding.)
![©De Gruyter test ©De Gruyter](https://static.uni-graz.at/fileadmin/_files/_ub/zsdb/oa-abkommen/images/De-Gruyter-Logo.jpg)
Submission
To be identified as an eligible corresponding author by De Gruyter:
- list the University of Graz as the corresponding author’s affiliation in the article (note the affiliation guidelines).
- submit the article from your institutional e-mail address (i.e., @uni-graz.at or @edu.uni-graz.at).
Acceptance
- In the e-mail from De Gruyter: to have the University of Graz cover the publication costs, click on "pay charges now/raise an invoice" to go to the website.
- On the website:
- Register (if this is your first visit).
- Select Open Access ("Seek Funding from Universität Graz").
- Follow the steps on the website.
After publication
- The author is responsible for entering the article in the research portal (access via your UNIGRAZonline business card or the Research Portal of the University of Graz – see the intranet for information and instructions).
- Recommendation in accordance with the University of Graz Open Access policy: please make published articles available in the institutional repository unipub (secondary publication) as long as there is no severe legal or financial reason not to do so.
- Articles can be changed to Open Access at a later date. (Please contact ub.zeitschriften(at)uni-graz.at if you want to do this). Attention: articles with FWF funding cannot be changed to Open Access at a later date!