Elsevier (incl. Cell Press)
Please note that because the article quota for fully OA journals specified in the contract with Elsevier has been exceeded for 2025, articles in Elsevier Gold OA journals will now be invoiced at a 20% discount. Provided the funding conditions are met, the library can still cover the costs. You will need to submit an application for funding to the publication services to arrange this. If you receive an invoice, please do not pay it, but forward it to ub.publicationservices(at)uni-graz.at. From 2026, APCs will be covered by the agreement again, and no additional application will be required.
Conditions for funding:
- The corresponding author must be affiliated with the University of Graz when the article is accepted for publication and state this as their first 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 (except for FWF grants, which are 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. Mirror journals are also eligible, as well as selected hybrid journals from Cell Press (see Cell Press title list).
- Article type:
- in Gold journals: full-length articles and review articles.
- in hybrid journals incl. Cell Press: all article types.
- Article Processing Charges (APCs), but no additional charges (such as page charges, colour charges or submission fees).
Creative Commons licence: CC BY, CC BY-NC-ND (Attention! CC BY is compulsory for articles with FWF funding.)
To be identified as an eligible corresponding author by Elsevier:
- list the University of Graz as the corresponding author’s first 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).
On the Elsevier author dashboard: please select the University of Graz directly from the affiliation list provided.
On the Elsevier author dashboard:
- Sign the licence agreement provided by Elsevier.
- Choose a CC licence.
- Return the contract to Elsevier via the author dashboard.
- 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!