Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)

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 (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.
• Article type: research articles, article reviews, case reports, letters, communications and technical notes.
• 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.)