Springer
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 (Note: Nature and BMC journals are not part of the agreement!). If your chosen journal is not included in the title list but is listed in the DOAJ, please contact the publication services team.
- Article type: original paper, review paper, brief communication and continuing education.
- Article Processing Charges (APCs), but no additional charges (such as page charges, colour charges or submission fees).
Creative Commons licence: CC BY and CC BY-NC (Attention: CC BY is compulsory for articles with FWF funding).
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Submission
To be identified as an eligible corresponding author by Springer:
- list the University of Graz as (one of) your affiliation(s) 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
The corresponding author uses the online form "My Publication" to agree to Open Access publication.
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.
- Unfortunately, it is not possible to change the article to Open Access at a later date.