Target group
Project leaders and staff members in all FWF projects of any discipline

Goals
Grants to cover the costs of peer-reviewed publications that result from projects supported by the FWF, up to a limit of three years after conclusion of the project

Requirements
For the following publishers, publication costs are transferred directly by the FWF with no charge payable by the authors (please click on the publisher’s name for more information):

• American Chemical Society (ACS)
• BMC (inkl. Springer Open)
• Frontiers
• Institute of Physics (IoP)
• MDPI
• Springer Nature – Agreement (pdf, 2.84MB) (© Springer Nature AG & Co. KGaA; The publication of this agreement is for informational purposes only and in no event may this agreement or any part thereof be used or copied by any person without permission.)
• Taylor & Francis – Agreement (pdf, 2.59MB) (© Taylor & Francis; The publication of this agreement is for informational purposes only and in no event may this agreement or any part thereof be used or copied by any person without permission.)
• SAGE
• Wiley (Hybrid Open Access journals and Gold Open Access journals )

In the case of publishing agreements, articles in which the FWF and the grant ID are mentioned should be identified by the publisher during the submission process and forwarded to the FWF for review of the guidelines for peer-reviewed publications (see application guidelines). In the case of BMC, please contact the FWF for the institutional membership code.

For all other publishers, the publication costs for immediate Open Access are remitted to the publishers by project leaders and then reimbursed to the project account by the FWF. In order to do so, the resources of all ongoing FWF projects can be used. If there is no ongoing FWF project, the research institutions should make an advance payment.

In any case, the FWF must be mentioned in the acknowledgements as follows: Austrian Science Fund (FWF): project number

Funding amounts
see application guidelines.

Applications
Accepted on a rolling basis

Grant decisions
by the FWF Board

Processing time
Approximately 4 to 8 weeks

Contact
publikationskosten(at)fwf.ac.at

Related Links
FWF Open Access Policy

Downloads
Application information