Funding requirementTU WienFWF
Open access policyOpen access recommended, TU Wien Open Access PolicyOpen access mandatory, FWF Open Access Policy for Peer-Reviewed Publications, opens an external URL in a new window
Funding of articles in open access journals (Gold)
  • Journal must be listed in  DOAJ
  • Open access publication costs are not covered by external funders
  • Funding limit of 2000 EUR, higher costs can be assumed in individual cases

See Publication fund

No funding limit if an agreement with the publisher on open access journals exists, see Agreements with publishers on open access journals (Gold)

  • Journal must be listed in  DOAJ
  • No funding limit
Funding of articles in subscription-based journals (Hybrid)
  • Only within existing transformative agreements with publishers
  • No funding limit

See Transformative agreements with publishers (Hybrid)

  • Only within transformative agreements with publishers that were concluded before the end of 2024
  • No funding limit
Acknowledgement and copyright

Financing by TU Wien Bibliothek must be mentioned in the acknowledgements:

"The authors acknowledge TU Wien Bibliothek for financial support through its Open Access Funding Programme."

Submitted manuscripts must contain the following text:

"This research was funded in whole or in part by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) [grant DOI]. For open access purposes, the author has applied a CC BY public copyright license to any author accepted manuscript version arising from this submission."

Licence requirementNo licence type mandatory,  CC BY recommendedCC BY or equivalent open licence
Costs covered for page charges, colour charges and similarNoNo
Open access funding of publications in collective volumesNoYes