Open Access Funding for FWF Projects

NEW:
Starting January 1, 2024, the handling of Open Access funding by the FWF will change: Instead of "Peer-Reviewed Publications", the FWF introduces the Open Access Block Grant. This means that the Open Access Team at TU Graz takes care of the processing of costs.

The FWF's "Peer-Reviewed Publications" program will be replaced by the Open Access Block Grant starting January 1, 2024. The block grant is annually disbursed to Austrian research institutions to support the financing of peer-reviewed Open Access publications. The research institutions monitor compliance with the guidelines of the FWF's Open Access Policy.

Henceforth, authors no longer need to apply directly to the FWF. 

Before submitting an article from FWF-funded projects, please contact the Open Access team at TU Graz (openaccess.bibliotheknoSpam@tugraz.at).

The following costs for peer-reviewed journal articles arising entirely or partially from FWF-funded projects will be covered:

a) Peer-reviewed publications with a CC BY license in DOAJ-listed Gold Open Access journals (fully open access).

b) Fees for bilateral as well as consortium-national transformative Open Access publishing agreements in which the library is involved. Publications under transformative Open Access agreements must be published with a CC BY license and without embargo period.

c) For edited volumes, the Open Access Block Grant can be applied to chapters. Prerequisite: the entire volume is licensed under CC BY.

The following costs are NOT funded by the OAP:

License fees for material from Closed Access publications.

The Open Access Block Grant can be used at any time after the project ends. (The three-year limit has been lifted.)

Requirements for funding are as follows:

1.    The following acknowledgment must be included in the publication upon submission:

"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 license to any Author Accepted Manuscript version arising from this submission."

For German-language publications:

„Diese Forschung wurde gänzlich oder teilweise durch den Wissenschaftsfonds FWF finanziert [Grant-DOI]. Zum Zweck des freien Zugangs hat der:die Autor:in für jedwede akzeptierte Manuskriptversion, die sich aus dieser Einreichung ergibt, eine „Creative Commons Attribution CC BY“-Lizenz vergeben.“

* Grant DOI: 10.55776/Project number (without space)

This acknowledgment ensures that publications in closed-access journals can be published under Green OA in the accepted manuscript version without an embargo, provided that the 
Rights Retention Statement is accepted and not overridden by other legal agreements with the publisher. 
For more information, see the Plan S Rights Retention Strategy.

2.    The corresponding authors must maintain affiliation with TU Graz.

The Research Radar replaces the previous Project Finder. Here you can search for FWF-funded projects.

For further information, please visit the FWF website:
Open-Access Block Grant
Program: "Peer-Reviewed Publications"
Program-specific FAQs
Research Radar