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To underline this basic principle, ISTA adopted and published its Open Access Policy February 15, 2014.
ISTA encourages its researchers to publish in Open Access journals and repositories. In order to support researchers with Open Access publications, we have compiled information on the ISTA Open Access Fund, Publisher Agreements, Funding Agencies, the Journal Checker Tool and self archiving on this page.

If you would like to go deeper into the Open Access topic, you can read about further reasons to go Open Access, the difference between Green and Gold Open Access or how to identify questionable Open Access journals:
Open Access in a nutshell

If there is anything you want to know about Open Access, but couldn´t find on these webpages, feel free to contact the ISTA Library.

On this site:

ISTA OA Fund

To foster Gold Open Access at ISTA, an Open Access Publishing Fund is available.

In order to be eligible for support, a publication has to be

created by an author affiliated to ISTA,
published in a Gold Open Access journal listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals,
- including a central payment agreement with Gold Open Access publisher Frontiers, MDPI and Biomed Central
already accepted for publication at the time of application for funding support,
the fund can only be applied if no other grant is available.

This Open Access Publishing Fund covers 50% of the charge.

Further information on the respective publishers can be found in the Publisher Agreements.

From 2024 onwards, the procedure is as follows:

Please forward the APC invoice to the library team instead of sending it to invoice.
The library team will check if the article is eligible for funding.
Then the library team will initiate the payment, splitting it correctly between the research group cost center and the ISTA OA fund.
In case of a Gold Open Access central payment agreement, the library receives a central invoice, pays it in advance, and contacts the research group.
If the APC invoice is paid beforehand by credit card, please send it to the library team as well including a short note. The library will then inform you about the correct cost center.

In case you need further details please contact the library team.

Publisher Agreements

Under certain circumstances the Open Access funding of your publication is provided by funding agencies like the FWF or the ISTA Open Access Fund.

Gold Open Access publisher agreements

Biomed Central

If publishing in one of Biomed Centrals Open Access journals authors affiliated to ISTA are eligible for a 10% discount to the list price for publishing Open Access.

Frontiers

Under the terms of the Austria Open Access Publishing Framework Agreement, the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) signed a Gold Open Access central payment agreement with Frontiers. This agreement covers a 10% discount to the list price for publishing Open Access.

Which requirements do I need to fulfill?
Eligible authors are corresponding authors of a given article who meet the funding criteria of ISTA.
If you have any questions, or want to check if your article is eligible, please contact the library team.

MDPI

If publishing in one of MDPIs Open Access journals corresponding authors affiliated to ISTA are eligible for a 20% discount to the list price. ISTA signed a Gold Open Access central payment agreement with this publisher.

Offsetting Hybrid publisher agreements

To avoid double dipping (charging both authors and subscibers for OA publishing) ISTA also signed several publisher agreements, which allow us to discount your article processing charges. In addition, the subscription costs will be reduced in the following year.

Taylor & Francis

Which requirements do I need to fulfill?
You need to be corresponding author of the accepted paper.

In which journals can I publish discounted at ISTA?
The publisher offers a 30 % discount on article processing charges in more than 2.300 regular (subscription) journals with Open Access option (“Open Select”) and more than 1.400 Gold Open Access Journals. The most current status of eligible journals is available through Taylor & Francis’ Open access cost finder.

What do I need to do?
You can apply for a refund of the article processing charges by using the ISTA OA Fund. Further details including the application form is to be found in the OA Fund guideline.

Read and publish agreements

In addition, ISTA Library negotiates agreements with publishers to enable Open Access publishing in Hybrid and Gold journals without additional cost for authors at ISTA. Some publishers grant a discount on APC’s for publications in a Gold Open Access Journal.

ACS Publications

In which journals can I publish for free at ISTA?
The agreement is valid for Hybrid and Gold ACS journals.

Which requirements do I need to fulfill?
You need to be corresponding author of the paper accepted by the publisher.

What do I need to do?
When submitting the paper, you must select ISTA from a dropdown menu and use your ISTA email address.
As soon as your paper has been accepted, you will receive an email from the publisher to select the open access option. Then a page appears where you select “Seek funding from …”. After confirmation by the institute/library, the paper will be made open with a CC-BY license.

For further assistance please contact the library team.

ACM

In which journals can I publish for free at ISTA?
The agreement is valid for Hybrid and Gold ACM Journals. For conference proceedings, when in doubt, check with ACM to verify if they are eligible.
ACM offers the following Creative Commons licenses:
CC BY by default, but licenses with the extensions “NC”, “ND” and “SA” are also possible.

Which requirements do I need to fulfill?
You have to be the corresponding author of the accepted paper and affiliated to ISTA.

Article types eligible for OA publishing under the agreement:
Journal: interview, note, research-article, review-article, short-paper, survey, technical-note, tutorial
Magazine: case-study, interview, research-article, review-article
Proceeding: research-article, short-paper, technical-note, tutorial

What do I need to do?
When submitting the publication, it is necessary to indicate the institute and to use the email domain of the institute.

AIP Publishing

In which journals can I publish for free at ISTA?
The agreement is valid for Hybrid AIP journals.

Which requirements do I need to fulfill?
You need to be corresponding author of the paper, affiliated to ISTA and accepted by the publisher between 01.01.2022 and 31.12.2024.

What do I need to do?
When submitting the paper, you have to identify yourself as an Eligible Author under the agreement by selecting ISTA during submission.
Open Access Articles are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License CC-BY.

Cambridge University Press

In which journals can I publish for free at ISTA?
The agreement is valid for Hybrid and Gold CUP 2023 full collection.

Which requirements do I need to fulfill?
You need to be corresponding author of the paper accepted by the publisher.

Article types eligible for OA publishing under the agreement: Research articles, Review articles and Rapid communication.

What do I need to do?
After acceptance of the paper you choose the OA-option. In this case, the possible assumption of the costs by ISTA is pointed out.
Cambridge University Press offers the following Creative Commons licences: CC-BY, CC-BY-NC-SA and CC-BY-NC-ND

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

In which journals can I publish for free at ISTA?
The agreement is valid for Genes & Development, Genome Research, RNA, Learning & Memory and Molecular Case Studies.

Which requirements do I need to fulfill?
Eligible authors are the corresponding author of Open Access Articles, affiliated to ISTA.

CSH offers the following Creative Commons licences: CC BY 4.0 and CC BY-NC 4.0

The Company of Biologists

In which journals can I publish for free at ISTA?
The agreement is valid for the hybrid journals Development, Journal of Cell Science, Journal of Experimental Biology.

Which requirements do I need to fulfill?
You have to be the corresponding author of the accepted paper.

What do I need to do?
Eligible Authors shall identify themselves as being eligible by using an appropriate institutional email address throughout the submission process.

Open Access Articles are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License CC-BY.

Elsevier

In which journals can I publish for free at ISTA?
The agreement is valid for
– core Hybrid Journals,
– Cell Press Hybrid Journals,
– fully Gold Journals and
– fully Gold Cell Press and The Lancet Journals.
Please check whether your preferred journal is included in the agreement:
https://agreements.journals.elsevier.com/austria-consortium
Elsevier offers the following Creative Commons licenses: CC-BY (compliant with funder rules!) and CC-BY-NC-ND

Which requirements do I need to fulfill?
You need to be corresponding author of the paper, affiliated to ISTA at acceptance date. The acceptance date of the article should be between 1st January 2024 and 31st December 2026. If there are multiple corresponding authors, only the submitting corresponding author is eligible.
Article types eligible for OA publishing in fully Gold Journals under the agreement: Full length articles and reviews.

What do I need to do?
After acceptance of the paper, you will receive an email from the publisher to select the Open Access option. During Elsevier’s journal workflow, the corresponding author must indicate the affiliation and the relevant research funding source(s).

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. (IEEE)

In which journals can I publish for free at ISTA?
The agreement is valid for Hybrid and Gold IEEE journals.

Which requirements do I need to fulfill?
You have to be the primary (submitting) corresponding author of the accepted paper and affiliated to ISTA.

IEEE offers the following Creative Commons licenses: CC-BY 4.0, CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0

International Water Association (IWA)

In which journals can I publish for free at ISTA?
The agreement is valid for gold and diamond IWA journals.

Which requirements do I need to fulfill?
You need to be corresponding author of the paper, affiliated to ISTA at submission date.

IWA offers the following Creative Commons licenses: CC-BY 4.0, CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0

IOP Publishing

In which journals can I publish discounted at ISTA?
The agreement enables to publish Open Access in Hybrid and Gold journals of IOP Publishing.

Which requirements do I need to fulfill?
You need to be corresponding author of the paper, affiliated to ISTA. Only one corresponding author is allowed.

Article types eligible for OA publishing: All original research and review type content (z.B. paper, special issue paper/article, review, letter, Note, Perspective, Short Communication, Viewpoint, Topical review, Topical issue article, Comment, Corrigendum, Addendum.)

Oxford University Press

The agreement is valid for Hybrid and Gold OUP journals. You can find a current list of eligible journals on the publisher’s website.

Which requirements do I need to fulfill?
You need to be corresponding author of the paper, affiliated to ISTA (short guideline).
Article types eligible for OA publishing under the agreement: a research article, review article, brief report, or case report
Articles in supplements are not considered to be eligible Articles.

Rockefeller University Press

In which journals can I publish for free at ISTA?
The agreement is valid for the three Hybrid Journals “Journal of Cell Biology”, “Journal of Experimental Medicine” and “Journal of General Physiology”.

Which requirements do I need to fulfill?
Eligible authors are the submitting corresponding author of Open Access Articles, affiliated to ISTA and are marked as corresponding author on the published article. Article types eligible for OA publishing under the agreement: Article, Brief Definitive, Report, Communication, Hypothesis, Methods and Approaches, Report, Spotlight, Technical Advances and Resources, and Tools.

Open Access Articles are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License CC-BY.

Royal Society London

In which journals can I publish for free at ISTA?
The agreement is valid for selected Hybrid and Gold Journals. All article types are included in this agreement. Open Access Articles are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License CC-BY.

Which requirements do I need to fulfill?
You must be the primary corresponding author.

What do I need to do?
At article submission, ISTA must be given as the affiliation in the article submission process.

Royal Society of Chemistry

The agreement is valid for Hybrid RSC journals.

Which requirements do I need to fulfill?
You have to be the primary corresponding author of the accepted paper and affiliated to ISTA.

What do I need to do?
Eligible Authors shall identify themselves as being eligible by using an appropriate institutional email address throughout the submission process.

RSC offers the following Creative Commons licenses: CC-BY 4.0, CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0

Springer (without Nature journals)

In which journals can I publish for free at ISTA?
You can publish your article Open Access – at no cost to you – in about 2,000 Springer Hybrid journals.
Check the Springer Open Choice Hybrid journal list if the journal you want to publish in is included.

Which requirements do I need to fulfill?
You have to be the corresponding author of the accepted paper and affiliated to ISTA at acceptance date (Information for authors).

What do I need to do?
As soon as an article has been accepted, corresponding authors are asked in the author dashboard (“MyPublication”) whether they wish to publish free Open Access. By default, the acceptance is selected.
Springer offers the following Creative Commons licences depending on Journal Policy: CC BY 4.0 and CC BY-NC 4.0

Wiley

In which journals can I publish for free at ISTA?
You can publish in Wiley and Hindawi Gold journals as well as in Wiley Hybrid journals.
The complete list of titles of the Hybrid journals is available at: https://authorservices.wiley.com/asset/Wiley-Journal-APCs-OnlineOpen.xlsx
The complete list of titles of the Gold journals is available at: https://authorservices.wiley.com/asset/Wiley-Journal-APCs-Open-Access.xlsx and https://www.hindawi.com/journals/.
The following article types are accepted: Case Study, Commentary, Data Article, Education, Lecture, Method and Protocol, Perspective, Practice and Policy, Rapid Publication, Research Article, Review Article, Short Communication, und Technical Note
Wiley offers the following Creative Commons licenses: CC-BY (compliant with funder rules!) CC BY-NC, CC BY-ND, CC BY-NC-ND.

Which requirements do I need to fulfill?
You only need to be the corresponding author or responsible corresponding author (if there is more than one) of the accepted paper:
The following applies to Wiley and Hindawi Gold journals: Date of submission (submitted on or after January 1, 2024)
The following applies to Wiley hybrid journals: Date of acceptance (accepted on or after January 1, 2024)

What do I need to do?
Please follow Wiley’s OnlineOpen instructions at the point of acceptance.
Further information about the agreement and the publication process (hybrid journals) is provided on the publishers website.

Funding Agencies on OA

FWF – Der Wissenschaftsfonds (Austrian Science Fund)

“As a signatory of the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities, the FWF is committed to advance sustained Open Access to scholarly publications and research data. To this end, the FWF requires and supports all project leaders and co-workers to make their research results freely available through the Internet.”

Read more about the Open Access Policy of the FWF and the ISTA-Guideline for Publications resulting from FWF projects.

The FWF provides additional funding for book publications. Read more about it on the FWF webpage.

EU Horizon Europe including ERC

According to the Grant Agreement (Annex 5, article 17), the grantees must ensure open access without any embargo to all peer-reviewed scientific publications and research data from Horizon Europe (HE) projects. The focus is on “gold” open access, “green” open access is still possible if you retain your copyrights for the Accepted Author Manuscripts. “Hybrid” open access (achieving open access in a closed journal by paying Article Process Charges (APCs) is possible but not eligible. For all details please check our ISTA Guideline for HE projects.

EU Horizon 2020 including ERC

“To increase the circulation and exploitation of knowledge, open access to scientific publications shall be ensured. Furthermore, open access to research data resulting from publicly funded research under Horizon 2020 should be promoted, taking into account constraints pertaining to privacy, national security and intellectual property.”

Read more in the regulation establishing Horizon 2020.

According to the Grant Agreement (Art. 29.2), the grantees must ensure open access to all peer-reviewed scientific publications resulting from H2020 projects. This can be done by providing “gold” or “green” open access. Specific steps are to be found in the ISTA-Guideline for Publications resulting from H2020 projects. The open access provisions apply to all types of H2020 projects – including ERC, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions and collaborative projects.

FP7 – Seventh Framework Program including ERC

“The European Commission is conducting a pilot initiative on open access to peer reviewed research articles in its Seventh Research Framework Program (FP7). In this pilot, open access to articles resulting from research funded in areas participating in the pilot should be provided within a specified time period. (…) This initiative (…) applies to the following areas:

Energy; Environment; Health; Information and Communication Technologies (Challenge 2: Cognitive Systems, Interaction, Robotics); Research Infrastructures (e-Infrastructures); Science in Society; Socio-economic Sciences and Humanities.

Grant agreements in these areas signed after the beginning of the open access pilot will contain a special clause requiring beneficiaries:

1. to deposit articles resulting from FP7 projects into an institutional or subject based repository;

2. to make their best efforts to ensure open access to these articles within six months (Energy, Environment, Health, Information and Communication Technologies, Research Infrastructures) or twelve months (Science in Society, Socio-economic Sciences and Humanities).”

Read more about the Open Access Pilot in FP7.

DFG – Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

“The DFG expects the research results funded by it to be published and to be made available, where possible, digitally and on the internet via open access. To achieve this, the contributions involved should either be deposited in discipline-specific or institutional electronic archives (repositories) following conventional publication, or should be published in a recognized peer-reviewed open access journal.”

You can find more information about publication of research findings in the Guidelines for the Use of Funds.

SNSF – Swiss National Science Foundation

“The SNSF requires grantees to provide open access to research results obtained with the help of SNSF grants (Article 44 Funding Regulations).“

Read more about Open Access at the SNSF in chapter 4 of “Regulations on information, valorisation and rights to research results”.

Wellcome Trust

“The Wellcome Trust (…) supports unrestricted access to the published output of research as a fundamental part of its charitable mission and a public benefit to be encouraged wherever possible.”

Specifically, the Wellcome Trust

• requires electronic copies of any research papers that have been accepted for publication in a peer-reviewed journal, and are supported in whole or in part by Wellcome Trust funding, to be made available through PubMed Central (PMC) and Europe PubMed Central (Europe PMC) as soon as possible and in any event within six months of the journal publisher’s official date of final publication

• encourages – and where it pays an open access fee, requires – authors and publishers to licence research papers using the Creative Commons Attribution licence (CC-BY)** so they may be freely copied and re-used (for example, for text- and data-mining purposes or creating a translation), provided that such uses are fully attributed.

Read the whole Open Access Policy of the Wellcome Trust.

cOAlition S Journal Checker Tool (JCT)

The Journal Checker Tool is designed to help authors publish in a Plan S compliant manner. By entering the journal, cOAlition S funding agency and institution, the tool displays those options available to authors to publish their publications Plan S compliant Open Access. You can also find more information about the tool here: https://www.coalition-s.org/blog/4-things-you-should-know-about-the-rrs-and-the-jct/

Self archiving at ISTA

An institutional repository is a digital long-term archiving system that offers members of research institutions and universities the opportunity to systematically record the results of their work, archive them permanently and make them available to the public free of charge and for an unlimited period of time.

ISTA also offers the possibility to archive all publications and published research data in our repository ISTA Research Explorer.

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