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Funders and open access

Contact us: openaccess@akbild.ac.at

University Library
Andreas Ferus
+ 43 (1) 58816 - 2314

Art | Research | Support
Katharina Heinz
+ 43 (1) 58816 - 1116

FWF (Austrian Science Fund)

All scholarly peer-reviewed publications with FWF project funding must be:

  • freely available online
  • published under an open license
  • made freely available in an open access repository (see OpenDOAR)

In its open access policy, the FWF distinguishes between peer-reviewed publications (e.g., scholarly articles in journals, contributions to edited volumes), on the one hand, and peer-reviewed book publications (e.g., monographs), on the other:

1     scholarly articles, contributions to edited volumes

  • when to make freely available: upon publication
  • eligible manuscript versions: author accepted manuscript, final published version
  • open license: Creative Commons license CC BY
  • funding: Open Access Block Grant (managed by Art | Research | Support)
  • required acknowledgement statement:
    „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.“

2     book publications

Please note that open access costs are not eligible to be charged to FWF project funds.

A summary of what is required for open access funding through the FWF Open Access Block Grant can be found here.

Please also refer to our guidelines on Open access publishing.

EU – Horizon Europe

All scholarly peer-reviewed publications from Horizon Europe projects must be:

  • freely available online (no later than the date of publication)
  • published under an open license (usually a Creative Commons CC BY license)
  • made freely available in a trusted repository1

For monographs and other long-form texts, the Creative Commons licenses CC BY-NC, CC BY-ND, or CC BY-NC-ND are also permitted.

Examples of trusted repositories include:

You can further find suitable repositories for your publications and research data from EU projects in the Directory of Open Access Repositories and the Registry of Research Data Repositories.

Open access publishing costs are eligible for funding through EU project funds if

  • the work is a scholarly peer-reviewed publication
  • the work is the first digital edition in the case of open access books
  • the work is published in an open access journal or by an open access publisher
  • the relevant EU project has not yet been completed

Further information:

1 See EU Grants: AGA — Annotated Grant Agreement: V2.0 – 01.04.2025, p. 387f.

WWTF (Wiener Wissenschafts- und Technologiefonds)

All scholarly peer-reviewed publications resulting from WWTF projects must be:

  • freely accessible online at no cost
  • published under an open license (e.g., Creative Commons CC BY license)
  • made freely available in a suitable repository

Open access publishing costs must be factored in as part of the grant application and may be paid from the project budget during the project period. For publications appearing, or for which open access costs are due, after the project period, payments may be made from the project budget for up to 30 months after the project ended, provided that the grant funds have not been depleted. 

For details on open access requirements for WWTF-funded projects, see the WWTF Open Science Policy and regulations on publication costs (in German).

ÖAW (Austrian Academy of Sciences)

Open access publishing is recommended for projects funded by the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW).

For more details, see the ÖAW’s open access policy.