FWF Open Access Block Grant

Beginning January, 1^st 2024 the funding scheme in support of open access publications published within the scope of projects funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) changes.
Beginning on 01.01.2024, the FWF will no longer handle processing for scientific authors from BOKU. Processing will then be centrally handled by the University Library.  The FWF’s open access block grant will replace the previous FWF program “Peer-reviewed publications“.

FUNDING PROCEDURE (depending on the publication):

• Please contact the library by e-mail before submitting an FWF publication (ub.support(at)boku.ac.at).
• Without application: Article is published in a hybrid-journal which is included in one of the transformative agreements between BOKU and the publishers.
  Note: This option is only possible until the end of 2027, if BOKU has concluded an agreement with the publisher by the end of 2024!
• With application via application-form: For publications in open access journals outside of a transformative agreement.
  Please make sure that on the original billing statement/invoice the VAT ID of BOKU (ATU16285008) appears and that the university name ("Universität für Bodenkultur Wien" or "University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna") is written in the first line of the invoice address. You will find further information on the mandatory elements of an invoice on the corresponding page on the intranet (only German version available - Login necessary).

FUNDING CRITERIA:

• Corresponding Author must be affiliated to BOKU at the time of application according to UG 2002 §94.
• The article is published in an open access journal listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (https://doaj.org/) (DOAJ).
• Funding of a publication in a hybrid journal is only possible within a transformative agreement.
• The article is immediately published open access (without embargo).
• The publication is to be published under the Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-licence.
• A refund for already paid APCs is not possible.
• Only new submissions are eligible for funding.
• The Austrian Science Fund (FWF) must be listed in the acknowledgements of the publication in the exact format specified by the FWF:
  • „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.“
  • For publications in German: „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.“
• The article is to be deposited in an institutional or subject specific repository.
• Applicants are not legally entitled to funding.
• The authors are responsible for compliance with the Austrian Science Fund’s open access policy.

NOT ELIGIBLE FOR FUNDING:

• Other publication-related costs, such as page charges, colour charges, cover charges etc.
• Monographs, complete edited volumes and/or books.

The Guideline on the funding conditions of OA-publications resulting from FWF-projects has been decided by the Rectorate on January, 23rd 2024 and has been pulished in Mitteilungsblatt (Stück 10, 08.02.2024). 

In case of questions please contact ub.support(at)boku.ac.at.