Publishing Agreement Springer - Options and Funding Criteria
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Key Data

Contract Term: 01.01.2024–31.12.2026

Limited contingent of articles. “First come, first served” applies.

Eligible Journals

Hybrid OA Journals.

Attention: Nature Journals and BMC/SpingerOpen Gold OA Journals are not included in the agreement.

Eligible Journals (PDF)

Eligible Article Types

Original Paper (Original Research, Original Article, Original Paper, Research Paper), Review Paper, Brief Communication, Continuing Education.

Book reviews are always excluded from funding.

Funding Criteria
  • The corresponding author is affiliated with BOKU according to UG 2002 §94 at the time of acceptance and states “BOKU University” as their affiliation (see latest Affiliation Policy, published 17.04.2025).
  • The Acknowledgment contains: "Open access funding provided by BOKU University" (inserted automatically).

The following also applies to FWF articles:

  • CC BY 4.0 License
  • The Acknowledgment contains: „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.“
Available Licences

CC BY 4.0, CC BY-NC 4.0.

The library recommends choosing the CC BY 4.0 license, as it best corresponds to the Open Access ideal. Publications from FWF projects must always use this license.

Workflow

Authors are assigned to the university by specifying BOKU as an affiliation, using their institutional e-mail address or accessing the dashboard from the corresponding IP range.

If the institutional assignment is correct, the open access publication is proposed to the author via the agreement and the selection only needs to be confirmed.

The library reviews the request.

Additional CostsColor charges for online articles are covered by the agreement; color charges for additional print versions of the article are not covered. Any page charges, submission fees or similar are not covered.
Further Information

Springer at KEMÖ

Information on the publisher's website