OA-Publishing at Springer

Contract Term: 01.01.2024–31.12.2026

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

Hybrid OA Journals.

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

Eligible Journals (PDF)

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

Book reviews are always excluded from funding.

• The corresponding author is affiliated with BOKU according to UG 2002 §94 at the time of acceptance.
• The Acknowledgment contains: "Open access funding provided by University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna (BOKU)" (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.“
  • For grant DOI see FWF Research Radar

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.

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.

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Information on the publisher's website