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: BMC/SpingerOpen Gold OA Journals are not included in the agreement. For publishing in selected Nature Hybrid OA Journals see the publishing agreement with Nature.

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 author¹ is a member of 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.“
  • For grant DOI see FWF Research Radar

¹The author corresponding with the publisher.

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, open access publishing via the agreement is proposed to the author and the selection only needs to be confirmed.

The library reviews the request.

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