Open Access Publishing at FH Upper Austria

Authors of the University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria can publish Open Access in the journals, magazines and proceedings of the provider without additional costs due to a publishing agreement with the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).

Requirements:

The corresponding author is a member of the UAS Upper Austria at the time of submission and acceptance.

Authors must use the institutional e-mail address during the submission process so that the publisher can recognize eligible authors.

The "corresponding author" names the "University of applied Sciences Upper Austria" as an affiliation in the article.

The following article types are included in the agreement

Journal: interview, note, research-article, review-article, short paper, survey, technical-note, tutorial

Magazine: case-study, interview, research-article, review-article

Proceeding: research-article, short-paper, technical-note, tutorial

List of ACM publication media

As part of the Open Access agreement with Elsevier, authors of the University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria can publish Open Access in *hybrid journals of the publisher without additional costs. You can check which journals are included in the agreement here.

Important for the submission process:

Contribution author is a member of the FH Upper Austria

Affiliation selection: University of applied sciences upper austria

After acceptance (article acceptance for publication), select the Open Access option and a Creative Commons license in the Author Dashboard. The publisher contacts the library of the University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria, which checks the affiliation of the contributing author to the University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria.

For publications in Elsevier Gold Journals, please contact Michaela Fehringer.

* Applies to publications with submission date from 01.01.2020 - 31.12.2023

Since 2017, all articles by Austrian authors accepted by Emerald can be published Open Access in the journals on this list - at no additional cost to the institution. The author only has to agree to OA publication with a cc-by license.

The University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria has concluded an agreement with the open access publisher Frontiers. If the costs are covered by the University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria, a 10% discount on the article processing charge will be applied.

Please indicate/select University of applied sciences upper austria as affiliation when submitting an article (assuming corrersponding authorship). For all authors who would like to submit an article to Frontiers journals, I recommend discussing in advance with the respective R&D department or the project leader whether the costs for the article will be covered!

From November 30, 2021 to December 31, 2024, members of the FH Upper Austria have the opportunity to publish open access at IEEE free of charge.

Members of the FH Upper Austria can publish open access in around 20 Gold OA journals and 158 hybrid journals from IEEE free of charge and have access to the publisher's scientific journals.

In which journals can academics at the FH Upper Austria publish?

You can publish open access in around 20 gold OA journals and 158 hybrid journals from IEEE. You can find a list of titles here.

Who can publish Open Access?

Eligible for funding are authors who:

1. are the corresponding author of the article and belong to the FH Upper Austria
2. use the institutional email address during the submission process
3. whose article was accepted in a journal by IEEE
4. publish a peer reviewed article

ATTENTION: a subsequent change of the corresponding author after the peer review is not permitted.

Procedure / verification process:

When submitting the article, indicate that you belong to the University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria. The affiliation of authors to the FH Upper Austria is recognized by specifying the institution and using the institutional email domain.

The membership / affiliation is verified by IEEE and the FH Upper Austria.

The article is published under a Creative Commons license.

The consortium agreement with the International Water Association (IWA) came into force on January 1st, 2019. This was concluded between the publisher and the eight paying KEMÖ (Kooperation E-Medien Österreich) member institutions. It includes access to the publishing portfolio for all KEMÖ members, as well as the waiver of the APC fee for affiliated authors of all KEMÖ institutions.

Authors of the FH Upper Austria will be waived the APC fee within the framework of the agreement. The OA workflow is structured as follows:

• To be able to submit an article to IWA, the authors must create a personalized account and provide their institutional email address
• The affiliation must be indicated during the submission of the article
• Based on these two parameters, the publisher identifies the authors' affiliation to the respective institution

The FH Upper Austria has an agreement with the academic open access publisher MDPI, which grants our authors a 20 % discount on the article processing charge. The discount applies to accepted articles. Employees and employees who are the corresponding author or co-author of the article.

More information for authors on publishing at MDPI can be found here: http://www.mdpi.com/authors

MDPI Open Access Journals A-Z: http://www.mdpi.com/about/journals

The publisher SAGE and the library consortium in Austria have concluded a new Read&Publish agreement with a term from 2023 to 2025. Corresponding Authors of the FH Upper Austria can publish accepted articles Open Access in the hybrid journals of the journal package HSS without having to pay APCs. The following article types are included: Original Research Papers, Review Papers, Brief Communications, Short Reports, Case Reports.

Participating journals can be found in the following list.

Free publishing in Springer OpenChoice Journals

The members of the KEMÖ cooperation (Kooperation E-Medien Österreich) and the FWF (Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung) have agreed on the pioneering license model "Springer Compact". This gives Austrian scholars access to more than 2,000 subscription journals and enables Austrian authors to publish open access in subscription journals free of charge.

To be able to publish Open Access free of charge within the scope of this license model, the following conditions must be met:

• You are a member of the FH Upper Austria
• You act as the "corresponding author"
• Springer offers the journal in which your article is to be published as a Springer OpenChoice Journal
• The following article types are supported: OriginalPaper, ReviewPaper, BriefCommunication or ContinuingEducation

If the article is accepted, the “corresponding author” will be asked to identify themself as belonging to the University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria in the Springer “My Publication” tool and to agree to the open access publication under a Creative Commons license (CC-By). Please use your institutional email address to facilitate the verification of the affiliation.

The affiliation to the Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences is checked, the article is approved and the publication process at Springer continues.

As of 2017, authors from the FH Upper Austria can publish their articles accepted by the T&F review process at discounted conditions as OpenAccess publications. There is a 30 % discount on the Article Processing Fee (APC). The journals on this list are available for this agreement.

We recommend authors from the FH Upper Austria to contact Michaela.fehringer@fh-linz.at regarding OA publications at T&F.

Employees and students at the FH Upper Austria can publish accepted articles (subject to corresponding authorship, article type: Primary Research / Review) in Wiley Hybrid Journals in Open Access format until 2023. The publication costs (APC) are covered by the library license.

The publisher offers the open access option for the publication process. You can see the exact process here.