Austrian Science Fund

Funder Information

Funder Name
  • Austrian Science Fund (FWF) [English]
  • Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung (FWF) [German]
Funder URLs
Identifiers
Country
Austria
Group Memberships

Requires Open Access Archiving

Requirement
Austrian Science Fund requires Open Access Archiving
What to archive
Peer-reviewed publications
Publication version
Author's final version
When to archive
At the date of publication
Permitted Embargo
12 months
Where to archive
  • Appropriate institutional repository
  • Appropriate disciplinary repository
  • Named repository
Named Repositories
Europe PMC http://europepmc.org/ (Required)

Requires Open Access Publishing

Requirement
Austrian Science Fund requires Open Access Publishing
Where to publish
  • as an article with immediate paid-for open access (Optional)
  • in a peer-reviewed open access journal (Optional)
OA Publishing Licence
CC BY [applies to all]
Conditions
Costs of open access publication may be reimbursed by this funder

General Open Access Policy

Notes
  • Costs for open access publishing can be reimbursed up to three years after the end of the project
  • If unable to comply, in the final project report, reasons must be explained to the Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
  • Research papers within the life sciences (or related topics) are required to make freely available in the fulltext repository Europe PMC.
  • Open Access Journals must be listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (http;//www.doaj.org/)
  • Journals offering Hybrid Open Access must be listed in Web of Science or Scopus
  • For projects approved after 1st November 2014, price caps per open access publication apply (see policy), and cost not relating to open access publication and no longer eligible for funding.
Policy Links
Open Access Policy for FWF-funded projects [Policy]: https://www.fwf.ac.at/en/research-funding/open-access-policy/

Requires Open Data Archiving

Requirement
Austrian Science Fund requires Open Data Archiving
Types of Data
Research Data
When to archive
Immediately after publication of results
Where to archive
  • Appropriate institutional repository (Optional )
  • Appropriate disciplinary repository (Optional )
Data Access Cost
Access provision must be free of charge.
Special Conditions
Where legally possible, Immediately after use if used in research publications, or if not used in publications, after 2 years after the project is finished., Should be deposited in a way that it can be cited and re-used without restrictions
Policy links
Open Access Policy for FWF-funded projects [Policy]: https://www.fwf.ac.at/en/research-funding/open-access-policy/

Record Information

ID
13
Date Created
16 November 2006 10:16:35 UTC
Last Modified
22 August 2022 14:45:27 UTC
URI
https://v2.sherpa.ac.uk/id/funder/13
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