Academy Open Access Publishing Fund

Deadline: Wednesday, Dec 31, 2025, 11:00am

The Academy of Fine Arts Vienna established a central Open Access publishing fund to support its members covering the OA costs for their peer-reviewed OA publications. Doctoral students and early career researchers are especially encouraged to apply.

Funding is available for up to 2,000 EUR per publication. The funds are awarded as OA cost subsidy and on a first-come, first-served basis.

Funding requirements

1) Research articles and contributions

What is covered

peer-reviewed research articles in OA journals; the journal must be listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ).
peer-reviewed contributions in OA edited collections; the entire collection must be published open access.

Corresponding author and affiliation

The corresponding author of the output is/was based at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (staff or student in accordance with UG 2002 §94) during their research activities from which the output arose. The publication contains their work, or parts of their work, related to the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.
Former staff members may apply until up to one year after their employment at the Academy has ended.
Former doctoral students are eligible to apply if the date of their thesis defense was no longer than two years ago.
The corresponding author states the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna as their (first) affiliation in the publication.

License

A CC BY license must be used for research articles and contributions.

Acknowledgement

The OA funding support by the Academy must be acknowledged in the publication. We recommend the following wording: “Open Access funding provided by the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.”

2) Scholarly book publications

What is covered

Peer-reviewed scholarly OA book publications (monograph, edited collection, conference proceedings).
Doctoral theses are eligible if a revised version of the thesis has been submitted and accepted for publication.
As a rule, retroactive OA publishing of scholarly book publications should be avoided. An embargo period is possible in exceptional cases but may not exceed 12 months.

Corresponding author und affiliation

The corresponding author of the output is/was based at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (staff or student) during their research activities from which the output arose (in accordance with UG 2002 §94). The publication contains their work, or parts of their work, related to the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.
Former staff members may apply until up to one year after their employment at the Academy has ended.
Former doctoral students are eligible to apply if the date of their thesis defense was no longer than two years ago.
The corresponding author states the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna as their (first) affiliation in the publication.

License

A CC BY license is recommended for scholarly book publications; a CC BY-NC or another Creative Commons license is possible.

Acknowledgement

The OA funding support by the Academy must be acknowledged in the publication. We recommend the following wording: “Open Access funding provided by the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.”

Note: The Art | Research | Support team reviews applications and decides on OA funding. OA costs can only be covered if all funding requirements are met and funds are available. There is no legal claim to funds.

Not eligible for funding

publications arising from FWF-funded projects (see OA funding through the FWF Open Access Block Grant)
publications for which OA costs are eligible and covered by an EU project or other third-party funded projects
OA costs for publications in subscription journals (hybrid OA)
other publication costs (e.g., page/overlength charges, color charges)

When to apply

If you want to inquire whether there is OA funding available for your publication, please send us an email at openaccess@akbild.ac.at.
We highly recommend applying for OA funding as soon as your manuscript has been accepted by the publisher.

Funding process

Fill out the application form (after login) for OA funding.
The Art | Research | Support team will review your application and inform you about the outcome.
In case we support your publication, we will provide you with
- a recommended wording to acknowledge the OA funding,
- information on the refund process.
The publisher sends the invoice to you (applicant/corresponding author); you pay the invoice directly to the publisher.
To receive a refund for the OA costs (up to 2,000 EUR), please send the following documents and information to openaccess@akbild.ac.at:
- publisher’s invoice
- confirmation of payment
- refund request form
- Digital Object Identifier (DOI) of publication (if available).
The appropriate amount will be transferred to the account specified in the refund request.
After publication, the University Library archives a digital copy of the research article/contribution in A...repository.

If you have any further questions about OA funding options and related conditions, please contact openaccess@akbild.ac.at.

For further information please contact Katharina Heinz (openaccess@akbild.ac.at, +43 1 58816-1116)

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