Open access publishing agreements

The FH JOANNEUM has negotiated a number of agreements for open access publishing. These read and publish agreements include open access journals as well as subscription journals with open access option.
If your article has been subsidised externally, please enquire, if the article processing charges (APCs) will also be funded by the funding agency.
Otherwise, you can make use of our open access cooperations which guarantee that affiliates of the FH JOANNEUM do not have to pay any publication fees as long as they meet the following requirements:

• The corresponding authors have to be affiliated with the FH JOANNEUM on the date set by the respective agreement (for details see particular agreement below).
• Create a personal account and use the e-mail address provided by the FH JOANNEUM.
• FH JOANNEUM should be listed as (at least one of your) affiliation(s).
• Submit the article from the data network of the FH JOANNEUM (within our IP-range).

Our ePUB publication server provides a collection of Open Access articles and papers by researchers from FH JOANNEUM. Many have been published under our publishing agreements.

ACM

The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) is focused on research and publishing in computer science and information technology.

Journals: Gold and Hybrid Open Access journals, magazines and proceedings
Article types: 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
Licenses: CC-BY 4.0, choose between NC, ND and SA
Authors eligible: At the date of submission and acceptance the corresponding author has to be affiliated with the FH JOANNEUM (active employment status).
Workflow: After acceptance please choose “Institutionally Paid Open Access / Permission Release Option” and a CC-license in the ACM author tool (eRights form). For more information about publishing with ACM, see the Information for Authors website.

Elsevier

Elsevier is a global information analytics business specializing in science and health.
Journals: Gold and/or Hybrid Open Access (without Cell Press and Lancet)
Journal selection: JournalFinder (match your preferred journal to the list linked above)
Article types: Hybrid: no restriction; Gold only Full Length Articles and Review Articles
Licenses: CC-BY 4.0, CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0
Authors eligible: At the date of acceptance the submitting corresponding author has to be affiliated with the FH JOANNEUM (active employment status).
Workflow: After acceptance please choose “FH JOANNEUM” as your institution and then the option to publish under this agreement. Your affiliation will be checked by the library. Details see Agreement.

Emerald

Emerald Publishing is a scholarly publisher in the fields of management and business.
Journals: Hybrid und Fully Open Access Journals 
Journal selection: Find a journal (match your preferred journal to the list linked above)
Article types: original research articles only
Licence: CC-BY 4.0
Authors eligible: On acceptance the corresponding author has to be affiliated with the FH JOANNEUM (active employment status).
Workflow: Upon submission, eligible authors will be informed of the agreement by Emerald. After acceptance, authors will be allocated a voucher and sent a licence agreement. For details see How to use my APC voucher or discount in a journal? (lower section).

IEEE

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) publishes in the fields of (electrical) engineering and computer science.

Journals: Hybrid and Gold Open Access Journals
Journal selection: Publication Recommender (match your preferred journal to the list linked above)
Article types: peer-reviewed articles
Licenses: CC-BY 4.0, CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0
Authors eligible: Authors must be the “primary corresponding author” and belong to FH JOANNEUM at the time of acceptance of the article in order to be eligible for funding.
Workflow: After acceptance, the article is transferred directly to the libraries’ dashboard, where it can be approved/rejected according to the funding criteria. At the same time, authors can choose in the IEEE tool whether they want open access or not. The author dashboard shows that there is an agreement with the institution The agreement only covers open access APCs (no page charges etc.) For details see IEEE’s website.

IWA

IWA Publishing is a leading international publisher of water, wastewater and environmental publications.
Journals: Hybrid and Diamond journals (except journals jointly published by Elsevier)
Article types: all
Licences: CC-BY 4.0, CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0
Authors eligible: At the date of submission the corresponding author has to be affiliated with the FH JOANNEUM.
Workflow: During the submission process authors use their institutional email address and state their institutional affiliation (FH JOANNEUM) to be recognised as eligible to publish open access. If the Open Access Charges for Gold journals are still not automatically set to zero, you must explicitly select ‘Apply discounts’ and enter the country/institution. For details see the publisher’s guidelines.

Springer

The open access agreement with Springer allows affiliates of the FH JOANNEUM to publish open access articles in one of over 2.000 subscription journals, with the article processing charges (APCs) already covered.
Journals: Hybrid Open Access-Journals
Journal selection: Journal Finder (match your preferred journal to the list linked above)
Article types: Original Paper, Review Paper, Brief Communication, Continuing Education
Licences: CC-BY 4.0, CC BY-NC 4.0
Authors eligible: On acceptance the corresponding author has to be affiliated with the FH JOANNEUM.
Workflow: Once the article has been accepted by the publisher, the corresponding author is sent a link to finalise the publishing agreement. The corresponding author selects the country of their own institution and is then guided through the authentication and finalisation of the publication, whereby the open access version is already listed based on the affiliation announced during the submission. In the final step, the corresponding author sees a summary including the selected open access version and approves the publication in open access (‘submit for approval’). For more details see the Springer website.

Further cooperations of the library

FH JOANNEUM is a member of Kooperation E-Medien Österreich (KEMÖ), which coordinates the acquisition, licensing and administration of electronic media and is also committed to Open Access in Austria and worldwide.
Library staff are also involved in various working groups on the subject of open access and publication services and are networked throughout Austria to further develop our services.

If you have any question, please contact us.