Open Access publishing with the American Society for Microbiology (ASM)
Articles from FWF-funded projects published in journals that are part of this agreement can be published open access free of charge until the end of 2027 at the latest.
Please note that the criteria listed below must be met. In addition, the following FWF requirements must be complied with:
- the article must be published with a CC BY licence
- the acknowledgement must contain the following text:
This research was funded in whole / 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.
or for German-language publications:
Diese Forschung wurde gänzlich / teilweise durch den Wissenschaftsfonds FWF finanziert [Grant-DOI]. Zum Zweck des freien Zugangs hat der:die Autor:in für jedwede akzeptierte Manuskriptversion, die sich aus dieser Einreichung ergibt, eine „Creative Commons Attribution CC BY“-Lizenz vergeben.
Please make sure to enter the grant DOI instead of the project number.
Since January 2025, university members with active employment contracts or students of the University of Innsbruck or the Medical University of Innsbruck have had the opportunity to publish open access free of charge in six journals of ASM.
Please note: Page charges no longer apply as of this year (2026)!
Which journals can researchers of the university publish in?
You can publish Open Access in six journals of ASM. You can find a list of titles here.
Who can publish open access?
Eligible are authors, who
- are "submitting corresponding authors" of the articles
- are university members with active employment contracts or students of the University of Innsbruck or the Medical University of Innsbruck
- use their institutional email address in the process of submission
- whose article was accepted in one of the six ASM journals
ATTENTION: It is not permitted to retrospectively change the corresponding author after peer review.
Procedure/Verification Process:
The publisher recognizes eligible authors by indicating the institution (affiliation) and the institutional email address during the submission process. Authors from a participating institution are guaranteed in any case that submitted articles can be published Open Access in the S2O model. Articles are published exclusively under a CC BY license.
If you have any questions, please contact
University and State Library of Tyrol | Electronic Resources Department
Lisa Hofer, tel: +43 (0) 512 507 / 25073
Erika Pörnbacher, tel: +43 (0) 512 507 / 25070
email: open-access@uibk.ac.at