Open Access publishing in RSC journals
Austrian Science Fund-articles: informations below
Since January 2021, university members with active employment contracts or students of the University of Innsbruck are again eligible for free open access publishing with the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC).
Members of the University of Innsbruck can publish in almost 40 RSC hybrid journals free of charge and have access to over 50 of the publisher's scientific journals.
Which journals can researchers of the university publish in?
You can publish open access in about 40 RSC journals. A title list is available here.
Who can publish open access?
Eligible are authors, who
- are corresponding authors of the article
- are university members with active employment contracts or students of the University of Innsbruck
- use their institutional email address in the process of submission
- whose article was accepted in a RSC journal
- are publishing a peer reviewed article
ATTENTION: It is not permitted to retrospectively change the corresponding author after peer review.
Procedure/Verification Process:
Please use your institutional e-mail address for the submission process! The email domain is the only identifier that confirms your affiliation with the University of Innsbruck. The affiliation is verified by RSC.
The article is published with a Creative Commons licence (CC-BY or CC BY-NC).
FWF articles in this agreement [valid from 2024]:
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 above 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 or 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 oder 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.
If you have any questions, please contact
University and Regional Library of Tyrol | Electronic Resources Department
Lisa Hofer, tel: +43 (0) 512-507/31038
Erika Pörnbacher, tel: +43 (0) 512-507/2405
email: ulb-emedien@uibk.ac.at