OA publishing in journals of Sage Publications
Austrian Science Fund-articles: informations below
Since January 2019, there is an improved service for university members with active employment contracts or students of the University of Innsbruck and the Medical University of Innsbruck to publish open access free of charge at SAGE. Members of both universities can publish in about 1,100 SAGE hybrid journals free of charge and have access to 1,100 scientific journals.
Which journals can scientists of the universities publish in?
You can publish open access in 1,100 SAGE journals that offer the open choice option. You can find a list of open choice journals here.
Who can publish open access?
Eligible are authors, who
- are 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
- whose articles were accepted by a journal that supports open choice
- are publishing an Original Paper, Review Paper, Brief Communication, Short Report or Case Report
ATTENTION: It is not permitted to retrospectively change the corresponding author after peer review.
Procedure/Verification Process:
Please indicate your affiliation with the University of Innsbruck or the Medical University of Innsbruck already when submitting your article. The verification of authors' affiliation with universities is done through the indication of the institution and the use of the institutional email domain.
The affiliation is verified by SAGE and the university/University Library.
The article is published under a Creative Commons licence.
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