Open access agreement for authors at eligible Austrian institutions

Publish open access with Wiley

Corresponding authors affiliated with participating KEMÖ institutions may publish open access at no charge to the author. To qualify, articles must be published in a Wiley or Hindawi fully open access journal (submitted on or after 1 January 2024) or published open access in a Wiley hybrid journal (accepted on or after 1 January 2024).

Whilst the agreement is being finalised, authors can continue to order open access.

You can be confident that by choosing open access, your work will have the best chance to be read, cited, and shared. Read more about the advantages of publishing open access here.


Publishing gold open access:

  • Complies with funder or institution mandates
  • Allows you to retain copyright through a CC-BY license
  • Enables automatic deposit in PMC (when appropriate)



To be eligible:

  • Your manuscript must have been accepted for publication in a Wiley hybrid journal on or after 1 January 2024, or submitted to a Wiley or Hindawi fully open access journal on or after 1 January 2024
  • You must be the responsible corresponding authorThe responsible corresponding author is the author who manages the manuscript and correspondence during the publication process - from submission through publication. This author has the authority to act on behalf of all the co-authors and will also be the contact for inquiries after publication. who is affiliated with an eligible Austrian institution at the point of acceptance1
  • You must publish open access in a Wiley or Hindawi fully gold open access journal or in a Wiley hybrid journal that offers open access2
  • Your article must be primary research or a review article3
  • This agreement cannot be used to cover additional charges (e.g. cover, color, and page charges), which individual journals administer separately

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Additional information and questions

Please contact your university or library with questions.



1If you are no longer affiliated with an eligible Austrian institution at the point of acceptance of your paper, you do not qualify.


2If you don't order open access initially, your manuscript will be published under the traditional closed access model. You may order open access retroactively, but once your paper is published in Early View or In Issue online you are no longer eligible to publish at no charge.


3Other article types e.g. letters, editorials etc. are excluded.