[GOAL] Open Access Publishing Agreement between KEMÖ, FWF, and MDPI

[Nikoleta Kiapidou]

Dear all

We are delighted to announce the establishment of our Open Access 
publishing agreement with the Austrian Academic Library Consortium 
(KEMÖ) and the Austrian Science Fund (FWF). Through this national 
agreement, the Austrian institutions listed below as well as FWF will 
cover the Article Processing Charges (APC) of manuscripts published by 
eligible corresponding or funded authors in MDPI journals as long as 
central funds are available.

All participating institutions have gained access to the MDPI online 
submission system where they can find full article metadata and pricing 
information as well as Funder and Grant ID details for easy 
identification and additional transparency. At the same time eligible 
authors are benefited from an APC discount which comes at no cost for 
the institutions.

Eligible corresponding authors affiliated with the participating 
institutions are prompted to choose the corresponding IOAP when they 
submit an article via our online submission system. The program will be 
selected automatically if authors submit their papers using their 
institutional email address. To claim their discount, FWF-funded authors 
should choose the particular funder and add their Grant ID upon online 
submission of their manuscript. The institutions will then crosscheck 
the information and confirm the APC funding.

The full text of the agreement is openly available online at: 
http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2536007

For any questions about the agreement, please contact the KEMÖ 
Consortium at emedien at obvsg.at, FWF at Katharina.Rieck at fwf.ac.at, or the 
MDPI IOAP team at ioap at mdpi.com.

The Austrian institutions participating in this agreement are:

Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
University for Continuing Education Krems
University of Applied Sciences BFI Vienna
University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria
University of Applied Sciences Technikum Wien
Vorarlberg University of Applied Sciences
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)
Institute of Science and Technology Austria
MCI Management Center Innsbruck
University of Graz
University of Linz
University of Salzburg
Graz University of Technology
TU Wien
University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna
University of Vienna

This is our first collective agreement with a national library 
consortium, while the individual institutions around the world 
participating in our IOAP are now more than 500 - see details here: 
https://www.mdpi.com/about/ioap. We would be mostly interested in 
discussing about possible collaborations with other consortia, funders, 
and institutions in our mutual efforts to accelerate Open Access.

Kind regards,
Nikoleta Kiapidou

Institutional Open Access Program
MDPI / http://www.mdpi.com/
E-mail: nikoleta.kiapidou at mdpi.com