Sage Journals open access

Austrian Academic Libraries Consortium (KEMÖ)

Agreement

Sage has an agreement with Austrian Academic Libraries Consortium (KEMÖ) to assist with open access article processing charges (APCs) for eligible authors.

To qualify for the agreement, the corresponding author must be affiliated with an institution that is part of the Austrian Academic Libraries Consortium (KEMÖ) agreement and have an accepted article in an eligible journal that enters production between January 01, 2023 through to December 31, 2026.

Publish open access in a subscription journal
As a corresponding author you can publish open access in your choice of 900+ subscription journals offering hybrid open access from either the Sage Premier 2026 package, the Sage Humanities & Social Sciences 2026 package, or the Sage Science, Technology and Medicine 2026 package free of charge, with no APC to pay. Please view the participating member institution list for more information.

*Authors affiliated with FHWien of WKW can publish open access in the Sage Humanities & Social Sciences 2026 at a highly discounted rate of £200 GBP.

Publish in a gold open access journal
As a corresponding author you can publish your article in a gold open access journal with a 20% discount.

Charges other than the author APC may still apply, please refer to individual journal submission guidelines.

The agreement is open to corresponding authors affiliated with Austrian Academic Libraries Consortium (KEMÖ) institutional members.

Eligible journals

Visit the Sage Journals website to discover the right journal for your research, then use the lists below to check whether your chosen journal is one of the 900+ Sage journals that offer free or discounted open access publishing as part of the Austrian Academic Libraries Consortium agreement.

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