The Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) and USI can provide financial support for publication expenses related to the Gold road to OA. Detailed information is available here: https://www.desk.usi.ch/en/node/3521.

Moreover, specific agreements regarding the price of APCs have been reached with some publishers. USI researchers that are corresponding authors of an article can profit from the following discount rates:

Publisher	Agreement description	Journals
ACM - Association for Computing Machinery	free APCs for all peer-reviewed articles	complete list
ACS - American Chemical Society	free APCs for Gold OA and Hybrid OA articles; capped at 177 articles accepted in 2024, and 216 accepted in 2025 at the national level. Attention: the quota of articles for 2024 has been reached.	complete list
BMJ Standard Collection	free APCs for 'Original Research' Hybrid OA articles; capped at 12 accepted articles at the national level in 2024	complete list
Cell Press	→ see Elsevier
Dove Press OA publisher	→ see Taylor&Francis
Elsevier	100% free APCs for Gold and Hybrid OA articles by the publishers Elsevier, Cell Press, and Lancet Journals	complete list
F1000 Research platform OA publisher	→ see Taylor&Francis
Frontiers OA publisher	free APCs for articles submitted in 2023, until exhaustion of the amount prepayed by USI	all journals Attention: only USI staff entitled to Gold Open Access reimbursement are allowed to publish within the agreement » see inclusion criteria
IEEE	free articles in all Gold OA journals; capped at the national level at 132 articles between 2022 and 2024. Warning: the quota of articles for 2024 has been reached.
John Benjamins	100% free APCs for Gold and Hybrid OA articles	all journals
Karger Journals	100% free APCs for Gold and Hybrid OA articles	complete list
Lancet Journals	→ see Elsevier
MDPI OA publisher	20% discount on APCs	all
Nature	100% free APCs for Gold and Hybrid OA articles. National quota for 2024: 86 articles Warning: the quota of articles for 2024 has been reached. Publication under the agreement is suspended until 2025.
Oxford University Press	free APCs for Hybrid OA articles; capped at 304 articles for 2024, and 216 for 2025 at the national level.	complete list
PLOS OA publisher	100% free APCs in six Gold OA journals	PLOS ONE PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases PLOS Genetics PLOS Computational Biology PLOS Pathogens PLOS Digital Health (new journal)
SAGE	100% free APCs for Hybrid OA articles, 20% discount on APCs for Gold OA articles	complete list
Springer	100% free APCs for Hybrid OA articles	complete list
Taylor&Francis	100% free APCs for Gold and Hybrid OA articles, including Dove Press (Gold OA) and F1000 Research platform (Gold OA). National yearly quota: 702 articles accepted in 2024, 716 in 2025, 730 in 2026, and 745 in 2027.	complete list
Wiley	100% free APCs for Hybrid OA articles Attention: the funds for publication within the 2024 agreement have been run out.	complete list

Financial support for Open Access publishing