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Financial support for Open Access

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. 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 under the agreement are expected to run out in early November.
complete list
Financial support for Open Access publishing