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
ACS - American Chemical Society	free APCs for Gold OA and Hybrid OA articles; capped at 138 articles accepted in 2023, 177 accepted in 2024, and 216 accepted in 2025 at the national level. Attention: maximum number of articles for 2023 reached. Publication under the agreement is suspended until 2024.	complete list
Elsevier	100% free APCs for Gold and Hybrid OA articles	complete list
Frontiers Gold OA publisher	free APCs for articles submitted in 2023, until exhaustion of the amount prepayed by USI Attention: only USI staff entitled to Gold Open Access reimbursement are allowed to publish within the agreement (» see inclusion criteria)	all
IEEE	free articles in all Gold OA journals; capped at the national level at 132 articles between 2022 and 2024.	complete list
Karger Journals	100% free APCs for Gold and Hybrid OA articles	complete list
MDPI Gold OA publisher	20% discount on APCs	all
Nature	100% free APCs for Gold and Hybrid OA articles Warning: maximum number of articles for 2023 reached. Publication under the agreement is suspended until 2024.	complete list
Oxford University Press	free APCs for Hybrid OA articles; capped at 298 articles for 2023 and 177 for 2024, and 216 for 2025 at the national level.	complete list
PLOS Gold 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; capped at 450 articles for 2023 at the national level.	complete list
Wiley	100% free APCs for Hybrid OA articles Attention: the article cap for 2023 will be reached soon. Publication inside the agreement will therefore shortly be suspended until 2024.	complete list

Financial support for Open Access publishing