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
Elsevier	100% free APCs for Gold and Hybrid OA articles	complete list
Frontiers Gold OA publisher	free APCs for articles submitted between 01.03.2022 and 28.02.2023, until exhaustion of the amount prepayed by USI Attention: USI prepaid amount exhausted. Until the end of the validity period, 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
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 Nature	100% free APCs for Hybrid OA articles	complete list
Taylor&Francis	100% free APCs for Gold and Hybrid OA articles; capped at 366 articles for 2022 and 450 for 2023 at the national level. Attention: article cap for 2022 almost reached. Publication inside the agreement will be suspended in mid to late October 2022, and will resume in 2023.	complete list
Wiley	100% free APCs for Hybrid OA articles Attention: article cap for 2022 reached. Publication inside the agreement is suspended until 2023.	complete list

Financial support for Open Access publishing