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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
Elsevier 100% free APCs for Gold and Hybrid OA articles Attention: no agreement reached for 2024.
USI authors can no longer publish new articles free of charge in Gold or Hybrid Open Access (OA) until further notice. USI Libraries recommend, starting January 1st, not to accept paid Open Access publication for articles. As an alternative, researchers are invited to deposit articles in Green Open Access in the institutional repository SUSI.

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Frontiers
Gold 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. complete list
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
MDPI
Gold OA publisher
20% discount on APCs all
Nature 100% free APCs for Gold and Hybrid OA articles complete list
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
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, 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

Attention: the 2024-2027 agreement is being finalized; all information is still to be confirmed. In case of doubt, please contact OA-BiUSI@usi.ch.
Wiley 100% free APCs for Hybrid OA articles complete list
Financial support for Open Access publishing