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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:
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 |
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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. » more information |
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 |
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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