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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
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.
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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)
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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.
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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.
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Financial support for Open Access publishing