Financing Article Fees
Complete financing of the article fees (APCs) |
There are no costs for (corresponding) UZH researchers for publications in journals from the publishers listed below. Please refer to the individual publishers/journals to see the exact conditions. The costs are covered by the Main Library.
Annual Reviews
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Costs |
There are no costs for UZH-researchers |
| Validity |
Annual Review of Cancer Biology Annual Review of Environment and Resources Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science |
BMJ Case Reports
| Costs |
No costs for UZH researchers when entering their membership number (Fellowship Code) |
| Procedure | The Fellowship Code must be entered during submission. |
Cogitatio Press
| Costs |
No costs for UZH researchers. |
| Validity | Valid for all articles with corresponding authors of the UZH published since January 1, 2020 until December 31, 2022. |
| Procedure | The publisher checks the UZH affiliation of corresponding authors using the prefix of the e-mail address "uzh.ch". |
Elsevier **Read & Publish Contract**
| Costs |
No costs for UZH researchers and members of university hospitals (University Hospital Zurich, Balgrist University Hospital, Psychiatric University Hospital, Children's Hospital Zurich) |
| Validity |
Valid for Open Access charges of articles in these journals (XLSX, 144 KB) submitted since January 1, 2020. |
| Procedure |
After your article is accepted, corresponding authors will receive an e-mail with a link to the Elsevier Rights and Access Portal (Workflow details (PDF, 3070 KB)). Please enter the 'University of Zurich' as the 'Corresponding Author's Organization'. If you wish to publish your article free of charge in Open Access, please select the 'Gold Open Access' option. Afterwards you have the possibility to choose between the CC BY 4.0 or CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license. |
Karger **Read & Publish Contract**
| Costs | No costs for UZH researchers and members of university hospitals (University Hospital Zurich, Balgrist University Hospital, Psychiatric University Hospital, Children's Hospital Zurich) |
| Validity |
Valid for all articles submitted since January 1, 2020 |
| Procedure |
The University of Zurich or one of the university hospitals must be specified in the submission process. |
Open Library of Humanities (OLH)
OLH is financed by an international consortium of libraries and funders. OLH offers a refereed, scientific Gold-Open Access mega-journal, as well as a publication platform for journals in the humanities.
| Costs |
No costs for UZH researchers |
| Procedure |
No special identification is required for UZH researchers. |
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) **Read & Publish Contract**
| Costs |
No costs for UZH researchers |
| Validity |
This offer is valid for all RSC journals except the Open Access journals Chemical Science, Nanoscale Advances, RSC Advances and RSC Chemical Biology. |
| Quota | 12 articles in 2020 |
| Procedure |
After the article has been accepted by one of the following RSC Journals, the submitting UZH author will receive an e-mail with the option to publish the article as Open Access. The choice of Creative Commons license is up to the researchers. |
ScienceMatters
ScienceMatters is an innovative publication platform on which especially smaller interim scientific results (single, validated observations) can be published.
| Costs |
No costs for UZH researchers |
| Procedure |
Before submitting an article to ScienceMatters, researchers must first register. Once an article has been submitted, the researcher's UZH affiliation is verified based on their email address. |
SCOAP3 - Journals of High Energy Physics
SCOAP3 is an international consortium of libraries and funders. Its goal is to continuously transform important journals in the field of High Energy Physics to Open Access.
| Costs |
No costs for UZH researchers |
| Procedure |
Please note the specific conditions of the individual journals. |
Springer Nature **Read & Publish Contract**
| Costs | No costs for UZH researchers and members of university hospitals (University Hospital Zurich, Balgrist University Hospital, Psychiatric University Hospital, Children's Hospital Zurich) |
| Validity | Valid for Open Access article processing charges of articles in these journals (all Open Choice Journals available on SpringerLink) accepted from 1.7.2020. Exceptions: Gold Open Access journals and some society journals and imprints. |
| Procedure | After your article is accepted, corresponding authors will receive an e-mail with a link to the Springer Nature online process “MyPublication” (Author Journey Springer Nature (PDF, 1416 KB)). Please select the affiliation/institution "University of Zurich". This affiliation information will match to the Open Access agreement with the University of Zurich and further information appears which provides additional information on the Open Access agreement. |
Discounts on Article Processing Charges (APCs) |
For publications in journals from the following publishers, (corresponding) UZH researchers receive discounts on article fees. Please refer to the individual publishers/journals for the exact conditions.
ACS - American Chemical Society
| Discount |
Different discounts for ACS members and subscribing institutions. |
| Procedure |
During the ordering process, you can search for "University of Zurich" in the "Apply Discounts" section. The discount will be deducted automatically afterwards. |
BioMed Central/SpringerOpen
The publishing house offers over 300 journals in the natural sciences, technology, medicine, humanities and social sciences.
| Discount | 60% |
| Validity |
Not valid for supplements or Springer Nature Journals. |
| Procedure |
The University of Zurich must be selected during submission. Subsequently, adherence to the funding guidelines (PDF, 55 KB)is checked, and, in unclear cases, the author is contacted. |
Frontiers Media S.A.
Frontiers Media S.A. was founded at EPFL in 2007. The publishing house offers around 80 journals in the natural sciences, technology and medicine, and increasingly also in the humanities and social sciences.
| Discount |
31% (since March 1, 2019) |
| Procedure |
When submitting an article, the University of Zurich must be selected from a drop-down menu. Subsequently, adherence to the funding guidelines (PDF, 55 KB) is checked, and, in unclear cases, the author is contacted. |
MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
The publishing house offers about 150 journals in the natural sciences and medicine, increasingly also in the humanities and social sciences.
| Discount | 25 % |
| Validity |
Applies to publications with corresponding authors from the University of Zurich or University Hospitals and Clinics (Universitätsspital Zürich, Universitätsklinik Balgrist, Psychiatrische Universitätsklinik, Kinderspital Zürich) |
| Procedure |
If submitting from the IP range of the University of Zurich, the membership of the University of Zurich is pre-selected. If submitting from outside the IP range, you can select the UZH manually. The editors of the journals will check the authorization. |
PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of Science
| Discount |
USD 1,300 instead of USD 1,700 (regular fee) with CC BY-NC-ND license or USD 2,200 with CC BY license |
| Procedure |
There is no automatic system that recognizes authors whose institution has a site license. This must be specified when filling out the billing forms. |
Portland Press
| Discount |
USD 3,000 instead of USD 3,500 |
| Validty | |
| Procedure |
After acceptance by one of these two journals, publication in open-access mode (Opt2Pay) can be selected. To do this, select the University of Zurich in the corresponding selection window. |
Science Advances (AAAS)
| Discount |
15 % |
| Procedure |
After acceptance of the article, click on "apply discounts" on the RightsLink website. In a next step, the UZH can be selected from a drop-down menu. |