Article Fee Funding

ACS

No costs for UZH researchers and members of university hospitals (University Hospital Zurich, Balgrist University Hospital, Psychiatric University Hospital, Children’s Hospital Zurich).

Corresponding authors should list the University of Zurich as their affiliation institution upon manuscript submission and use the e-mail domain of the UZH. It is important that the eligible authors notify the publisher that their article should be published open access when replying to proofreading message sent from the publisher.

AIMS

Applies to open access charges for articles in the hybrid journals (exceptions: Journal of the Physical Society of Japan and Physics Today) with acceptance dates on or after Jan. 1, 2022

AIP

Costs

Applies to open access charges in the following ACM publication (journals, magazines, and conference proceedings) with acceptance dates on or after 6/1/2022.

Beginning Jan. 1, 2021, for accepted open access article charges in these journals (XLSX).

After acceptance of their article, corresponding authors will receive an email with a link to complete the Cambridge Publishing Author Journey (PDF, 2 MB)publication process. If you would like to publish your article Open Access free of charge, please select the "Gold Open Access" option. You will then have the option to choose between the CC BY, CC BY-NC-ND or CC-BY-NC-SA license. Further information can be found here.

Cambridge University Press

Cogitatio Press
Cogitatio Journals

De Gruyter

Applies to open access charges for articles in these  journals (XLSX, 144 KB) submitted since Jan. 1, 2020 (exceptions: Cell Press, Lancet, and Society Journals).

After acceptance of your article, corresponding authors will receive an e-mail with a link to Elsevier's Rights and Access Portal (Elsevier workflow (PDF, 1 MB)). Please enter "University of Zurich" as "Corresponding Author's Organization". If you want to publish your article free of charge Open Access, please select the "Gold Open Access" option.

Applies to open access charges for articles in Gold Open Access journals with acceptance dates on or after Jan. 1, 2022.

In the case of subscription journals, there is the possibility to post the accepted version of the article without an embargo period in ZORA via green open access.

Corresponding authors are asked to indicate affiliation with the University of Zurich during the submission process (PDF, 1 MB).

Applies to open access charges for articles in all journals (exceptions: Electrochemical Society and American Astronomical Society journals) with acceptance dates on or after Jan. 1, 2022.

Corresponding authors follow the IOP-Workflow (PDF, 1018 KB) and ensure that the affiliation with the University of Zurich is indicated on the article itself and on the submission form. After verification of eligibility for free open access publication by the publisher, you will receive a confirmation by e-mail.

IOP

During the submission process, the University of Zurich or one of the university hospitals must be specified.

Workflow (PDF, 195 KB)

Karger Journals

Karger Funding and Open Access Agreements

Applies to Open Access fees for articles in the hybrid journals with acceptance date from 1.1.2022 (included article types: "Original Research", "Case reports" and "Review papers").

During the submission process, the question whether the publication should be published Open Access should be answered with "yes". The system identifies the corresponding authors by providing the e-mail address of the University of Zurich or the university hospitals. The corresponding institution (University of Zurich or university hospitals) must be specified accordingly. After acceptance, the corresponding authors are requested to place an OA order in the publisher's payment portal, where the funding of the APC by the University of Zurich can be requested.

OLH Webseite
OLH Zeitschriften

After acceptance of the article, corresponding authors will receive an email with a link to OUP’s online licencing and payment system. Follow the steps through process (PDF, 1 MB) of open access publishing.

Important note: OUP are in the process of moving to a new licensing and online payment portal (SciPris). During this transition phase, some authors will be guided through a different workflow. Using the workflow on the OUP page in the section “I’m the eligible author, what do I need to do”. In the case authors receive invoices: Please do not pay any invoices for the open access article processing charges (APC). OUP are not able to refund already paid invoices.

Applies to open access charges for articles in the publisher's hybrid journals.

When the manuscript is accepted, the corresponding authors receive an email. The system identifies you by the institution's email domain (.uzh.ch) with a Read&Publish agreement. You select a publication route and sign the license for open access publication. The articles are published under the CC BY licence.

Workflow (PDF, 490 KB)

SCOAP3 website
SCOAP3 journals

After acceptance of your article, corresponding authors will receive an e-mail with a link to complete the publication process in "MyPublication" of Springer Nature (Workflow Springer Nature (PDF, 1 MB)). Please enter "University of Zurich" for the institution affiliation.  This affiliation information will automatically be assigned to the Open Access agreement and further information on article acceptance by the University of Zurich will appear.

Beginning 1/1/2021 for accepted open access article charges in these journals (XLSX).

Corresponding authors are identified as a member of the University of Zurich or one of the associated university hospitals either at the time of submission or when the article is accepted. They are identified via the e-mail domain or you select the University of Zurich from a drop-down menu.

Workflow

Beginning 5/1/2021 for accepted open access article charges in these journals (XLSX).

Once the article has been accepted, log in as a corresponding author under Wiley Author Services Dashboard. Under "My Articles," locate your article and click "Manage Article" and then "Select Open Access." You may be prompted to add or confirm the affiliation you entered during submission. If prompted, select "Yes, make my article open access". UB Zurich will be notified of your request. If your open access request is approved, you will receive a confirmation email. Your accepted article will then be published on Wiley Online Library under a Creative Commons license Open Access. Workflow informationen

Applies to Open Access fees for articles in the journal Science Advances.

In the course of submitting the article, the University of Zurich must be selected in a drop-down menu. Subsequently, it is checked whether the funding guidelines (PDF, 110 KB) are adhered to and, in unclear cases, the author is contacted.

Frontiers journals

Validity

Applies to publication with corresponding authors from the University of Zurich or university hospitals and clinics (University Hospital Zurich, Balgrist University Hospital, Psychiatric University Hospital, Children's Hospital Zurich).

MDPI journals

For "Regular research articles" that are immediately published Open Access, there is a discountdue to the subscription fees of the university library.
For "Brief Report articles" only the Open Access option can be chosen. These costs are not covered.

Discount

USD 3'000 instead of USD 3'500

Validity

Biochemical Journal und Clinical Science

Portland Press Open Access Policy

Discount

15 %

Validity

Applies to open access charges for articles in the publisher's Gold Open Access journals. Some open access journals do not currently charge an article fee (APC). See individual Gold Open Access journalsfor more information.