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
Cell Press	→ see Elsevier
Dove Press OA publisher	→ see Taylor&Francis
Elsevier	100% free APCs for Gold and Hybrid OA articles by the publishers Elsevier, Cell Press, and Lancet Journals	complete list
F1000 Research platform OA publisher	→ see Taylor&Francis
Frontiers 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
Lancet Journals	→ see Elsevier
MDPI OA publisher	20% discount on APCs	all
Nature	100% free APCs for Gold and Hybrid OA articles Warning: the quota of articles for 2024 has almost been reached. When exhausted, publication under the agreement will be suspended until 2025.	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 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
Wiley	100% free APCs for Hybrid OA articles	complete list

Financial support for Open Access publishing