Covering the costs of scientific open access publications
The SNSF provides grants to finance scientific publications that are made available immediately, without restriction and free of charge (gold open access). There are three types of processing charges:
- for articles in open access journals (article processing charges APCs)
- for open access book publications (book processing charges BPCs)
- for book chapters (book chapter processing charges BCPCs)
The conditions for Open Access funding are described in the Regulations for the funding of Open Access publications. The Guidelines explain the various ways to fulfill the SNSF’s open access obligations.
- BPCs and BCPCs can be requested via mySNF.
- Coverage of APCs must be applied for via the snsf.chronoshub.io platform, within the framework of the ongoing pilot project with the service provider ChronosHub.
