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Hirschmann Barbara, last updated on Nov 04, 2025
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ETH Library provides researchers from ETH Zurich with the possibility to publish open access either at the library's expense or at a reduced price.
This video briefly explains the general procedure.
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Eligibility criteria for the funding of Open Access articles
The publication model is important for Article Processing Charge (APC) funding (see FAQs):
Gold journal: Primary publication of academic articles via an open-access publisher or in a pure Open Access journal of a conventional publisher (cf. DOAJ). The APC is funded either by the ETH Library or, in the case of SNSF-funded projects, by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF). For SNSF-funded articles in gold journals, please consult SNSF-funded articles: APC funding process
Hybrid journal: Hybrid journals are subscription journals that allow authors to make individual articles freely accessible by paying an APC. Articles in hybrid journals are only financially supported by the ETH Library if there is an agreement with the publisher.
The ETH Library has agreements with various publishers to cover costs and supports non-APC-based journals in which researchers can publish free of charge.
Full Article Processing Charge funding for publishers with an agreement
Please check the list below to see whether the ETH Library has an agreement with the publisher with whom you publish to cover the costs. The procedure for these publishers is described in the respective accordion elements below, please click on the elements to open them. As a rule, you as an author will not receive an invoice from these publishers, but the ETH Library will automatically finance the open access fees. Please note the funding criteria.
Publication model | Gold and hybrid (via publisher's workflow) |
Journals/Proceedings | ETH members publish free of charge in all ACM publications. Co-published conference proceedings and journals with other publishers are excluded (list). |
Article types | All article types |
Article quota | unlimited |
Workflow | Use your ETH email (@...ethz.ch) as "Insitutional Email" in ACM's submission form. Detailed information is available at: Workflow. |
SNSF funded articles | Co-published gold journals (list): Request an APC invoice to your ETH address and submit it to SNSF (ChronosHub); detailed information see here. |
Publication model | Gold and hybrid (via publisher's workflow) |
Journals | ETH members publish free of charge in all listed hybrid and gold open access journals of ACS. |
Article types | All peer reviewed articles |
Article quota | Limited annually as part of a consortium agreement. ETH Library will cover the fees for additional articles as far as the budget allows. Once the budget is exhausted, the article costs will be charged to the authors at a discounted publication fee ($3,000). We will provide information in a news release as soon as this time is foreseeable. |
Workflow | When submitting via ACS Paragon Plus as a corresponding author, select your institution from a dropdown box and use your institutional email address. Open access articles are published unter a CC BY 4.0 license. Detailed information on the workflow is available here: Workflow (download slides) and on the ACS website. |
SNSF funded articles |
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Publication model | Hybrid (via publisher's workflow) and gold (via application form) |
Journals | ETH members publish free of charge in all AIP hybrid journals. |
Article types | Brief Communication, Communication, Conference Article, Fast Track or Article-FT, Letter, Note, Perspective, Article, Research Update, Review, Roadmap, Tutorial. |
Article quota | Annually limited, quota never exhausted to date. |
Workflow |
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SNSF funded articles | Gold journals: Request an APC invoice to your ETH address and submit it to SNSF (ChronosHub); detailed information see here. |
Publication model | Gold (via publisher's workflow) |
Journals | ETH members publish free of charge in the journals Physical Review X, PRX Energy, PRX Quantum, Physical Review Research, Physical Review Physics Education Research |
Article types | All article types |
Article quota | unlimited |
Workflow | Select "ETH Zurich" in the affiliation section. |
SNSF funded articles | Request an APC invoice to your ETH address and submit it to SNSF (ChronosHub); detailed information see here. |
Publication model | Gold and hybrid (via publisher's workflow) |
Journals | ETH members publish free of charge in 33 ASME hybrid journals of that society and in the gold open access title "ASME Open Journal of Engineering". Additionally, no costs occur for open access papers in ASME conference proceedings. |
Article types | n.a. |
Article quota | Unlimited |
Workflow | Detailed information you will find here: Workflow (download slides) For articles, select the Open Access (OA) option 'Yes, my institution has an R&P agreement' during submission. For conference papers, do not select the OA option. Instead, send an email to Tara Collins Smith (SmithT@asme.org) after submission. She will then change the paper's access status to open access. |
Publication model | Gold and hybrid (via publisher's workflow) |
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Article types | Research Article, Review Article, Rapid Communication, Brief Report and Case Report |
Article quota | Unlimited |
Workflow |
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Publication model | Hybrid (via publisher's workflow) and gold (via application form) |
Journals |
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Article types | All article types |
Article quota | Unlimited |
Workflow |
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SNSF funded articles | Gold journals: Request a discounted APC invoice to your ETH address and submit it to SNSF (ChronosHub); detailed information see here. |
Publication model | Gold (via publisher's workflow) |
Journals | ETH members publish free of charge in all journals of Cogitatio. |
Article types | All article types |
Article quota | Unlimited |
Workflow | Identify yourself as an ETH member when submitting a manuscript. |
Publication model | Hybrid (via publisher's workflow) and gold (via application form) |
Journals | ETH members publish free of charge in all five hybrid and gold journals of CoB. |
Article types | Research Article, Research Report, Techniques and Resources Article, Techniques and Resources Report, Short Report, Tools and Resources, Methods & Techniques, Short Communication |
Article quota | Unlimited |
Workflow |
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SNSF funded articles | Gold journals: Request an APC invoice to your ETH address and submit to SNSF (ChronosHub); detailed information see here. |
Publication model | Gold (via publisher's workflow) |
Journals | ETH members publish free of charge in all journals of Copernicus when using the LaTex- and MS Word templates provided by the publisher (mandatory); correpsonding authors are charged with additional costs when they submit without this templates. |
Article types | All article types |
Article quota | Unlimited |
Workflow | When submitting your manuscript, please select ETH Zurich from the drop-down menu in the "Manuscript Registration" section. Detailed information available on the website of Copernicus. |
SNSF funded articles | Request an APC invoice to your ETH address and submit to SNSF (ChronosHub); detailed information see here. |
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Journals | ETH members publish free of charge in all journals covered by the Swiss national agreement (journal titles) and in gold journals of Elsevier. |
Article types | Case Report, Data, Full-Length Article, Microarticle, Original Software Publication, Practice Guidelines, Protocol, Review Article, Replication Studies, Short Communication, Short Survey, Video Article |
Article quota | unlimited |
Workflow |
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SNSF funded articles | Gold journals published by Societies: for articles with SNSF funding, please request an APC invoice to your ETH address and submit to SNSF (ChronosHub); detailed information see here. |
Publication model | Gold (via publisher's workflow) |
Journals | ETH members publish free of charge in all journals of Frontiers including Frontiers Partnership Journals (except Aerospace Research Communications) |
Article types | All article types |
Article quota | unlimited |
Workflow | Select ETH Zurich in the Choose Payer section. Detailed information available on the Frontiers website: Author Guidelines. |
SNSF funded articles | Request an APC invoice to your ETH address (Choose Payer = Individual Payer) and submit to SNSF (ChronosHub); detailed information see here. Exception for Special Issues: Articles that appear in so-called "Research Topics" will no longer be funded by the SNSF from 1 February 2024 (submission date). These articles can be invoiced to the ETH Library (see Workflow). |
Publication model | Gold (via publisher's workflow) |
Journals | ETH members publish free of charge in all gold journals of IEEE. |
Article types | All article types |
Article quota | Unlimited |
Workflow | Detailed information available at: Workflow (download slides) |
SNSF funded articles | Gold journals: Articles with SNSF funding are rejected by us in the dashboard. Please generate an APC invoice and submit it to SNSF (ChronosHub); detailed information see here. |
Publication model | Gold and hybrid (via publisher's workflow) |
Journals | ETH members publish free of charge in hybrid and gold journals of IOP contained in this journal title list. Not included are journals published by the Electrochemical Society (ECS) and the American Astronomical Society (AAS). |
Article types | Primary Research Article, Research Paper, Special Issue Article, Letter and Review Article |
Article quota | Unlimited |
Workflow | Detailed information available at: Workflow and on the IOP website. |
Publication model | Gold and hybrid (via publisher's workflow) |
Journals | ETH members publish free of charge in all journals of Karger. |
Article types | All article types |
Article quota | Unlimited |
Workflow | Identify yourself as an ETH member when submitting a manuscript. |
Publication model | Gold (via publisher's workflow) |
Journals | ETH members publish free of charge in all journals of MDPI. |
Article types | All article types |
Article quota | Unlimited |
Workflow | Select ETH Zurich from the Institutional Membership dropdown box while submitting your paper at "Susy" (MDPI submission system) and do not change the setup Central: Invoiced to institution. Detailed information on the MDPI website. |
SNSF funded articles | Request an APC invoice to your ETH address (select Non-Central) and submit to SNSF (ChronosHub); detailed information see here. Exception for Special Issues: Articles that appear in special issues will no longer be funded by the SNSF from 1 February 2024 (submission date). These articles can be invoiced to the ETH Library (see Workflow). |
Publication model | Gold and hybrid (via publisher's workflow) |
Journals | ETH members publish free of charge in all journals of the Microbiology Society. |
Article types | All article types |
Article quota | Unlimited |
Workflow | Use your ETH email when submitting your manuscript. Detailed information available on the Microbiology Society website. |
Publication model | Gold (via publisher's workflow) |
Journals | ETH members publish free of charge in all gold journals of Optica. |
Article types | All article types |
Article quota | Unlimited |
Workflow | Enter ETH Zurich as your Primary Affiliation and your ETH email as your contact address when submitting your manuscript on Prism Submission System. |
SNSF funded articles | Gold journals: Request an APC invoice to your ETH address and submit to SNSF (ChronosHub); detailed information see here. |
Publication model | Hybrid (via publisher's workflow) and gold (via application form) |
Journals |
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Article types | All article types |
Article quota | unlimited |
Workflow |
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SNSF funded articles | Gold journals: Request a discounted APC invoice to your ETH address and submit it to SNSF (ChronosHub); detailed information see here. |
Publication model | Gold and hybrid (via publisher's workflow) |
Journals | ETH members publish free of charge in all hybrid and gold journals of Portland Press: Biochemical journal, Biochemical Society transactions, Bioscience Reports, Clinical Science, Emerging Topics in Life Sciences, Essays in Biochemistry, Neuronal Signalling |
Article types | All article types |
Article quota | Unlimited |
Workflow | Detailed information available at: Workflow and on the Portland Press website. |
Publication model | Gold (via publisher's workflow) |
Journals | ETH members publish free of charge in all journals of PLOS (Public Library of Science). |
Article types | All article types |
Article quota | Unlimited |
Workflow | When submitting your manuscript opt for My institution will fully or partially pay the fee as a member of the PLOS Institutional Account Pogram in the dropdown box called "Publication Fees" (in section "Additional Information"). Detailed information available on the PLOS website. |
SNSF funded articles | Request an APC invoice to your ETH address and submit it to SNSF (ChronosHub); detailed information see here. |
Publication model | Hybrid (via publisher's workflow) and gold (via application form) |
Journals |
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Article types | All article types |
Article quota | Unlimited |
Workflow |
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SNSF funded articles | Gold journals: Request a discounted APC invoice to your ETH address and submit it to SNSF (ChronosHub); detailed information see here. |
Publication model | Gold and hybrid (via publisher's workflow) |
Journals | ETH members publish free of charge in SAGE hybrid and gold journals represented in this journal title list. |
Article types | Original Research Paper, Review Paper, Brief Communication, Short Report, Case Report and others |
Article quota | Unlimited |
Workflow | SAGE recognizes authors as an ETH member based on the ETH email domain and the Ringgold ID, so please use your ETH email when submitting your manuscript. Detailed information available at: Workflow (download PDF). |
Publication model | Gold and hybrid (via publisher's workflow) |
Journals | ETH members publish free of charge in all hybrid journals of Nature covered by the national agreement (journal title list) and in Nature branded gold journals (e.g. Scientific Reports, Nature Communications, Communications Journals). Nature Reviews/Protocols and Scientific American offers no open access option. |
Article types | Original Paper, Review Paper, Brief Communication and Continuing Education |
Article quota |
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Workflow | Once your article is accepted for publication by a Nature journal, you receive an email with a link to the form MyPublications, please select ETH Zurich as your affiliation. Detailed information available at: Workflow. |
SNSF funded articles | Gold journals: Articles with SNSF funding are rejected by us in the dashboard. Please generate an APC invoice and submit it to SNSF (ChronosHub); detailed information see here. |
Publication model | Gold and hybrid (via publisher's workflow) |
Journals | ETH members publish free of charge in all hybrid journals of Springer covered by the national and an ETH agreement (journal title list). Additionally, ETH members are not charged for APCs for articles published within both programs Springer Open and BMC. |
Article types | Original Paper, Review Paper, Brief Communication and Continuing Education |
Article quota |
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Workflow | Once your article is accepted for publication by a Springer journal, you receive an email with a link to the form MyPublications, please select ETH Zurich as your affiliation. Detailed information available at: Workflow. |
SNSF funded articles | Gold journals: Articles with SNSF funding are rejected by us in the dashboard. Please generate an APC invoice and submit it to SNSF (ChronosHub); detailed information see here. |
Publication model | Gold and hybrid (via publisher's workflow) |
Journals | ETH members publish free of charge in Taylor & Francis hybrid and gold journals represented in this journal title list. The agreement also includes the portfolios of Dove Presse and Faculty of 1000. |
Article types | All types of research articles (RA): Article Commentary, Brief Report, Case Report, Data Note, Discussion, Dissertation, Essay, Legal Case, Method, Note, Pictorial Work, Rapid Communication, Registered Report, Reply, Report, Research Article, Research Letter, Review Article, Target Article |
Article quota | Annually limited, quota never exhausted to date. |
Workflow | Corrersponding authors are recognized as ETH members when submitting (gold journals) or once the paper is accepted for publication (open select journals); identification is based on ETH email domain combined with selecting ETH Zurich as affiliation in a dropdown box. Detailed information available at: Workflow (download slides) an on Taylor & Francis website. |
Publication model | Hybrid (via publisher's workflow) |
Costs | ETH members publish free of charge in all journals of Trans Tech. |
Article types | All article types |
Article quota | Unlimited |
Workflow | Identify yourself as an ETH member when submitting a manuscript and select the open access option. Further information on the Trans Tech Submission website. |
Publication model | Gold and hybrid (via publisher's workflow) |
Journals | ETH members publish free of charge in Wiley journals represented in this journal title list. |
Article types |
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Article quota |
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Workflow | When submitting a manuscript, select ETH Zurich as affiliation. Note: Only responsible corresponding authors are eligible for APC funding via agreements. Detailed information available at: Workflow |
Publication model | Hybrid (via publisher's workflow) and Gold (via application form) |
Journals |
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Article types | Review and research type articles |
Article quota | Unlimited |
Workflow |
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SNSF funded articles | Gold journals: Request a discounted APC invoice to your ETH address and submit it to SNSF (ChronosHub); detailed information see here. |
Discounts on Article Processing Charges
The following journals and publishers offer discounted open-access conditions for members of ETH Zurich. Please bear in mind that you might need to explicitly indicate your entitlement to a reduction of the publication fee for these journals when submitting.
Click on a publisher to open the accordion and make the information visible.
ETH members receive a 10 % discount on the regular APC of USD 500.
Further information you can find here: Open-access arrangements for Acta Crystallographica Section E
Publication model | Hybrid (Subscribe to Open) and Gold (via application form) |
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Article types | Research and review articles |
Article quota | unlimited |
Workflow | When submitting, the institutional affiliation with ETH Zurich must be indicated (ROR ID of ETH Zürich: https://ror.org/05a28rw58), see author identification. |
Publication model | Hybrid (Subscribe to Open) |
Journals | Due to the financial support by ETH Library for the subscribe-to-open model (S2O) of ASM, members of ETH Zurich do not pay article processing charges (APCs) in 6 journals published by the society. However, corresponding authors will still be charged for page charges (approximately $80/160 per page) and supplemental material fees (approximately $280, flat fee) which cannot be covered by ETH Library. |
Article types | Research articles |
Article quota | unlimited |
Workflow | When submitting, the institutional affiliation must be indicated as ETH Zurich (ROR ID of ETH Zurich: https://ror.org/05a28rw58), see author identification. ETH members are identified as eligible according to their affiliation. |
ETH members receive a 90 % discount on Open access fees in all de Gruyter Journals, that are licensed by ETH Library.
ETH members receive a 20% discount on Open Access fees in all Institute of Civil Engineering (ICE) journals.
ETH members pay USD 5495 instead of USD 5995 for the "Immediate Open Access Option".
More information you can find here: PNAS Publication Charges
ETH members receive a discount of 15 % on the regular APC. To redeem the discount, please enter ETH Zurich in the "Affiliation Discount" section of the "Apply Discounts" window by selecting the institution from the drop-down menu in the "Affiliation Discount" section.
If there is no other Open Access funding available (e.g. SNSF, you can request ETH-Bibliothek via the form Application for Open Access Publication Costs to finance the reduced APC.
More information you can find here: Science Advances Article processing charges
Full Article Processing Charge funding for publishers without an agreement
Fees for open-access articles in pure open-access journals (Gold Open Access) that are not covered by any agreement can be financed by the ETH Library. Please fill out this application form:
In this case, you must send us the publisher's invoice. The funding criteria apply here as well.
ETH Library does not fund fees for open access articles in subscription journals (so-called hybrid journals) unless they are part of one of the agreements mentioned below.
Support for non-APC-based journals (Diamond Open Access)
Neither authors nor readers are charged for Diamond Open Access journals. These journals are partly financed by consortia or similar business models such as "Subscribe to Open", in which libraries participate financially. The ETH Library supports the following Diamond Open Access publishers and journals.
Publication model | Gold (Diamond) |
Costs | ETH Library supports the journal Acta Acustica, published by EDP Sciences, as part of an institutions members sponsorship. |
Article types | All article types |
Article quota | Unlimited |
Workflow | Authors do not pay publication fees in this journal. |
Publication model | Gold (Diamond) |
Costs | ETH Library supports the journal "Aerosol Research", published by Copernicus, as part of a consortium financing model. During the current three-year development phase of the journal (2023-2025) we are contributing financial support to this non-APC-based business model. |
Article types | All article types |
Article quota | Unlimited |
Workflow | Authors do not pay publication fees in this journal. |
Publication model | Gold (Subscribe to Open) |
Costs | Due to the financial participation of ETH Library in Annual Reviews' "Subscribe to Open" (S20) model, members of ETH Zurich do not pay publication fees in journal with this publishing model. |
Article types | All article types |
Article quota | Unlimited |
Workflow | Detailed information is available here: Workflow |
Publication model | Gold (Subscribe to Open) |
Costs | Due to the financial participation of ETH Library in EDP Science's "Subscribe to Open" (S20) model , members of ETH Zurich do not pay publication fees in journals with this model. |
Article types | All article types |
Article quota | Unlimited |
Workflow | Detailed information is available at: Instructions for Authors |
Publication model | Gold (Subscribe to Open) |
Costs | Due to the financial participation of ETH Library in EMS Press' "Subscribe to Open" (S20) model , members of ETH Zurich do not pay publication fees in any of the 23 Journals of the publisher. |
Article types | All article types |
Article quota | Unlimited |
Workflow | Detailed information is available at: Information for Authors |
Publication model | Gold (Diamond) |
Costs | ETH Library supports the journal ex/ante with a membership fee. |
Article types | All article types |
Article quota | Unlimited |
Workflow | Authors don't pay publication fees in this journal |
Publication model | Gold (Subscribe to Open) |
Costs | Thanks to the ETH Library's financial participation in IWA Publishing's "Subscribe to Open" model (S2O), members of ETH Zurich do not pay publication fees for any of the publisher's journals. |
Article types | All article types |
Article quota | Unlimited |
Workflow | Detailed information is available at: Instructions for Authors |
Publication model | Gold (Diamond) |
Costs | The ETH Library supports the KOALA initiative (acronym for "Establishing Consortial Open Access Solutions") by participating in the "KOALA Mathematics and Computer Science 2024-2026" and ‘KOALA Informatics and Mathematics 2025-2027’ journal bundle. Participation in this funding consortium enables free open access publication in the six (2024-2026) or three (2025-2027) supported journals for the corresponding term. |
Article types | All article types |
Article quota | Unlimited |
Publication model | Gold (Subscribe to Open) |
Costs | The ETH Library participates in MSP "Subscribe to Open" model (S2O) through which currently five journals are published fully open access. |
Article types | All article types |
Article quota | Unlimited |
Workflow | Authors do not pay publication fees in any journal of this publisher |
Publication model | Gold (Diamond) |
Costs | The publisher Open Library of Humanities covers its costs through payments of an international library consortium, in which ETH Library is participating. |
Article types | All article types |
Article quota | Unlimited |
Workflow | Authors do not pay publication fees in any journal of this publisher |
Publication model | Gold (Diamond) |
Costs | ETH Library supports the publishing platform Peer Community in. |
Article types | All article types |
Article quota | Unlimited |
Workflow | Authors don't pay publication fees in the Peer Community Journal. |
Publication model | Gold (Diamond) |
Costs | Members of ETH Zurich do not pay publication fees in ten high-energy physics open access journals. The ETH Library financially supports the SCOAP3 (Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics) as part of the Swiss University Libraries Consortium (CSAL). |
Article types | All article types |
Article quota | Unlimited |
Workflow | Detailed information available at: SCOAP3 |
Publication model | Gold (Diamond) |
Costs | ETH members do not pay publication fees in a total of 11 Journals in the fields of astronomy, chemistry, physics and political science. SciPost is an open access publication portal that is financed via a membership model and to which ETH Zurich contributes financially. |
Article types | All article types |
Article quota | Unlimited |
Workflow | Detailed information is available at: SciPost Submit your manuscript via the pre-print server arXiv ; Peer reviews are published as part of an open peer review process. |
Publication model | Gold (Diamond) |
Costs | ETH Library supports the journal Sui Generis with a membership fee. |
Article types | All article types |
Article quota | Unlimited |
Workflow | Authors don't pay publication fees in this journal |
Other funding options
The Swiss National Science Foundation and the European Commission offer special funding options for publications that originate from research projects.
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