SNSF financing of articles (APCs)
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From 1 January 2025, the SNSF will change its funding instrument to cover Open Access fees for SNSF-funded publications in pure Open Access journals. The SNSF will only pay APC invoices directly to the publishers via its service provider ChronosHub. Invoices that have already been paid will no longer be reimbursed (unless submitted by 31 December 2024).
All the other conditions of the SNSF Open Access fund will remain unchanged:
- The article must be freely accessible in a high-level peer-reviewed purely Open Access journal;
- The funding provided by the SNSF must be mentioned in the article (acknowledgement);
- Open Access articles that appear in special issues are not funded by the SNSF (since February 2024);
- Open Access publication funding is awarded independently of any ongoing grants, i.e. it can also be requested after the project has ended.
The SNSF introduced this instrument in mid-2018, resulting in a significant and continued demand for article funding from researchers. In its first full year of operation (2019), the SNSF spent 1,531,543 CHF through the Open Access fund. By 2023, this amount had more than doubled, with total expenditures reaching nearly 4 million CHF.
Approximately half of these fees (51% in 2022 and 45% in 2023) were paid to Springer Nature, Frontiers and MDPI, the three publishers most frequently selected by researchers for publishing in pure Gold Open Access journals. More information and data are available on the SNSF website.
For any further question you may have about Open Access financial support, please do not hesitate to contact [email protected].