Open Access publishing

There is a large and growing number of renowned open access journals and publishing houses in all subject areas.

Find

The central registry for OA journals is the Directory of Open Access Journals. If you already have a manuscript or an abstract, B!son can be helpful for finding the best journal for it.

Check

You can check the trustworthiness of a publisher or journal using the Think - Check - Submit  checklist.

The oa.finder at the bottom of this page can also be used to gain an overview of the publication conditions of individual journals.

Funding and support

Third-party funding

If your research receives external funding, the funding institution will often also cover the costs of open access publication. Please note that the Swiss National Science Foundation and the European Committees only support publications via the so-called "Golden" route. Article Processing Charges to make individual articles in an otherwise closed journal Open Access (so-called "Hybrid Open Access") are not funded by these institutions.

Publication fund of the university

For publications for which the processing charge (APC/BPC) cannot be covered by third-party funding, the University provides an Open Access Publication Fund. The fund is available to researchers from the Faculty of Theology, the Faculty of Law, the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, the Faculty of Business and Economics and the Faculty of Psychology.

Publication discounts

In addition, there are agreements with many major publishers through which authors from the University of Basel either receive discounts on publication fees or the publication costs are even covered in full. You can find the current overview on this page.