Publication discounts
Authors from the University of Basel receive discounts on publication fees from the following publishers or the publication costs are even covered in full by agreements with the publishers. You can find out which publisher publishes a particular journal using the oa.finder:
General
University of Basel authors receive discounts on publication fees from the following publishers or the publication costs are covered in full by agreements with the publishers. Before submitting a manuscript, please find out about the financing of publication fees for your journals. If you have any questions, please contact openaccess@clutterunibas.ch.
The affiliation with the University of Basel is usually recognised by the @unibas email address, via the IP range of the university, or the University of Basel must be selected during the submission process.
Explanation of the Article Quota Status column
For some publishers, the number of articles supported is limited. Once the quota has been exhausted, funding must be organised independently, or the green open access route (at https://universe-intern.unibas.ch/) should be followed instead of the publisher’s open access option. For most publishers, the acceptance date is the authoritative date for verification.
- unlimited: there is no limit to the number of articles that can be published open access by University of Basel authors.
- open: the number of articles that can be published open access by University of Basel authors is limited. As soon as the quota is reached, "closed" will be displayed here. If possible, a time estimate (in brackets) will be made as to when the article quota will be sufficient.
- closed: the limited article quota has been reached. As a rule, a new quota will be available the following year.
Publisher | Article Quota Status | Discount | Author Workflow | Title List | Additional Information |
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AAAS - Science Advances | unlimited | 15% | Science Advances | AAAS Members receive an additional 4% discount.. | |
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) | unlimited | 100% |
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American Chemical Society (ACS) | closed | 100% | For articles whose research is not funded by the SNSF. | ||
| American Chemical Society (ACS) | open | 40% | Workflow | Title list | For articles whose research is funded by the SNSF, the reduced APC of $ 3'000 must be self-financed when publishing in a "transformative journal" (hybrid open access). |
American Institute of Physics | open | 100% |
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| American Physiological Society | unlimited | No APC, but Flat Fee (depending on article type) | Workflow | Title list | Please find more information about the relevant flat fees here. |
| American Society for Microbiology | unlimited | No APC, but Page Charges | Workflow | Title list | Please find more information about the relevant page charges here (the S2O Subscriber tariff applies to the University of Basel). |
| Annual Reviews | unlimited | No APC | Workflow | all journals | |
Biochemical Society/Portland Press | unlimited | 15% | all journals |
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BioMed Central (BMC) | open | 15% | The University of Basel has Open Access Supporter Agreement. With this authors receive a 15% discount on the APC list price. | ||
| British Medical Journal (BMJ) | open | 100% | Workflow | Title list | For Hybrid Open Access Journals (see Title list under "Available to authors from institutions participating in the Read & Publish agreement") |
British Medical Journal (BMJ) | open | 25% | For Gold Open Access Journals | ||
| British Medical Journal (BMJ) | open | 25% | Workflow | For BMJ Case Reports | For BMJ Case Reports, an individual or institutional fellowship is required. The University of Basel has an institutional fellowship and the fellowship ID can be requested via openaccess@clutterunibas.ch. |
Cambridge University Press | unlimited | 100% |
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Cogitatio Press | unlimited | 100% |
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The Company of Biologists | unlimited | 100% | all journals | Not valid for review articles | |
De Gruyter | unlimited | 90% |
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Elsevier | unlimited | 100% | Workflow |
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Frontiers | The University of Basel is not taking part in the Swiss Consortium agreement with Frontiers. There is therefore no central funding for APCs by the university. | ||||
IEEE | closed | 100% | Agreement covers Gold Open Access Journals only | ||
Institute of Physics | unlimited | 100% |
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| John Benjamins | unlimited | 100% | Workflow | Title list | Agreement covers all journals |
Karger | unlimited | 100% |
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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW) | open | 100% |
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MDPI | unlimited | 30% | all journals |
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| Microbiology Society | unlimited | 100% | Workflow | Journal of General Virology | |
Nature Research Journals | closed | 100% | Title list | The article quota has been exhausted since 9 July 2025. Further information is available from swissuniversities. | |
Nucleic Acids Research (NAR) | unlimited | 10% |
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Oxford University Press | open | 100% | 10% discount on APC in "fully open access journals". | ||
PLOS Journals | The University of Basel is not taking part in the Swiss Consortium agreement with Public Library of Science. There is therefore no central funding for APCs by the university. | ||||
Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS) |
| USD 4'995 instead of USD 5'495 |
| Please indicate University of Basel for invoicing. | |
Royal Society | unlimited | 25% | all journals |
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Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) | unlimited | 100% | For Hybrid Open Access Journals | ||
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) | unlimited | 15% | Workflow | Title list | For Gold Open Access Journals |
SAGE | unlimited | 100% |
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SCOAP3 | unlimited | 100% | Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics. | ||
Springer | open | 100% | For Hybrid Open Access Journals by Springer Nature | ||
| Springer | open | 15% | Workflow | Titelliste (Not included in agreement: Gold Open Access Journals from Nature Journal Portfolio, e. g. Scientific Reports) | For Gold Open Access Journals (SpringerOpen) |
Taylor & Francis | open | 100% | New contract from February 2024 includes the gold open access journals from Dove Press and the F1000 Research platform. | ||
| Wiley | open (for publication year 2025) | 100% | Workflow | Title list | New contract from 2025 includes the gold open access journals |