APC Reductions
Thanks to contracts between the University and various publishing houses, researchers at the University of Fribourg have the possibility to publish their articles in Open Access at reduced prices or even free of charge.
Here is the complete list of these discounts. We recommend to consult also the list of over 10'000 Gold Open Access journals that don't require any APC.
Attention
- Always use your e-mail address @unifr.ch in correspondence with the publisher to benefit from this discounts.
- For some agreements (notably with Elsevier, Springer Nature, Taylor & Francis and Wiley) there is a limited national quota.
| Publisher | Reductions | Conditions | Additional Information |
|---|---|---|---|
| American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) - Sciences Advances | 15% | InformationJournal | |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) | Reduction of USD 250 or USD 750 |
USD 3750 instead of USD 4000 for university members USD 3250 for individual members of ACS | Information |
| American Institute of Physics (AIP) |
100% (hybrid) National Quota! | Articles accepted from 1 January 2022 | InformatonsJournals |
| Cambridge University Press (CUP) | 100% | InformatonsJournals | |
| Elsevier |
100% National Quota! |
Articles submitted from 1 January 2020 all conditions and workflow | InformationJournals |
| Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) |
100% (gold) National Quota! | Articles accepted from 1 January 2022 | Journals |
| Institute of Pysics Publishing (IOP) | 100% | Articles accepted from 1 January 2022 | InformationsJournals |
| Karger Publishers | 100% | Journals | |
| MDPI | 15% | Information | |
| Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) | Reduction of USD 500 | Reduction of USD if the article is publishd under default license (CC BY-NC-ND) | InformationsJournals |
| Royal Society | 25% | InformationJournal | |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) |
100% (hybrid) 15% (gold) | Information | |
| SAGE Publishing |
100% (hybrid) 20% (gold) | InformationsJournals | |
| SCOAP3 | 100% | Information | |
| Springer Nature (subscription journals) |
100% (hybrid) National Quota! |
Articles accepted from 1 July 2020 all conditions and workflow | InformationJournals |
| Taylor & Francis |
100% National Quota! | InformationJournals | |
| Wiley |
100% National Quota! |
Articles accepted from 1 May 2021 all conditions and workflow | InformationJournals |