Covering the costs of scientific open access publications.
The SNSF provides grants to finance scientific publications that are made available immediately, without restriction and free of charge (gold open access). There are three types of processing charges:
Payments for BPCs and BCPCs can be requested via mySNF.
Coverage of APCs must be applied for via the snsf.chronoshub.io platform, within the framework of the ongoing pilot project with the service provider ChronosHub.
Guidelines explaining the various ways to fulfill the open access commitment of the SNSF.
Guide for using ChronosHub.