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The fees for Open Access articles vary greatly depending on the publisher and the journal. The international OpenAPC initiative pursues the goal of making the costs paid by universities and research funding bodies transparently accessible. Interested institutions can submit lists containing paid Article Processing Charges to OpenAPC. OpenAPC stores and publishes the data ordered per […]

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Cogitatio is a Portuguese Open Access publisher founded in 2014. The portfolio of the publishing house includes four Open Access journals in the field of social sciences as well as interdisciplinary sciences.  Researchers at the UZH can publish at no cost in the journals of this publishing house until 2022. It is important to include […]

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Since 1 July 2020, scientists at the University of Zurich are able to publish Open Access articles free of charge in journals published by Springer Nature. The prerequisite for this is an employment by the University of Zurich or affiliated hospitals of the corresponding author of the submitted article. The author must give the e-mail […]

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swissuniversities and the Elsevier publishing house have signed a memorandum of understanding to conclude a Read&Publish contract, which will be valid retroactively from January 2020. It is already possible for all UZH authors to publish free of charge in Open Access in all Elsevier journals. Exceptions to this rule are journals from Cell Press, The […]

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ZORA entries with a full text document are now marked with a lock. The colour of the lock indicates the Open Access type at a glance.  Green – refers to the self-archiving of submitted or accepted manuscripts in repositories. Gold – refers to publications in freely accessible Open Access journals or books. Orange – Hybrid, […]

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Since the beginning of 2019, scientists at the University of Zurich have been able to publish articles* free of charge in journals of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) with Open Access. As a condition, the corresponding author of the submitted article must be employed at the University of Zurich. When submitting the manuscript, the […]

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