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In order to support authors who choose to make their books and chapters immediately available upon publication, Springer Nature has compiled a list of research funders and institutions worldwide that fund open access book processing charges (BPCs) and chapter processing charges (CPCs).

Sources of funding are listed by country, and links to each organisation’s open access funding and policy/information pages have been included where available. Please note that this page currently only shows open access policies for funders or institutions that make open access funding available.

Organisations have been listed only where they have specified that they have funding dedicated for open access books (monographs and/or edited collections) or that their open access funds extends beyond journal articles and may be used for peer-reviewed books and chapters. Where funders and institutions make open access funding for chapters but not for books, this has been indicated by an asterisk (*).

The information on this page is updated regularly, and reflects BPC funding sources to the best of our knowledge. To suggest updates or additions to this list, please contact us at OAfundingpolicy@springernature.com.

To find out about funding for open access articles, see our list of organisations that provide funding for article processing charges (APCs).

NOTE: As of the start of 2024, UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) has instituted an open access mandate for certain research outputs published as books or book chapters. For more information on the mandate and the corresponding open access fund that has been made available, please see the links below under UK-->UK Research and Innovation.

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The information on this page is updated regularly, and reflects BPC funding sources to the best of our knowledge. To suggest updates or additions to this list, please contact us.

OAfundingpolicy@springernature.com

Funders and institutions A-Z index

Austria

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Austrian Science Fund, FWF (Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung)

DEBRA International	Funding information
Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research (CGIAR)	Open Access policy Funding information

Delft University of Technology (Technische Universiteit Delft)	Funding information
Utrecht University, UU (Universiteit Utrecht)	Funding information

Action on Hearing Loss	Funding information
Department for International Development, DFID	Open Access policy Funding information
Leverhulme Trust	Funding information
UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)	Open Access policy Funding information
Wellcome Trust, WT	Open Access policy Funding information

University of Kent	Funding information
Northumbria University	Open Access policy Funding information
Oxford Brookes University	Funding information
Reading University	Funding information

International Development Research Centre, IDRC	Funding information
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, SSHRC	Funding information
Weston Brain Institute	Funding information

Carleton University	Funding information
Simon Fraser University*	Funding information
University of British Columbia	Funding information
University of Victoria	Funding information

Bielefeld University	Funding information
Free University Berlin	Funding information
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf	Funding information
Humboldt University of Berlin (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)	Open Access policy Funding information
Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz	Funding information
Leibniz University of Hannover (Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover)	Funding information
Technical University of Berlin (Technische Universität Berlin)	Open Access policy Funding information
Technical University of Braunschweig (Technische Universität Braunschweig)	Funding information
University of Duisburg-Essen	Funding information
University of Konstanz (Universität Konstanz)	Open Access policy Funding information
University of Passau (Universität Passau)	Funding information
University of Potsdam	Funding information
ZB MED (German National Library of Medicine) - Leibniz Information Centre for Life Sciences, Cologne and Bonn	Funding information

Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)	Open Access policy Funding information
Oslo Metropolitan University (OsloMet)	Funding information
University College of Southeast Norway (Porsgrunn Campus) Formerly Telemark University College, HSN (Høgskolen i Sørøst-Norge (Formerly Høgskolen i Telemark))	Funding information
University of Agder (Universitetet i Agder)	Funding information
University of Bergen, UiB (Universitetet i Bergen)	Funding information
University of Tromsø / Arctic University of Norway, UiT (Universitetet i Tromsø / Norges arktiske universitet)	Funding information
Western Norway University of Applied Sciences (Høgskulen på Vestlandet)	Funding information

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, EPFL (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne)	Open Access policy Funding information
University of Basel (Universität Basel)*	Open Access Policy Funding information
University of Bern (Universität Bern / Université de Berne)	Funding information
University of Geneva (Université de Genève)	Open Access policy Funding information
University of Zurich, UZH (Universität Zürich)	Open Access policy Funding information

American Cancer Society	Funding information
Autism Speaks	Funding information
James S. Mcdonnell Foundation	Funding information
Lung Cancer Research Foundation	Funding information
Simons Foundation	Open Access policy Funding information
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration	Funding information
The Medical Foundation - A division of Health Resources in Action	Funding information
US Department of Energy	Open Access policy Funding information
US Environmental Protection Agency	Funding information

Boston College	Funding information
Dickinson College	Funding information
Emory University	Open Access policy Funding information
Florida State University	Funding information
Gettysburg College	Funding information
Gustavus Adolphus College	Funding information
Miami University	Funding information
Portland State University	Funding information
Princeton University	Funding information
Rowan University	Funding information
Tufts University, Medford	Funding information
University of California, Berkeley	Funding information
University of California, San Francisco, UCSF	Open Access policy Funding information
University of Michigan, UM	Funding information
University of Northern Colorado, UNC	Funding information
University of Oklahoma, UO	Funding information
University of Wisconsin-Madison	Funding information
Wake Forest University, WFU*	Funding information
West Virginia University, WVU*	Funding information

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