If you are affiliated with a participating institution, you may be eligible to publish open access in our journals with fees covered.
Selected Swiss institutions have open access agreements with Springer Nature, meaning that corresponding authors affiliated with participating institutions may be eligible to publish their articles open access with fees covered. The agreements include more than 2,100 journals across the Springer Nature portfolio. From January 2023, this also includes Nature and the Nature Research journals.
Established by Consortium of Swiss Academic Libraries (CSAL), these agreements will run through 31 December 2025.
The OA publication service for the Switzerland CSAL transformative agreement has reached its maximum article allowance for 2024. This means the agreement is no longer covering OA publishing fees until 2025.
The option to publish OA via Springer Open Choice is still available to you, but the publishing fee will not be covered under the CSAL transformative agreement until 01 January 2025. Authors should use alternative funding sources in order to publish OA or proceed with publication under subscription until the agreement is reactivated.
If you need advice on what OA funding is available to you, please visit our funding & support service page. For more information, please contact oa.verification@springernature.com. Alternatively, contact the OA team at your institution.
