How to proceed for funding of publication fees with SNSF grants

ETH Zurich’s open-access policy states that "knowledge must be provided at appropriate costs". The ETH Library informs and advises researchers on all matters relating to open access. It also covers the fees for open-access publications. However, when a SNSF-funded journal article is published in a gold open-access journal, the publication fee is covered by the SNSF.

The SNSF has funded open-access publications for years. Its ChronosHub is a low-barrier platform for settling publication fees (also called "article processing charges", APC) efficiently. You can also apply for APC funding after the end of your project. Whenever you, as an author at ETH Zurich, submit an SNSF-funded journal article to a gold open-access journal, you should use ChronosHub to pass the publication fee on to the SNSF.

The ETH Library supports your open-access publications

Our team at ETH Library helps you follow the right funding pathway for your open-access publications.

See our page on SNSF-funded articles: APC funding process for details about the accurate process. Alternatively, contact .

Through consistent triage of the APCs for SNSF-funded articles, the ETH Library remains in a position to expand open access to scientific findings in the future.