If you are affiliated with a participating institution, you may be eligible to publish open access (OA) in our journals with fees covered.
Selected Swiss institutions have OA agreements with Springer Nature, meaning that corresponding authors affiliated with participating institutions may be eligible to publish their articles OA 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.
The contract term for CSAL agreements has ended. This means the agreements are no longer covering OA publishing fees until further notice.
The option to publish OA is still available to affiliated authors, but the publishing fee will not be covered under the agreement. 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.
