This page is intended to provide some basic information on Open Access (OA) publishing and how to select a journal where we can publish since there is a price tag attached to it.
DORA, short for "Digital Object Repository at", is the institutional repository and bibliography of the four ETH Domain research institutes (Eawag, Empa, PSI, and WSL), hosted by Lib4RI acting simultaneously as Open Access (OA) Repository, Bibliography, and Archive. It is therefore the location where preprints and publications are collected. For PSI this is done via the DORA PSI webpage.
Since most of our funding for the work we do is grant-based, many national and international research funders have policies in place requiring grant holders to make any resulting publications OA. The question is, which journals/publishers offer OA and the ETH domain has an agreement with, and what are the boundary conditions like publication charges.
The publishers offer a full or partial discount on Open Access publication fees to authors affiliated with Eawag, Empa, PSI, or WSL. On DORA, you will find the elegibility criteria to publish an Open Access article. These are
- what is the Corresponding author affiliation,
- the journal you wish to publish in must be on the list of eligible titles,
- what type of article you would like to publish since not all article types are included in the agreements,
- there is a maximum number of articles that can be accepted under an agreement in a calendar year (article quota),
- and the agreement with ACS excludes all articles that acknowledge funding by the SNSF.
On the same page, there is a listing of all publishers offering either a full or partial funding when publishin OA. Alternatively, search with the Lib4RI Search Tool which journal is eligible for free Open Access or check out the directory of OA journals, the indexed journal by Web of Science or Scopus:
Equally useful is to go through the list of funding conditions.