SciPost Sponsors
We cordially invite organizations worldwide to join our Sponsorship scheme, and make Genuine Open Access a reality.
Is your organization benefitting from SciPost's activities (check our organizations page), and does it not appear in our list of Sponsors below? Then consider helping SciPost:
Are you a scientist?
Please petition your local librarian/director/... to consider sponsoring us. You can use this email template.
Are you a librarian, funding agency representative or other potential supporter?
Take a look at our Sponsorship Agreement template, and contact us at sponsors@scipost.org to enquire about further details or initiate your sponsorship.
Community service; no user fees
SciPost does not charge any subscription fees or article processing charges (APCs): all our operations are performed as a community service, with no user-facing charges;
Our initiative's scope is resolutely international: we do not impose any geographical or institutional restrictions on the delivery of our services;
SciPost is dedicated to serving the academic community, with no further conflicts of interest.
Quality through Openness
Our sharp focus on openness through our peer-witnessed refereeing procedure equips us with arguably the most stringent editorial quality control system available;
Our Editorial College is composed of a broad selection of top academics;
Our fully professional publishing services meet or surpass best practices in all respects. Our flagship journal SciPost Physics has been awarded the DOAJ Seal.
Community funded
Our operations are obviously not without cost, but our strictly not-for-profit setup, community-led workflow, streamlined infrastructure and no-frills administration mean that the average per-publication costs are much lower than those of competing services;
Our financing model relies on sponsorship from the organizations which benefit from our activities (see our organizations page);
All sponsorship funds are pooled and exclusively used to run our infrastructure and services.
We aim to establish a healthier business model for scientific publishing
We are able to run a fully sustainable infrastructure at an estimated cost of under €400 per publication, much below the current norm for APCs. The more scientists shift their publishing to SciPost, the fewer subscription/article processing charges you will have to pay as an organization. Your sponsorship will help us scale up and make our initiative sustainable.
Our recent Sponsors
Current Sponsors
Institute of Physics, University of Amsterdam
Fonds National pour la Science Ouverte
(French National Fund for Open Science)
NiedersachsenOPEN
Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek
(Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research)
Konsortium der sächsischen Hochschulbibliotheken
(Consortium of Saxon university libraries)
Max Planck Digital Library
Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung
(FWF Austrian Science Fund)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Technische Informationsbibliothek – Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology
University of Pittsburgh
Paul Scherrer Institute
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
(Spanish National Research Council)
Imperial College London
Leibniz-Institut für Festkörper- und Werkstoffforschung Dresden
(Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research)
Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati
(International School for Advanced Studies)
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
(Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich)
Institute of Science and Technology Austria
Technische Universität Braunschweig
(Braunschweig University of Technology)
Eidgenössische Materialprüfungs- und Forschungsanstalt
(Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology)
Eidgenössische Anstalt für Wasserversorgung, Abwasserreinigung und Gewässerschutz
(Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology)
Eidgenössische Forschungsanstalt für Wald, Schnee und Landschaft
(Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research)
Consortium Unifié des établissements Universitaires et de recherche pour l'accès aux publications numériques
(Academic Consortium for Electronic Publications)
Library for the Research Institutes within the ETH Domain
Swiss Library Service Platform
Last year's Sponsors:
(excludes current sponsors)
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
(French National Centre for Scientific Research)
Fonds Pythagore pour la Science et l’Education
(Pythagoras Fund for Science and Education)
University of Oxford
Organisation européenne pour la recherche nucléaire
(European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich
(Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH))
Stanford University
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Stockholm University
University of Bristol
Université Libre de Bruxelles
University of Bern
Centro Internazionale di Fisica Teorica Abdus Salam
(Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics)
University of Manchester
University of Waterloo
University of Melbourne
Forschungszentrum Jülich
RWTH Aachen University Physics Library
QuTech
University of Queensland
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
(University of Erlangen-Nuremberg)
Université catholique de Louvain
Technische Universiteit Eindhoven
(Eindhoven University of Technology)
The University of Texas at Austin
Stiftelsen for Industriell og Teknisk Forskning
(The Foundation for Scientific and Industrial Research)
Norges Teknisk-Naturvitenskapelige Universitet
(Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
Universitetet i Tromsø
(University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway)
Norges Miljø- og Biovitenskapelige Universitet
(Norwegian University of Life Sciences)
Kunnskapssektorens Tenesteleverandør
(Norwegian Agency for Shared Services in Education and Research)
Our past Sponsors
University of California System
OpenAIRE
CNRS Institut de Physique
Benefactor [2018-11-12]
University of Surrey
Université de Lorraine
Durham University
Sächsische Landesbibliothek – Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden
(Saxon State and University Library Dresden)
École Normale Supérieure de Lyon
Vereniging van Samenwerkende Nederlandse Universiteiten
(Association of universities in the Netherlands)
Harvard University
University of Sussex
University of Glasgow
University of Birmingham
University of Cambridge
University College London
University of Sheffield
Donostia International Physics Center
Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg
(Hamburg State and University Library)
European Research Council
Quantum Matter Bordeaux
Institute for Advanced Study
King's College London
Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften
(Austrian Academy of Sciences)
Commissariat à l'énergie Atomique et aux énergies Alternatives
(Atomic Energy and Alternative Energies Commission)
Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics
University of Southampton
Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
(Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz)
Jonge Academie
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Cosmic Ray Laboratory at TIFR
Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Department of Physics, Technion
University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Santa Barbara
University of California, Davis
University of California Los Angeles
University of California, San Diego
University of California, San Francisco
University of California, Irvine
University of California, Santa Cruz
University of California, Riverside
University of California, Merced
Ministère de l’Enseignement supérieur, de la Recherche et de l’Espace
(Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Space)