Your institution (CHUV / FBM-UNIL / Unisanté) provides you with partial or full financial support for your Open Access publications. These include Read&Publish (R&P) agreements with a number of traditional and Open Access scientific publishers and the UNIL Gold Fund.

General terms and conditions

1. 1. The corresponding author must be affiliated CHUV /FBM-UNIL/Unisanté on the article and the journal platforms following the guidelines(UNIL guideline 4.3 for CHUV (p.2-3) and UNIL (p.1) and Unisanté_affiliation for Unisanté).
2. 2. Your journal of interest is registred in the DOAJ or Read and Publish lists (below).
3. 3. You select upon signing/concluding the license a CC BY 4.0 license in priority (it is not always the one set by default by the publisher) and as last resort, any other CC license offered by the publisher.
4. 4. The published article must be related to research carried out on behalf of the institution (UNIL/FBM CHUV/Unisanté). The publication is supported during the year following the departure of the researcher

Agreements summary by publisher

• Annual Reviews

  Quota	Validity	Journal type	Discount	Titles	Paper’s type	Requirements
  Unlimited	Ongoing	Hybrid	100%	8 reviews at Annual Reviews	Review paper

• BMJ

  Quota	Validity	Journal type	Discount	Titles	Paper’s type	Requirements
  Very restrictive national annual quota	Ongoing	Hybrid	100%	24 titles covered (BMJ standard collection journals)	Original article inclus : Clinical trial, Original research, Essay, Experimental biology symposia, Protocol, Systematic review, Cohort profile, Quality improvement report	Publisher’s page about the agreement

• BMJ case report - No financial agreement

  UNIL offers an Institutional Fellowships that allows all teaching members, medical staff and students to submit as many cases, as well as access to and reuse of all the published material at no cost. The fellowship costs 522$ once for the corresponding author. The Article Processing Charge costs 750£ per article. The first article of the year costs approx. 1000 chf (one-off fellowship and one APC). Any upcoming article will cost 750£ for a returning corresponding author.

  Contact us to get the institutional code waives  for individuals submitting.

• Cambridge University Press

  Quota	Validity	Journal type	Discount	Titles	Paper’s type	Requirements
  Unlimited	Ongoing	Gold OA & hybrid	100%	Title list covered by the agreement	Research Articles Review Articles Rapid Communication Brief Reports Case Reports	Webpage about the agreement by CUP

• Elsevier

  Quota	Validity	Journal type	Discount	Titles	Paper’s type	Requirements
  Unlimited	Ongoing	Gold and Hybrid Elsevier, Cell Press, Lancet journals, Society journals	100%	Title list covered by the agreement	Full-lenght article Case report Microarticle Practice guidlines Protocol Review article Replication studies Short communication Short survey Video article	Completing the form : VAT/HST/CST Registration Number : No The organisation doesnt have a VAT/GST/CST registration number Tax Exemption : No – No tax examption (No Tax ID How do you want to pay the Article Processing Charge? Request an invoice (with your own name and postal address from your service)

• Karger

  Quota	Validity	Journal type	Discount	Titles	Paper’s type	Requirements
  Unlimited	Ongoing	Gold OA & hybrid	100%	Title list covered by the agreement	Research articles Systematic reviews Case-reports Meta-analyses Methods articles	Select the Gold Open Access option if not set as default and CC BY 4.0 license

• Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW)

  Quota	Validity	Journal type	Discount	Titles	Paper’s type	Requirements
  Annual national quota	2025-2027	Gold OA and Hybrids	100%	Title list covered by the agreement	Resarch articles (including case reports) Reviews	Please follow the indications on the pdf provided by LWW about the submission workflow PLEASE NOTE: You must log in to the platform using the FRENCH affiliation or, at least, the affiliation with Université de Lausanne in French. We recommend using an institutional email address (ending in chuv.ch, unil.ch, hepl.ch or unisante.ch) to complete the process. Otherwise, you will not be recognised as eligible for funding.

• MDPI

  Quota	Validity	Journal type	Discount	Titles	Paper’s type	Requirements
  Unlimited	Ongoing	Gold OA	20%	All journals at MDPI indexed in the DOAJ	All types of articles	Once the discount is obtained, follow the FGOA process (submission of unpaid invoice)

• Nature Branded (Springer) - Hybrids

  Quota	Validity	Journal type	Discount	Titles	Paper’s type	Requirements
  National Annual quota – 205	2029	Hybrids	100%	Title list covered by the agreement	Original Paper Analysis Article> Letter Brief Communication Registered Report Resource Technical Report	The corresponding author must be affiliated with the directive 4.3, use an institutional e-mail address and work from the UNIL/CHUV/Unisanté Network or via VPN Important: for researchers funded by the SNSF, the SNSF affiliation hould no longer be used; the affiliation should be Unil/CHUV/Unisanté

• Oxford University Press (OUP) - Gold

  Quota	Validity	Journal type	Discount	Titles	Paper’s type	Requirements
  Unlimited	Ongoing	Gold OA	10%	All the Fully Open Access titles	Research article Review article Brief report Case report	Make sure to select the CC BY 4.0 license if it is not the default one.

• Oxford University Press (OUP) - Hybrid

  Quota	Validity	Journal type	Discount	Titles	Paper’s type	Requirements
  Annual quota	Ongoing	Hybrid	100% in the Full Collection OUP	Title list covered by the agreement	Research article Review article Brief report Case report	Step-by-step OUP workflow infographic for eligible authors

• PLoS Journals

  Quota	Validity	Journal type	Discount	Titles	Paper’s type	Requirements
  Unlimited	Ongoing	Gold OA	100%	PLOS One PLOS Computational Biology PLOS Pathogens PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases PLOS Genetics PLOS Digital Health PLOS Biology PLOS Medicine PLOS Sustainability and Transformation	All types of articles	Instructions for the 6 first journal of the list

• SAGE - No Deal Situation in 2026

  Quota	Validity	Journal type	Discount	Titles	Paper’s type	Requirements
  Ongoing negociation for 2026						Webpage about the agreement by Sage

• Springer (Springer Nature) - Hybrids

  Quota	Validity	Journal type	Discount	Titles	Paper’s type	Requirements
  Unlimited	2029	Hybrids	100%	Title list covered by the agreement	Original Paper Review Paper Brief Communication Continuing Education	The corresponding author must be affiliated with the directive 4.3, use an institutional e-mail address and work form the UNIL/CHUV/Unisanté network or via VPN Important: for researchers funded by the SNSF, the SNSF affiliation hould no longer be used; the affiliation should be Unil/CHUV/Unisanté

• Springer Nature - Gold

  Quota	Validity	Journal type	Discount	Titles	Paper’s type	Requirements
  National Annual quota	2029	Gold / Fully Open Access – included BMC, Nature and Palgrave	100%	Title list covered by the agreement	Original Paper Review Paper Brief Communication Continuing Education	The corresponding author must be affiliated with the directive 4.3, use an institutional e-mail address and work form the UNIL/CHUV/Unisanté network or via VPN Important: for researchers funded by the SNSF, the SNSF affiliation hould no longer be used; the affiliation should be Unil/CHUV/Unisanté

• Taylor & Francis

  Quota	Validity	Journal type	Discount	Titles	Paper’s type	Requirements
  National annual quota	2024-2027	Open Select Journals (hybrid) Open/Full Gold OA Journals (Gold) Dove Press (Gold) F1000 Research platform (Gold)	100%	Title list covered by the agreement	Definitions of T&F article types can be found at the bottom of the page. Only RA types are covered by our agreements. Article Commentary Brief Report Case Report Data Note Discussion Dissertation Method Note Plain Language Summary Rapid Communication Reply Report Research Article Research Letter Review Article	Step-by-step guide to the submission platform

• Wiley - Gold quota (Fully Gold in the list) reached in september

  Quota	Validity	Journal type	Discount	Titles	Paper’s type	Requirements
  National annual quota	Ongoing	Hybrid and Gold	100%	Title list covered by the agreement	Case study Case study media Commentary Data article Education Lecture Method and Protocol Perspective Practice and Policy Rapid communication Research article Review article Short communication Technical note

• Wiley - Journals transformed into Gold funded until 31.12.26

  Information

  Liste des titres

  The journals on this list transitioned from the Hybrid model to the Gold Open Access model during 2026. However, they remain on the publisher’s list of hybrid journals until the end of 2026 and are supported for Open Access publication. As these journals are effectively Gold, the Green Road is not an option; however, as support is guaranteed until 31 December 2026, there is no issue with publishing in these titles.

  List of titles provided by the publisher, updated in real time

UNIL Gold Open Access Fund

You can only apply to this fund while publishing in Gold Open Access journals (for journals that publish only Open Access content) and if your costs are not covered by other types of external grants (e.g. NSF) or certain Read&Publish licenses.

Conditions of eligibility

• Corresponding Author at UNIL/CHUV/Unisanté.
• Authors who do not have access to an external funding source that can cover this type of cost (e.g. NSF, EC, Wellcome Trust, Bill & Melinda Gates, etc.).
• All types of articles, chapters and books/monographs are eligible.
• Gold Open Access publication. Please note: Hybrid OA (optional OA in a journal that also publishes subscription articles) is not supported by this fund. Check to see if your journal is in the DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals), the reference database that lists Gold Open Access journals that meet required quality criteria. Gold OA publications in journals not listed in DOAJ.org will be considered on a case-by-case basis.
• Publication fees of less than CHF 2800 (excl. VAT) for articles (partial payment not possible – articles with higher publication fees are not eligible) and CHF 5000 (excl. VAT) for chapters and books (partial payment possible). Please note: additional costs such as color charges or per-page charges are not covered by this fund.
• Please make sure to select the CC BY license in order to have maximum rights on your article.
  • For articles, the Gold OA Fund follows the international standard and requires a CC-BY license. A CC-BY-ND licence may be accepted provided that a justified request is made to the fund administration
  • For books and book chapters, we recommend using the CC-BY license, but CC-BY-NC-ND licenses are accepted.

Procedure after paper acceptance

If you are eligible, please fill in the following form only after your paper has been accepted and upload the UNPAID invoice from the publisher via the same form.  UNIL will then pay the publisher directly but CANNOT PROCESS REFUNDS of invoices already paid.