Financial Support for open access scientific publication at CHUV / FBM-UNIL / Unisanté

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, direct agreements and the UNIL Gold Fund.

General terms and conditions

1. The corresponding author must be affiliated CHUV /FBM-UNIL/Unisanté
2. Your affiliation is correct in your article (see UNIL guideline 4.3 for CHUV (p.2-3) and UNIL (p.1) and Unisanté_affiliation for Unisanté) and on journal platforms.
3. Your journal of interest is included in the DOAJ or Read and Publish lists (below), and
4. You meet the eligibility criteria for Gold Open Access licenses, R&P licenses or the GOLD Open Access UNIL fund (detailed criteria for each publisher concerned).

Head of Open Access CHUV/FBM-UNIL

Sandrine Pernier

Tél. +41 (0)79 556 45 38; Mail

Agreements summary by publisher

BMJ case report
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 499£ per article. The first article of the year costs approx. 1000 chf (one-off fellowship and one APC). Any upcoming article will cost 499£ for a returning corresponding author.

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

Elsevier - ONGOING NEGOTIATIONS
Awaiting the finalization of the negotiations, we recommend that you publish by following the GREEN ROAD copyright article accessible by subscription and sharing of the Manuscript author on SERVAL). Depending on the outcome of the negotiations, it will certainly be possible to retroactively convert your article to Open Access. We will contact you if necessary.
Quota Validity Journal type Discount Titles Paper’s type Requirements

Taylor & Francis

Quota

Validity

Journal type

Discount

Titles

Paper’s type

Requirements

2024 : 702 articles

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 agreements

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

More details below

1. 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.

From January 2024 and until further notice, there is no financial support for Elsevier gold journals by the Unil Gold Open Access fund, due to the pending negociations with this publisher.

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 2500 (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-NC 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.

For BMC /Springer Open, MDPI, and SAGE please ensure that partial reimbursement has been applied to your invoice before submitting it to the UNIL Gold Open Access Fund which will complete the reimbursement.

2. Agreements with Gold Open Access journals – Full coverage of APCs

Frontiers Journals

To ensure free APCs, it is imperative not to have a SNSF grant to this research. At the acceptance date, EVEN IF THERE IS QUOTA LEFT, you will receive an invoice. DO NOT PAY THE INVOICE. As long as there is quota left, the invoice will be take in charge by our services.

Conditions	Corresponding author affilié à l’Université de Lausanne, au CHUV ou Unisanté
Discounts	100%
Titles included	tous les titres
Limitations	quota annuel UNIL
Types of papers eligible	Tous les articles (tous types)
Types of distribution licences	Licence CC BY 4.0
Procedures to be followed	To ensure free APCs, it is imperative not to have a SNSF grant to this research. At the acceptance date, EVEN IF THERE IS QUOTA LEFT, you will receive an invoice. DO NOT PAY THE INVOICE. As long as there is quota left, the invoice will be take in charge by our services.

PLoS Journals

UNIL participates in the funding packages offered to institutions, “PLOS Flat Fee”,“Global Equity“ and PLOS “Community Action”.

Thanks to these three new agreements, UNIL/CHUV/Unisanté FBM corresponding authors have the opportunity to publish their accepted articles free of charge and without any restrictions after February 1st, 2022.

Conditions	Corresponding author affiliated at the University of Lausanne, the Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV) or Center for Primary Care and Public Health (Unisanté)
Discounts	100%
Titles included	PLOS ONE PLOS Biology PLOS Climate PLOS Computational Biology PLOS Digital Health PLOS Genetics PLOS Global Public Health PLOS Medicine PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases PLOS Pathogens PLOS Sustainability and Transformation PLOS Water
Limitations	Open Access free of charge for unlimited number of articles.
Types of papers eligible	All type of articles accepted after February 1st, 2022
Types of distribution licence	Licence CC BY 4.0
Procedures to be followed	To ensure free APCs, it is imperative to follow the instructions to authors below when submitting the manuscript on the journal platform: Instructions For PLOS ONE, PLOS Computational Biology, PLOS Pathogens, PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, PLOS Genetics, PLOS Digital Health, PLOS Water, PLOS Climate and PLOS Global Public Health, Instructions for PLOS Biology, PLOS Medicine and PLOS Sustainability & Transformation

3. Agreements with Gold Open Access journals – partial coverage of APC fees

BMC Springer Open

Conditions	Corresponding author affiliated at the University of Lausanne, the Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV) or Center for Primary Care and Public Health (Unisanté)
Discounts	15%
Title included	All titles from Springer Open et Biomed Central
Limitations	Open Access free of charge for unlimited number of articles.
Type of papers eligible	All type of articles
Licence de distribution	Licence CC BY 4.0
Procedures to be followed	Guidelines for authors requesting a membership discount with BMC & SpringerOpen journals. Download a copy here For BMC authors For SpringerOpen authors This discount will be applied automatically in the BMC and Springer Open journal portal if you are properly affiliated and identified as a UNIL or CHUV author on the publisher site upon submission of your paper.

4. Read and Publish license with hybrid journals – full APC coverage

Annual Reviews
Pilot project aimed at flipping subscription journals to fully Open Access journals. In 2020, 5 journals at Annual Reviews will be completely opened with no APCs to be paid by authors:
- Annual Review of Cancer Biology
- Annual Review of Environment and Resources
- Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science
- Annual Review of Political Science
- Annual Review of Public Health
- Annual Review of Biomedical Engineering
- Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics
- Annual Review of Virology
More information infographic .

Cambridge University Press - CUP

Conditions	Corresponding author affiliated at the University of Lausanne, the Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV) or Center for Primary Care and Public Health (Unisanté)
Discounts	100%
Title included	Restricted list of Gold Open Access and Hybrid journals
Limitations	Open Access free of charge for unlimited number of articles comprise in the restrictive list. This agreement is valid for articles accepted after January 1, 2021.
Type of papers eligible	Research Articles Review Articles Rapid Communication Brief Reports Case Reports
Licence de distribution	Licences CC BY 4.0 or CC BY-NC 4.0 or CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 or CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Select preferentially the licence CC BY 4.0
Procedures to be followed	Follow the UNIL guideline 4.3 for UNIL/CHUV and Unisanté_affiliation for Unisanté that specify the way researchers from UNIL and CHUV should declare their institutional affiliation within publications and scientific communications. Please refer to the Information for Authors on the CUP’s website.

Elsevier - ONGOING NEGOTIATIONS
Awaiting the finalization of the negotiations, we recommend that you publish by following the GREEN ROAD copyright article accessible by subscription and sharing of the Manuscript author on SERVAL). Depending on the outcome of the negotiations, it will certainly be possible to retroactively convert your article to Open Access. We will contact you if necessary.
Conditions

Discounts

Title included

Limitations
Type of papers eligible
Licence de distribution

Procedures to be followed

Karger

Conditions	Corresponding author affiliated at the University of Lausanne, the Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV) or Center for Primary Care and Public Health (Unisanté)
Discounts	100%
Title included	Restricted list of Gold Open Access and Hybrid journals
Limitations	Open Access free of charge for unlimited number of articles comprise in the restrictive list. This agreement is valid for articles accepted after January 1, 2022.
Type of papers eligible	All paper types
Licence de distribution	Select preferentially the licence CC BY 4.0
Procedures to be followed	Follow the UNIL guideline 4.3 for UNIL/CHUV and Unisanté_affiliation for Unisanté that specify the way researchers from UNIL and CHUV should declare their institutional affiliation within publications and scientific communications. Please refer to the Information for Authors on the Karger’s website.

Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW)

Conditions	Corresponding author affiliated at the University of Lausanne, the Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV) or Center for Primary Care and Public Health (Unisanté)
Discounts	100%
Title included	Restricted list of Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW) hybrid journals
Limitations	Please note: During the first three years (2022, 2023 and 2024), the number of items supported is subject to a national quota (125, 192 and 261 respectively). Should the number of papers exceed this quota, the publication invoice will be sent directly to the author. This agreement is valid for articles accepted after January 1, 2022.
Type of papers eligible	Research articles (case reports inclus) Reviews
Licence de distribution	Licences proposed CC BY 4.0 ou CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Select preferentially the licence CC BY 4.0
Procedures to be followed	Follow the UNIL guideline 4.3 for UNIL/CHUV and Unisanté_affiliation for Unisanté that specify the way researchers from UNIL and CHUV should declare their institutional affiliation within publications and scientific communications. Please follow the instructions in the following video on how to apply for Open Access funding via the RightsLink platform (the link will be provided by the journal once your article is accepted for publication).

Oxford University Press

Conditions	Corresponding author affiliated at the University of Lausanne, the Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV) or Center for Primary Care and Public Health (Unisanté)
Discounts	100% in hybrid journals from the OUP Full Collection 10% in Gold OA journals
Title included	Restricted list of titles
Limitations	Limited number of supported articles. This agreement is valid for articles accepted after January 1, 2023.
Type of papers eligible	Research article Review article Brief report Case report
Distribution licence	Licences proposed CC BY 4.0 ou CC BY-NC 4.0 Select preferentially the licence CC BY 4.0
Procedures to be followed	Please refer to and follow these instructions for supported APCs in hybrid journals. Important steps: 1. Before taking any action in the OUP online licensing and payment system, check your eligibility by writing to open.access@unil.ch 2. Do not pay any publication fee invoices until you have verified your eligibility. Follow the UNIL guideline 4.3 for UNIL/CHUV and Unisanté_affiliation for Unisanté that specify the way researchers from UNIL and CHUV should declare their institutional affiliation within publications and scientific communications.

SAGE

Conditions	Corresponding author affiliated at the University of Lausanne, the Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV) or Center for Primary Care and Public Health (Unisanté)
Discounts	100%
Title included	Restricted list of hybrid journals
Limitations	Open Access free of charge for unlimited number of articles comprise in the restrictive list. This agreement is valid for articles accepted after January 1, 2021.
Type of papers eligible	Original Research Papers Review Papers Brief Communications Short Reports Case Reports
Licence	Licences proposed CC BY 4.0 ou CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Select preferentially the licence CC BY 4.0
Procedures to be followed	Follow the UNIL guideline 4.3 for UNIL/CHUV and Unisanté_affiliation for Unisanté that specify the way researchers from UNIL and CHUV should declare their institutional affiliation within publications and scientific communications. Please follow the instructions in the Information for authors on the publisher’s website.

Springer Nature

Conditions	Corresponding author affiliated at the University of Lausanne, the Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV) or Center for Primary Care and Public Health (Unisanté)
Discounts	100%
Title included	Nature Research journals are not included in the agreement. Therefore, please consult the restrictive list below before choosing a journal to publish in Open Access. Restricted list of Springer Nature Hybrid journals
Limitations	Please note: During the first three years (2020, 2021 and 2022), the number of items supported is subject to a national quota (690, 1418 and 1430 respectively). Should the number of papers exceed this quota, the publication invoice will be sent directly to the author. This agreement is valid for articles submitted after January 1, 2020.
Type of papers eligible	Original Paper-Standard article, usually presenting new results; articles published under this artiele type may also be referred to as Original Research, Original Article, Original Paper or Research Paper. Review Paper- Standard article, interpreting previously published results. Brief Communication – Short article submitted tor rapid publication that exhibits the same structure as a standard artiele. Continuing Education-Article forming integral part of further education (usually medical).
Licence de distribution	Licences CC BY 4.0
Procedures to be followed	Follow the UNIL guideline 4.3 for UNIL/CHUV and Unisanté_affiliation for Unisanté that specify the way researchers from UNIL and CHUV should declare their institutional affiliation within publications and scientific communications. Be sure to consult this guide in order to benefit from the coverage of your APCs under these national agreements. It is imperative to select the Open Access channel as soon as the manuscript is accepted (“MyPublication” form) as a retrospective request for publication in Open Access is impossible.

Taylor and Francis

Validity	2024-2027
Quota	2024 : 702 articles ; 2025 : 716 articles ; 2026 : 730 articles ; 2027 : 745 articles
Conditions	Corresponding author affiliated at the University of Lausanne, the Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV) or Center for Primary Care and Public Health (Unisanté) on the article and the publisher platform
Discount	100%
Titles included	List of titles covered by the agreements
Journal types	Open Select Journals (hybrid) Open/Full Gold OA Journals (Gold) Dove Press (Gold) F1000 Research platform (Gold)
Article types included	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
Eligible date for acceptance	The acceptance date
Licence Open	CC BY 4.0 offred by default
Procedure	The identification of the authors/the membership of an institution benefiting from the agreement is done on the e-mail address (@unil.ch; @chuv.ch; @unisante.ch) and on the recognition of the IP address of the institution. More information on the submission workflow here and here

Wiley

Conditions	Corresponding author affiliated at the University of Lausanne, the Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV) or Center for Primary Care and Public Health (Unisanté)
Discounts	100%
Title included	Restricted list of hybrid journals
Limitations	Please note: The number of articles accepted is subject to a national quota. Should the number of papers exceed this quota, the publication invoice will be sent directly to the author. This agreement is valid for articles accepted after May 1, 2021.
Type of papers eligible	All primary research and review articles. Other article types e.g. letters, editorials etc. are excluded
Licence de distribution	Licences proposed: CC BY 4.0, CC BY-NC 4.0 ou CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Select preferentially the licence CC BY 4.0
Procedures to be followed	Follow the UNIL guideline 4.3 for UNIL/CHUV and Unisanté_affiliation for Unisanté that specify the way researchers from UNIL and CHUV should declare their institutional affiliation within publications and scientific communications. Be sure to consult the Author workflow guidance from the publisher.

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