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. 1. The corresponding author must be affiliated CHUV /FBM-UNIL/Unisanté
2. 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. 3. Your journal of interest is included in the DOAJ or Read and Publish lists (below), and
4. 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).

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	Corresponding Author UNIL/CHUV/Unisanté. See details

• BMC Springer Open

  Quota	Validity	Journal type	Discount	Titles	Paper’s type	Requirements
  Unlimited	Ongoing	Gold	15%	All titles by Springer Open  et Biomed Central	All types of articles	Corresponding Author UNIL/CHUV/Unisanté. See details

• 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 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.

• 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	Corresponding Author UNIL/CHUV/Unisanté. See details

• 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	Corresponding Author UNIL/CHUV/Unisanté. More details

• Frontiers - Quota reached
  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.

  Quota	Validity	Journal type	Discount	Titles	Paper’s type	Requirements
  Annual quota REACHED	Ongoing	Gold OA	100%	All titles	All types of articles	Corresponding Author UNIL/CHUV/Unisanté. More details

• 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	Corresponding Author UNIL/CHUV/Unisanté. See details

• Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW)- Negotiations 2025 in progress

  Quota	Validity	Journal type	Discount	Titles	Paper’s type	Requirements
  Annual national quota	Ongoing	Hybrid	100%	Title list covered by the agreement	All types of articles	Corresponding Author UNIL/CHUV/Unisanté. See details

• MDPI

  Quota	Validity	Journal type	Discount	Titles	Paper’s type	Requirements
  Unlimited	Ongoing	Gold OA	20%	All journals at MDPI	All types of articles	Corresponding Author UNIL/CHUV/Unisanté. See details

• Nature Branded Springer- Quota reached
  The quota of 86 articles for 2024 is reached. There is no more financial support on Open Access publication in those journals.
  Cancellation of the Open Access licence after validation of the article is not accepted. Nature Branded Hybrid Journals APCs cost at least 9’500 EUR (see the list). If you choose to publish in Open Access (this is not Gold publication even if they call it Gold) make sure that your funders can cover the costs or you will have to pay it by yourself (aka your service or lab).

  Quota	Validity	Journal type	Discount	Titles	Paper’s type	Requirements
  Annual quota REACHED	Ongoing	Hybrid	NONE	Title list covered by the agreement	Original Paper Analysis Article Letter Brief Communication Registered Report Resource Technical Report	Corresponding Auteur·e 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	Corresponding Author UNIL/CHUV/Unisanté. See details

• Oxford University Press (OUP) - Hybrid Quota reached

  Quota	Validity	Journal type	Discount	Titles	Paper’s type	Requirements
  Annual quota > Quota reached on 10.12.2024	Ongoing	Hybrid	100% in the Full Collection OUP	Title list covered by the agreement	Research article Review article Brief report Case report	Corresponding Author UNIL/CHUV/Unisanté. See details

• PLoS Journals

  Quota	Validity	Journal type	Discount	Titles	Paper’s type	Requirements
  Unlimited	Ongoing	Gold OA	100%	Title list covered by the agreement	All types of articles	Corresponding Author UNIL/CHUV/Unisanté. See details

• SAGE

  Quota	Validity	Journal type	Discount	Titles	Paper’s type	Requirements
  Unlimited	Ongoing	Hybrid & Gold OA	100%	Title list covered by the agreement	All types of articles	Corresponding Author UNIL/CHUV/Unisanté. See details

• Springer Compact - Quota reached

  Quota	Validity	Journal type	Discount	Titles	Paper’s type	Requirements
  Annual national quota > reached on 14.12.2024	Ongoing	Hybrid	100%	Title list covered by the agreement	Original Paper Review Paper Brief Communication Continuing Education	Corresponding Author UNIL/CHUV/Unisanté. See details

• 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

• Wiley - Quota reached - Negotiations 2025 in progress

  Quota	Validity	Journal type	Discount	Titles	Paper’s type	Requirements
  Annual quota REACHED	Ongoing	Hybrid	100%	Title list covered by the agreement	Original Article Review Article	Corresponding Author UNIL/CHUV/Unisanté. See Details

1. UNIL Gold Open Access Fund

Quota reached
The UNIL Gold OA Fund reached its limit on 14.12.2024, it is no longer possible to obtain funding for articles accepted in 2024.
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 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 - Quota reached

  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. If the quota is reached, the invoice will be due by the author.

  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	All titles
  Limitations	UNIL annual quota REACHED, no more discount offered, standard APC is around 4’000 USD
  Types of papers eligible	All types of article
  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.

  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	No limitations
  Types of papers eligible	All type of articles
  Types of 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	No limitations
  Type of papers eligible	All type of articles
  Licence	Licence CC BY 4.0
  Procedures to be followed	Follow the Guidelines for authors and indicate your affiliation to University of Lausanne upon the submission to benefit from the discount on your APCs. 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.

• MDPI

  Conditions	Corresponding author affiliated at the University of Lausanne, the Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV) or Center for Primary Care and Public Health (Unisanté)
  Discounts	20%
  Title included	All titles from MDPI
  Limitations	No limitations
  Type of papers eligible	All type of articles
  Licence	Licence CC BY 4.0
  Procedures to be followed	This discount will be applied automatically by MDPI 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 Selecte your title and follow the instructions.

• Cambridge University Press - CUP

  Validity	2024-2026
  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	Title list included in the agreement
  Limitations	No limitations
  Type of papers eligible	Research Articles Review Articles Rapid Communication Brief Reports Case Reports
  Licence	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

  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	List of titles included
  Limitations	No limitation
  Type of papers eligible	Full-lenght article Case report Microarticle Practice guidlines Protocol Review article Replication studies Short communication Short survey Video article
  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. Step

• Karger
  Procedures to be followed

  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	No limitations
  Type of papers eligible	All paper types
  Licence	Select preferentially the licence  CC BY 4.0
  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	Annual quota of 261 article for 2024 Upon the quota is reached, the publication invoice will be sent directly to the author.
  Type of papers eligible	Research articles (case reports included) Reviews
  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 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).

• Nature Branded - Springer - Quota reached

  Validity	2023-2025
  Conditions	Corresponding author affiliated at the University of Lausanne, the Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV) or Center for Primary Care and Public Health (Unisanté)
  Discount	100%
  Titles	Title list covered by the agreement
  Limitations	Swiss annual quota – 86 article for 2024
  Type of papers eligible	Original Paper Brief Communication Continuing education
  Licence	Licences CC BY 4.0 or CC BY-NC 4.0. Sélectionner de préférence la licence  CC BY 4.0 Cancellation of the Open Access licence after validation of the article is not accepted by Springer Nature. If you choose to publish in Open Access, please keep in mind that a Nature Branded Hybrid Journals APC costs at least 9’500 EUR. Make sure that your funders can cover the costs or you will have to pay by yourself (aka your service or lab).
  Procedure 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 Nature branded instructions For author on their website.

• Oxford University Press Hybrid Quota reached

  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 Quota reached 10% in Gold OA journals
  Title included	Hybride title list OUP_Journals_Titlelist_2024_GOLD_pour le site>Fully Open Access title list
  Limitations	Swiss annual quota. 304 articles for 2024
  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
  Procedure to follow	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	Title list covered by the agreement
  Limitations	No limitations
  Type of papers eligible	All types of article
  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 Compact Quota reached

  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	The Spinger compact collection included hybrid journals except the Nature Branded journals (see the Nature Branded agreement). See the title list covered by the agreement.
  Limitations	Swiss annual quota. 1566 article for 2024 Should the number of papers exceed this quota, the publication invoice will be sent directly to the author.
  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).
  Licences	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 - Quota reached

  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.

5. Libellus : Practical support for Book publishing

The FBM has established a Book Publishing Support Office to support members of its community who wish to publish a book.
This service is called Libellus and works closely with the BiUM Open Access team.
Libellus can support you and help you from the beginning of your publication project to its final promotion.
Feel free to contact them directly.