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 and the UNIL Gold Fund.

General terms and conditions

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. Your journal of interest is registred in the DOAJ or Read and Publish lists (below).
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.

Head of Open Access CHUV/FBM-UNIL

Sandrine Pernier

Tél. +41 (0)79 556 45 38; Mail

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 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.

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

Quota Validity Journal type Discount Titles Paper’s type Requirements

Ongoing negociations thank to avoid the publisher during this time

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

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

Step-by-step guide to the submission platform

Wiley - Negotiations 2025 in progress

Quota Validity Journal type Discount Titles Paper’s type Requirements

Ongoing negociations, thanks to avoid this publisher during this 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.

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.

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.

Updated: 10.01.2025

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

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	When concluding the contract, in the form for VAT ID: select NO VAT/Tax ID needed

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

Quota	Validity	Journal type	Discount	Titles	Paper’s type	Requirements
Annual quota	Ongoing	Hybrid	100%	Title list covered by the agreement	Original Paper Analysis Article Letter Brief Communication Registered Report Resource Technical Report	Please comply with the Information for Authors on the publisher’s website.