The national quota 2024 of 86 articles with financial support covered by the Read and Publish agreement has been reached.

What does it mean for you ?

In both cases described below, the following notification will appear in your workflow :

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• If you submitted recently and the review process is in the beginning
  • Do not choose the Open Access way (called «Gold» publication by the publisher). Choose the green road with a published article under subscription and sharing the author accepted manuscript after embargo in Serval.
• If you are about to submit an article or just did it
  • Do not choose the Open Access way (called «Gold»). >strong>Choose the green road with a published article under subscription and sharing the author accepted manuscript after embargo in Serval.

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 euros (see title list). Make sure that your funders can cover the costs or you will have to pay by yourself (aka your service or lab).

The FBM/CHUV/Unisanté Open Access Teams are at your disposal if you need more information.

sandrine.pernier@chuv.ch

bfm.licences-oa@chuv.ch