Agreements with Publishers
The University of Geneva negotiates agreements with publishers in order to offer advantageous conditions of publication in Open Access for the institution's researchers. You will find below, in alphabetical order of publisher, an overview of the current deals and, where applicable, their terms and conditions.
FULL COVERAGE OF PUBLICATION COSTS (APC)
| Agreement |
Read&Publish license including access to subscription journals as well as coverage of Open Access publications fees (APCs) for some hybrid journals. Since 2020 |
| Discount |
100% |
| Included titles | Titles in this list |
| Excluded titles |
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| Quota |
The agreement covers an annual quota for all Swiss academic institutions:
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| Eligible articles |
Articles accepted since January 1, 2022, of the following type: peer-reviewed primary research article or review article. |
| License |
License CC BY 4.0 |
| Procedure |
The corresponding author must be affiliated with the University of Geneva and must mention it when he/she submits the article. |
| Validity |
2024 |
| Agreement |
Read&Publish license including access to paid journals and Open Access publication in hybrid and gold journals of the publisher. Since June 2022 |
| Discount |
100% |
| Included titles | The titles in this list |
| Excluded titles | |
| Quota |
Unlimited |
| Eligible articles |
All fully peer-reviewed research articles published in ACM’s magazines, conference proceedings and journals |
| License |
License CC BY 4.0 |
| Procedure |
Authors must simply inform the publisher of their correct affiliation (UNIGE or HUG) so that the publication costs are automatically covered. |
| Validity |
2025 |
| Agreement |
Read&Publish license including access to all journals of the publisher from 1997 if available, and publication in Open Access to most of the titles. Since 2021 |
| Discount |
100% |
| Included titles |
No publication fees for authors in any of the 370+ titles listed here. |
| Excluded titles |
33 non-OA titles listed here (second tab). For these titles, the author can make his or her article Open Access by depositing the Accepted manuscript in the Archive ouverte UNIGE, without embargo for SSH journals, and with 6 months embargo for STM journals. When depositing the published PDF version, a 5-year embargo is required. |
| Quota |
Unlimited |
| Eligible articles |
Articles published after 1 January 2021 and of the type:
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| License |
The publisher's platform offers the choice between a CC BY 4.0 or CC BY-NC 4.0 (or CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 or CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license. The UNIGE OA policy requires authors to select CC BY 4.0 |
| Procedure |
The recognition of the corresponding author is based on the affiliation reported on the publisher's platform, but also on the email address @unige.ch or @hcuge.ch. NB: Authors of eligible articles can retroactively opt for the Open Access option, in the same calendar year as the article publication. |
| Validity |
2023 |
| Agreement |
Institutional membership. Since 2020 |
| Discount |
100% |
| Included titles |
All titles published by CogitatioPress |
| Procedure |
The verification of the affiliation of the corresponding author is done on the basis of his/her @unige.ch email address. |
| Validity |
2022 |
| Agreement |
Read&Publish license including access to subscription journals as well as coverage of Open Access publications fees (APCs) in the publisher's journals. Since 2020 |
| Discount |
100% |
| Included titles |
No publication fees for authors in any of the 2200+ titles listed here. |
| Excluded titles |
Publication costs are not covered for 270+ titles (Lancet, Cell Press, and Learned Society journals). |
| Quota |
The agreement covers an annual quota for all Swiss academic institutions:
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| Eligible articles |
Articles submitted after 1 January 2020 and of the type:
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| License |
The publisher's platform offers the choice between a CC BY 4.0 or CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. The UNIGE OA policy requires authors to select CC BY 4.0 |
| Procedure |
The recognition of the corresponding author is based on the affiliation reported on the publisher's platform, but also on the email address @unige.ch or @hcuge.ch. NB: Authors of eligible articles can retroactively opt for the Open Access option, until 31 January of the year following the article publication. |
| Validity |
2023 |
Step 4 and 5 on the manuscripts management plateform of Elsevier
| Agreement |
Publication agreement with pre-payment amount. Since 2022 |
| Discount |
100% |
| Included titles |
All Frontiers' journal titles (more than 100) |
| Quota |
UNIGE prepaid to the publisher publication costs. Until this amount is exhausted, UNIGE authors publish free of charge in Frontiers journals. Status of the quota: 45% at 1st August 2022. |
| Eligible articles |
Articles of all types, accepted for publication on or after March 1st, 2022. (as long as pre-payment amount is not yet exhausted) |
| License | |
| Procedure |
The recognition of the corresponding author is based on the affiliation reported on the publisher's platform, but also on the email address @unige.ch or @hcuge.ch. |
| Validity |
Starting from 1st March to 31th December |
| Agreement |
Read&Publish license including access to 400+ subscription journals, as well as coverage of Open Access publications fees (APCs) for 24 Gold OA journals. Since December 2021. |
| Discount | 100% |
| Included titles | 20+ fully Open Access titles listed here. |
| Excluded titles | All hybrid journals. |
| Quota |
The agreement covers an annual quota of 44 articles for all Swiss academic institutions. [24 left, as of 04.07.2022] |
| Eligible articles | Peer reviewed article type, accepted since 30.11.2021 (conference proceedings included). |
| License |
The publisher's platform offers the choice between a CC BY 4.0 or CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. The UNIGE OA policy requires authors to select CC BY 4.0 |
| Procedure | The corresponding author must indicate his/her University of Geneva affiliation when he/she submits the article, but recognition is also based on email addresses. |
| Validity |
2024 |
| Agreement |
Read&Publish license including access to all IOPscience extra journals (except for two), as well as coverage of Open Access publications fees (APCs) for 75 journals. Since 2022. |
| Discount |
100% |
| Included titles |
List of included titles. |
| Excluded titles |
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| Quota |
unlimited (no quota) |
| Eligible articles |
Articles accepted since January 1, 2022, of type: All primary research articles, including research papers, special issue articles, letters and review articles |
| License |
License CC BY 4.0 |
| Procedure |
The corresponding author must be affiliated with the University of Geneva. The only thing he/she has to do is to accept the attribution of a CC-BY license to his/her article. Editor's information on the author workflow. |
| Validity |
2024 |
| Agreement |
Read&Publish license including access to the 300+ subscription journals of the publisher, and publication in Open Access in the publisher's ~300 hybrid journals. Since 2022 |
| Discount |
100% |
| Included titles |
All the publisher's hybrid journals. List available here |
| Excluded titles |
All full Open Access (=Gold) journals |
| Quota
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The agreement covers an annual quota for all Swiss academic institutions:
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| Eligible articles |
Research articles (including case reports) or Reviews accepted after 1 January 2022. |
| License |
The publisher's platform offers the choice between a CC BY 4.0 or CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. The UNIGE OA policy requires authors to select CC BY 4.0 |
| Procedure |
Corresponding author must be affiliated with Université de Genève or HUG. This video (3min16) present how to request Request Funding for Open Access Article Processing Charges within the scope of this agreement through the RightsLink platform (link to the platform will be provided by the journal, once the article is accepted for publication). |
| Validity |
2024 |
| Agreement |
Special agreement allowing institutional authors to publish in Open Access for free in 6 of the publisher's journals. Since 2022 |
| Discount |
100% |
| Included titles | |
| Excluded titles |
The other 6 journals published by this publisher |
| Quota | unlimited (no quota) |
| Eligible articles | All types of articles accepted after January 1, 2022. |
| License |
CC BY 4.0 License |
| Procedure |
Corresponding author must be affiliated with Université de Genève or HUG |
| Validity |
2024 |
| Agreement |
Read&Publish license including access to all subscription journals, as well as coverage of Open Access publications fees (APCs) in the publisher’s journals. Since 2021. |
| Discount |
100% |
| Included titles |
All RSC subscription titles (hybrid journals). List. |
| Excluded titles |
All 100% Open Access titles from RSC (gold journals), for which a 15% discount applies [see "partial coverage of publication costs (APC)"] |
| Quota |
unlimited (no quota) |
| Procedure |
The verification of the affiliation of the corresponding author is done on the basis of his or her email address @unige.ch; all that remains to be done is to select the Open Access license CC BY 4.0 (as requested by UNIGE OA policy) when the manuscript is accepted. |
| Validity |
2023 |
| Agreement |
Read&Publish license including access to the Political Science and Sociology collections, since 1999 if available, and Open Access publication in all the publisher's titles. Since 2021 |
| Discount |
100% in hybrid journals and 20% in Gold OA journals |
| Included titles |
No publication fees for authors in any of the 900+ titles listed here. |
| Excluded titles |
For 180 Gold OA titles, a discount of 20% applies. See the list (second tab). |
| Quota |
Unlimited (no quota) |
| Eligible articles |
Articles accepted after January 1, 2021 as long as they are of one of the following types: Original Research Papers, Review Papers, Brief Communications, Short Reports, Case Reports |
| License |
The publisher's platform offers the choice between a CC BY 4.0 or CC BY-NC 4.0. The UNIGE OA policy requires authors to select CC BY 4.0 |
| Procedure |
The recognition of the corresponding author is based on the affiliation reported on the publisher's platform (University of Geneva or University Hospital Geneva). Once identified, the author chooses the "Gold Open Access" option, then selects CC BY 4.0 license. |
| Validity |
2022 |
| Agreement |
Worldwide consortium of libraries for the transformation of Particle Physics journals to Open Access. Since 2014 |
| Discount |
100% |
| Included titles |
11 titles from various publishers (https://scoap3.org/phase2-journals/). In some titles, only High-Energy Physics articles are concerned. |
| Quota |
unlimited (no quota) |
| Procedure |
No specific author's action is required to benefit from this deal. Payment of APCs to the publisher is done directly by SCOAP3. |
| Project details | |
| Validity |
2022 |
| Agreement |
Read&Publish license including access to subscription journals on SpringerLink as well as coverage of Open Access publications fees (APCs) in Open Choice journals of Springer, Palgrave, Adis, and Macmillan. Since 2020 |
| Discount |
100% |
| Included titles |
No publication fees for authors in 2000+ hybrid titles listed here. |
| Excluded titles | Nature branded journals, including Scientific American. |
| Quota |
The agreement covers an annual quota for all Swiss academic institutions:
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| Eligible articles |
as long as the quota isn't reached when they are accepted for publication. |
| License |
The publisher's platform offers the choice between a CC BY 4.0 or CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. The UNIGE OA policy requires authors to select CC BY 4.0 |
| Procedure |
The recognition of the corresponding author is based on the affiliation reported on the publisher's platform, but also on the email address @unige.ch or @hcuge.ch. Once identified, the author chooses the "Gold Open Access" option , then selects, at the next step, the "CC BY" license. |
| Validity |
2022 |
| Agreement |
Read&Publish license covering access to journals from "Human and Social Sciences", "Science and technology" and "Medicine" collections from 1997 if available, and Open Access publication in most of the titles. Since 2021 |
| Discount |
100% |
| Included titles |
No publication fees for authors in any of the 2400+ titles listed here. |
| Excluded titles |
Some (subscription only or Premium Tier 2 Journals) are excluded from the "Publish" part of the agreement, such as. Expert Reviews of ... et Expert Opinion on ... For those titles, the author can make his article open access by depositing the Accepted manuscript in the Archive ouverte UNIGE with a few months embargo (to be checked for each title) on Sherpa Romeo: see this page. |
| Quota |
The agreement covers an annual quota for all Swiss academic institutions:
Articles in Premium Tier 1 Journals should not account for more than 13% of all articles published in Switzerland. |
| Eligible articles |
Articles accepted when the quota has not yet been reached are eligible, provided they are of one of the following types:
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| License |
CC BY 4.0 license. |
| Procedure |
The recognition of the corresponding author is based on the affiliation reported on the publisher's platform (University of Geneva or University Hospital Geneva). but also with email address @unige.ch or @hcuge.ch. Once identified, the author chooses the "Gold Open Access" option, then selects the CreativeCommons CC BY license. |
| Validity |
2023 |
| Agreement |
Read&Publish license including access to 1'600+ journals of the publisher from 1997 if available, and publication in Open Access in most of the titles. Since 2021 |
| Discount |
100% |
| Included titles |
No publication fees for authors in any of the 1'400+ titles listed in this list. There are, however, some titles (about 85) that charge the author additional fees, for example for color figures. |
| Excluded titles | All full Open Access (=Gold) journals |
| Quota |
The agreement speficy an annual amount of money devoted to publication costs for all Swiss academic institutions. It is estimated that this will cover :
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| Eligible articles |
Only articles accepted after 1st May 2021 are eligible and for which the corresponding author is affiliated to our institution. Date of acceptance for publication by the journal is considered with regards to the quota. Article types eligible under this agreement: All primary research and review articles. Other article types (ex. letters, editorials etc.) are excluded ! |
| License |
The publisher's platform offers the choice between a CC BY 4.0, CC BY-NC 4.0 or CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. The UNIGE OA policy requires authors to select CC BY 4.0 |
| Procedure |
The recognition of the corresponding author is based on the affiliation reported on the publisher's platform. Once identified, the author chooses the "Online Open" option , then selects, at the next step, the Creative Commons CC BY license. (decision of the rectorate) See the illustrated procedure. |
| Validity |
2024 |
PARTIAL COVERAGE OF PUBLICATION COSTS (APC)
| Agreement |
Discount offer related to subscriptions (ACS "All Publications") taken by the Library. |
| Discount | USD 250 discount on Open Access publication fees (APC "AuthorChoice") |
| Included titles |
All ACS journal titles |
| Procedure |
The recognition of the affiliation "University of Geneva" of the corresponding author is done during the submission process of the manuscript |
| Validity |
2022 |
| Agreement |
Institutional BMC Supporter membership subscribed to by the Library. Since 2013 |
| Discount |
15% discount on the publication charges (APC) |
| Included titles |
All BMC titles |
| Procedure |
During article submission, select "I believe that I am covered by an institutional membership arrangement and wish to request institutional payment or discount (as applicable)" and choose "University of Geneva" from the drop-down menu or specify membership account number 1600027414. (illustrated procedure) |
| Validity |
23.07.2022 |
| Agreement |
Library subscription program (institutional fellowship) with the publisher BMJ. Since 2010 |
| Discount |
The institutional fellowship allows for publication in BMJ Case Report without the need to subscribe to an individual fellowship. Open Access fees (optional and separate) remain applicable. |
| Included title | |
| Procedure |
Corresponding author must indicate his/her UNIGE affiliation and enter the Fellowship code: SF0263669 |
| Validity | 2022 |
| Agreement |
Discount on publication fees for all authors affiliated with the University of Geneva. Since 2022 |
| Discount |
90% discount on the regular article publishing charge (APC) |
| Included titles | Only for articles published in one of the 59 titles subscribed to by the library. See the tab UNIGE that list. |
| License |
Creative Commons Attribution CC BY 4.0 |
| Validity |
2022 |
| Agreement |
Publication charges reduction offer through Library consortium. Since 2019 |
| Discount |
20% discount on the publication charges (APC) |
| Included titles |
All MDPI titles (more than 200) |
| Procedure |
The recognition of the corresponding author's affiliation is done on the basis of his/her @unige.ch or @hcuge.ch email address. |
| Validity |
2022 |
| Agreement |
Discount on publication fees for all authors affiliated with the University of Geneva. Since April 1st 2022 |
| Discount |
25% discount on the regular article publishing charge (APC) |
| Included titles |
Hybrid titles:
Open Access titles:
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| License |
Creative Commons Attribution CC BY 4.0 |
| Validity |
2022 |
| Agreement |
Offer under the Read&Publish license for Gold OA journals. Since 2021 |
| Discount |
15% discount on Open Access publication fees (APC) |
| Included titles | RSC Open Access titles (gold journals) |
| Procedure |
The verification of the affiliation of the corresponding author is done on the basis of his or her email address @unige.ch; all that remains to be done is to select the Open Access license CC BY 4.0 (as per UNIGE OA policy)when the manuscript is accepted. |
| Validity |
2023 |
| Agreement |
Special clause in the R&P license regarding Gold OA journals. Since 2021 |
| Discount |
20% in all Gold OA journals |
| Included titles |
All Gold OA journals of the publisher (second tab of this list). |
| License |
The publisher's platform offers the choice between a CC BY 4.0 or CC BY-NC 4.0. The UNIGE OA policy requires authors to select CC BY 4.0 |
| Procedure |
Only articles accepted after 1 January 2021 are eligible. The recognition of the corresponding author is based on the affiliation reported on the publisher's platform (University of Geneva or University Hospital Geneva). |
| Eligible articles | Original Research Papers, Review Papers, Brief Communications, Short Reports, Case Reports |
| Validity |
2022 |
| Agreement |
Discount offer related to subscriptions taken at AAAS by the Library. Since 2018. |
| Discount |
10% discount on the amount of the publication fees (APC) |
| Included titles | |
| Procedure |
The recognition of the affiliation "University of Geneva" of the corresponding author is done once the manuscript is accepted for publication, on the RightsLink platform. (Details of the procedure on the publisher's website) |
| Validity |
02.12.2022 |
| Agreement |
Linked with institutional BMC supporter membership subscribed to by the Library. (BMC belong to SpringerNature) |
| Discount |
15% discount on the publication charges (APC) |
| Included titles |
All SpringerOpen titles |
| Procedure |
During article submission, select "I believe that I am covered by an institutional membership arrangement and wish to request institutional payment or discount (as applicable)" and choose "Université de Genève" from the drop-down menu or specify membership account number 1600027414. (illustrated procedure) |
| Validity |
23.07.2022 |
INITIATIVES AND OTHER RESOURCES
The Library is committed to Open Access by supporting a variety of important resources, whether through subscriptions, or by managing the distribution of publication aid for institutional authors.
| Description |
Library support program for an essential archival and dissemination service for physics, astronomy, mathematics... Since 2016 |
| Access to the resource |
| Description |
Library support program for critical infrastructure for Open Access via participation in SCOSS. Since 2021
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| Access to the resources |
| Description |
The Library supports the Directory of Open Access Journal (DOAJ), an essential registry of Gold Open Access scholarly journals. Since 2019 |
| Access to the resource |
| Description |
The University Rectorate has set up a central fund to cover part of the cost of publishing (Article Processing Charges or APCs) in Gold Open Access journals, or for books and books chapters that follow similar principles. Since 2018 |
| Conditions |
The fund can only be used on a subsidiary basis to the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), and never covers charges linked with publishing in hybrid journals. All details and allocation critera are listed on the request application form page. |
| Description |
The Library belongs to the international consortium that financially supports this organisation dedicated to open access scholarship in the humanities. Since 2018 |
| Access to the resource |
| Description |
The Library supports this database of journals/publishers' Open Access policies. Since 2019 |
| Access to the resource |
http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/index.php - nouvelle version : https://v2.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/ |