3. 360 Support

Platinum road



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Shared Open Access Publishing Platform

SOAP2 (Shared Open Access Publishing Platform) is a joint project of the University of Fribourg (leading house), the University of Lausanne, the Central and University Library of Lucerne (together with the University of applied sciences of Lucerne), the University of Neuchâtel, and the University of teacher education of the Canton of Vaud.

It is financed by swissuniversities with CHF 164’400 from 1 July 2021 to 30 June 2023.

The core of the project is an online publishing platform that will be setup and managed by an external service provider. This allows the project partners to concentrate their main efforts on the development of a variety of service offers around the platform (which will be available in autumn 2021) and to share the costs of the technical management. 

Are you an editor of a UNIL journal?

If you are an editor of a journal at UNIL and you would be interested in using a powerful publication platform or you would like to render your journal Open Access, come an visit our website and contact us!

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Gold road

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The Gold Road (immediate Open Access publication with a processing fee) is open to articles, chapters and books.

As a general rule, always use your third-party funds to cover the Gold OA fee (most funders cover it!).

If you do not have external funding sources and check our Gold OA Fund.

Book chapters

To find a source of funding for your Gold OA book chapter please follow the steps below:

  1. The SNSF covers the costs   of Gold OA publishing for book chapters that result from an SNSF-funded research project.
  2. If your book is not eligible for the SNSF Gold OA funding, check if you are eligible for our UNIL Gold OA Fund. 

Books

To find a source of funding for your Gold OA book please follow the steps below:

  1. The SNSF covers the costs of Gold OA publishing for monographs, dissertations and habilitations as well as for collective works, whether or not they are the result of SNSF-funded research.
  2. If your book is not eligible for the SNSF Gold OA funding, check if you are eligible for our UNIL Gold OA Fund. 

Articles

To find a source of funding for your Gold OA publication please follow the steps below:

  1. Check if your article is eligible to be covered by one of our institutional licences. You can check this with our Journal Finder, with Papago, or by looking at our licence details below.
  2. If your article is not eligible, ask your external funder to cover the costs. Most funders cover the costs associated with the Gold OA.
  3. If you do not have an external funding source, check if you are eligible for our UNIL Gold OA Fund.
  4. If your paper is not eligible, then consider submitting your paper to another journal.


List of institutional licences for Gold OA and their conditions:

Requirements:

  • The corresponding author of the submitted article must be a member of UNIL/CHUV.
  • The details of the affiliation in the article must clearly indicate the affiliation of the author with UNIL/CHUV. Please follow the indications in Directive 4.3 regarding author affiliation.
  • Ideally, the author will use his/her ORCID.
  • Whenever possible, use your @unil or @chuv e-mail address to make the submission.

Green road

The Green Road refers to Open Access publishing by depositing a version of the manuscript in Serval and opening it after an embargo period.

In order to enable them to fulfil their OA mandates, UNIL offers their researchers its institutional repository, Serval, to self-archive and follow the Green Road.

UNIL researchers can request funding for Green OA for books through the Fonds de publications UNIL.

Short guide on Open Access in Swiss Law

Click on the image below to download the guide

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Templates for the negotiation of embargo periods with publishers

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Here you can download the English template with which you can negotiate a shorter embargo period with your publisher.

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Here you can download the French template with which you can negotiate a shorter embargo period with your publisher.

Hybrid road

The Hybrid Road refers to the immediate OA publishing of an article in a subscription journal. These are journals in which some of the articles are available in OA and the others behind a paywall.

UNIL supports this option exclusively within the framework of institutional licenses with major publishing houses (fees paid directly by the license) shown below.

If your title is not eligible for support by one of our licences, UNIL recommends that you follow the Green Road.

List of institutional licences for hybrid OA and their conditions:

Requirements:

  • The corresponding author of the submitted article must be a member of UNIL/CHUV.
  • The details of the affiliation in the article must clearly indicate the affiliation of the author with UNIL/CHUV. Please follow the indications in Directive 4.3 regarding author affiliation.
  • Ideally, the author will use his/her ORCID.
  • Whenever possible, use your @unil or @chuv e-mail address to make the submission.