Overview

As part of the Swiss National Open Access Strategy (PDF), Swiss Universities have negotiated so-called Read&Publish Agreements with numerous major scientific publishers. In addition to read access to the publishers' offerings, members of Swiss Universities, including members of the three Lucerne Universities, can publish Open Access in thousands of journals at no additional cost.

Agreements all 

There is a Read & Publish Agreement with the following publishers for members of the University of Lucerne, the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts and the Lucerne University of Teacher Education, provided they are corresponding authors:

Elsevier 

There is currently no Read&Publish agreement with the publisher Elsevier. This "contractless" situation exists because the Swiss universities have not (yet) been able to agree on a new contract.

Read access: Access to th Elsevier content is provided.

Publishing: Elsevier, Cell Press and Lancet Journals (Gold and hybrid), see List

There is more information on the website of swissuniversities.

Springer 2022-2025

Journals: The contract covers articles in most hybrid Springer journals. (Springer title list).

Publication types: The following publication types are covered by the agreement: Original Paper, Review Paper, Brief Communication, Continuing Education

Wiley 2021-2024

Journals: Publish Open Access without additional costs in around 1400 hybrid journals (journal list); access to around 1500 Wiley journals.

Publication types: Original Article, Review Article, Case Report, Clinical Message, Commentary, Consensus, Drug Focus, Commentary, History, Meta Analysis, Rapid Publication, Technical Note, Tutorial

Cambridge 2021-2023

Journals: Open Access publishing in hybrid and Gold Open Access journals (journal list) at no additional cost; new access to the Cambridge Full Collection.

Publication types covered: Research Articles, Review Articles, Rapid Communication, Brief Reports, Case Reports

Taylor&Francis

Journals: Open Access publishing in hybrid and Gold Open Access journals (journal list) at no additional cost; the number of articles per year covered by the agreement is limited throughout Switzerland.

Sage 2023-2025

Journals: Publish Open Access in hybrid journals and Gold Open Access journals (journal list) at no additional cost.

Article types covered: Original Research Papers, Review Papers, Brief Communications, Short Reports, Case Reports

PLOS 2022-2024

Members of the three Lucerne universities can publish Open Access in six of the PLOS journals at no additional cost.

Further information including title list: Page of the Consortium of Swiss Academic Libraries

Agreements HSLU only

There is a Read & Publish Agreement with the following publishers, which only applies to members of the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts if they are corresponding authors:

Frontiers

Members of the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts can publish in all Frontiers journals at no additional cost: The fee is paid directly via the Open Access Publication Fund of the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts. Authors of the HSLU must register with their institutional email address and indicate the HSLU as affiliation.

Further information includig title list: Website of the Consortium of Swiss Academic Libraries

IEEE 30.11.2021-31.12.2024

Members of the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts can publish in 25 open access journals of the publisher IEEE. Hybrid journals are not included in the agreement. In order to benefit from the agreement, corresponding authors must register with their HSLU e-mail address and indicate HSLU as their institution.

Further information including title list: Page of the Consortium of Swiss Academic Libraries

ACM 1.6.2022-31.12.2025

A Read&Publish Agreement with the Association for Computer Machinery (ACM) has been in place since 1 June 2022. Members of the HSLU can publish Open Access in hundreds of ACM journals at no additional cost if they are Corresponding Authors, register with their institutional e-mail address and indicate the HSLU as an affiliation.

Further information including title list: Page of the Consortium of Swiss Academic Libraries

IOP 2022-2024

A Read&Publish Agreement with IOP Publishing has been in place since 1 January. Members of the HSLU can publish Open Access in around 50 hybrid and almost 20 Gold Open Access journals at no additional cost.

Further information including title list: Page of the Consortium of Swiss Academic Libraries

Agreements UniLu and PHLU only

Oxford 2023-2024

Journals: Publish Open Access without additional costs in the majority of OUP journals (title list).

Procedure

  • Check whether the desired journal is included in the contract (see journal lists above)
  • Submit the article to the publishing platform with the e-mail address of the respective institution (this is used for authentication as a member of a Lucerne university)
  • Select "Gold Open Access" (it must be clear that Open Access is funded under the Swiss Agreement, mention of a Gold Open Access option is not sufficient!)
  • For all publishers except Elsevier, the cut-off date is the date on which the submitted manuscript is accepted; for Elsevier it is the date of submission.
  • The affiliation of the corresponding author determines whether an article can be covered by the agreement.

Contact

Jörg Müller (Head E-Media): joerg.mueller@zhbluzern.ch

Simone Rosenkranz (Head Open Science): simone.rosenkranz@zhbluzern.ch