Coverage of open access publication fees under Read & Publish agreements

Certain contracts signed with scientific journal publishers for access to content, negotiated for higher education and research establishments by the Couperin consortium, now include an open access publication dimension.
Publication costs are therefore borne directly by the institutions under these agreements.
In order to benefit from these Article Processing charges, which are partially or fully prepaid, the author of the article must be affiliated to the subscribing institution when the article is submitted.
Here is a table summarising the publishers with a subscription contract with Sorbonne Université offering this type of prepayment.

 

Published on 4/01/2021 - Updated on 23/01/2025

Editor Disciplines Reviews Discount Information
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Computing All journals (hybrids and gold OA) and proceedings of ACM Prepaid by the BSU Go to page
Cambridge University Press (CUP) All disciplines Full collection (403 reviews) Prepaid by the BSU Go to page
EDP Sciences Sciences 30 reviews Prepaid by the BSU Go to page
Elsevier All disciplines Complete Freedom Collection, Bibliothèque Médicale Française, Cell Press journals, Lancet

-Prepaid by the BSU (subject to annual consortium stock) for eligible journals from CFC and BMF
-10% per article for non eligible journals (including Cell Press et Lancet journals) and for eligible journals once the consortium stock limit is exceeded

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Wiley All disciplines

All revues

 Prepaid by the BSU (subject to annual consortium stock, 3000/year) Go to page

 

 Contact at the Sorbonne University Library : publications@sorbonne-universite.fr

Choice of licence

In the case of publication fees prepaid by the school, we ask you to choose the CC-BY licence. A publication is only open access if it includes an open licence, such as the Creative Commons licences. The CC-BY licence is the most flexible licence and is recommended by research funders such as Horizon Europe and the ANR. Publication under a CC-BY licence allows you to be recognised as the author and gives your readers permission to re-use your work.

 

Submission to HAL

Finally, it is also recommended to deposit the full text in HAL, in accordance with the commitments made in the Sorbonne University charter for open access to publications.
For assistance with submitting to HAL, contact hal@sorbonne-universite.fr or visit the HAL office on Tuesdays from 2pm to 3pm.


Publishing free of charge in the diamond format

Open access publication is not always synonymous with publication costs, since a number of journals charge neither authors nor readers. These are known as ‘diamond’ journals.
Looking for a journal with no publication fees? Use the directory of open access journals (DOAJ): the advanced search allows you to filter for journals ‘Without article processing charges (APCs)’ (filter to be ticked on the left) https://www.doaj.org/
You can also consult the list of ‘diamond’ journals, which is the result of a study commissioned in 2020/2021 by research funders within cOAlition S. This list will continue to be updated: https://tinyurl.com/diamond-journals