Although the Université de Lorraine recommends avoiding the payment of Article Publishing Charges (APC), some of our subscription agreements include an Open Access component.
Thus, when you publish in the journals of the publishers listed below, as a corresponding author, you may be offered the following options:
- In ACM journals, you benefit from free APCs via our subscription.
- In Elsevier journals (except Cell Press, The Lancet, Trends in…), you benefit from free APCs via a national agreement. Read the terms of agreement and UL recommendations .
- In EDP sciences journals, you benefit from free APCs via our subscription and the Ministry’s support scheme.
- In OLH journals, you get free APCs through our support.
- In 10 PLOS journals (including Plos One), you benefit from free APCs via our agreement. See conditions.
- In hybrid journals (i.e., those that are not fully open access) published by the RSC, you can benefit from free APCs as long as the quota of prepaid articles for France has not been reached; above this threshold, a 15% discount on the public price is applied (as is the case for fully open access journals).