Read and Publish

All members of the University of Bern, PH Bern and Inselspital: Students (including postgraduate and doctoral students), assistants, lecturers and professors.

When submitting your applications, please use your e-mail address at the University of Bern, Inselspital or PH Bern. The article must be submitted by the corresponding author.

The authors must be employed by one of the three participating institutions. A position as a private lecturer at the University of Bern is not sufficient.

Articles are submitted on the RSC website in the usual way. When submitting your applications, please use your e-mail address at the University of Bern, Inselspital or PH Bern.

A personal account on the RSC platform is required.

Link to the RSC registration page.

A long period of time may elapse between submission and acceptance. What counts is that the article must have been submitted during membership of the University of Bern and during the life of the agreement with RSC (2020-2023). If this is the case, the article will appear under Open Access in the context of the UB Bern licence.

No. Billing takes place through UB Bern.

The Read and Publish agreement with Wiley relates to all of the publishing house's hybrid journals (i.e. all closed access journals which allow publication of Open Access articles).

Members of the University of Bern, the Bern teachers' training college (Pädagogische Hochschule - PH) and the Inselspital (University Hospital) can publish on an Open Access basis in the Wiley journals which are included in the following list without incurring any costs.

The publish agreement does not cover fully (Gold) Open Access journals from Wiley.

All members of the University of Bern, PH Bern and Inselspital: Students (including postgraduate and doctoral students), assistants, lecturers and professors.

When submitting your applications, please use your e-mail address at the University of Bern, Inselspital or PH Bern.
The article must be submitted by the corresponding author.

The authors must be employed by one of the three participating institutions at the time the article is accepted (acceptance date).
A position as a private lecturer at the University of Bern is not sufficient.

Check whether the journal is included in the following title list.

The Read and Publish agreement only covers hybrid journals.
Financing is not covered by this license if you want to publish in a fully (Gold) Open Access journal.

You can find information on alternative financing options for publication in Gold Open Access Journals on our Open Access page.

No, there are article types that are not entitled to be published under OA. 

According to the agreement, only the following article types will be considered for open access publication:

• Original Articles
• Review Articles
• Case Report
• Clinical Message
• Commentary
• Consensus
• Drug Focus
• History
• Meta Analysis
• Rapid Publication
• Technical Note
• Tutorial

All or most part of the research for the article must have bee carried out at the University of Bern.

In addition, you must be employed as a corresponding author at the University of Bern at the time of the acceptance date.
In order to be assigned to the University of Bern, please select the corresponding affiliation after the article has been accepted by the publisher.

If the article was accepted before or after your employment at the University of Bern, the University of Bern cannot cover the publication costs.

The same applies accordingly to the PH Bern and the Inselspital.

No. Billing takes place through UB Bern.

The licence only covers the publication fees. 

If you choose to use additional publication services (color in print, posters), you have to cover the additional costs yourself.

According to Wiley this is not possible within this Read & Publish license.

If you decide to publish the article Open Access only at a later point, you will have to look for another source of funding. You can find information on this on our Open Access page.

You will be informed personally should your publication request be rejected.

If you think this is a mistake, please reply with a statement why your article should still be published under OA.

If the decision to publish under OA is corrected after re-examination, you will receive a request from Wiley Technical Support to complete the submission form again. This allows the process to continue as normal.