All corresponding authors affiliated and in service at University of Trieste on the date of article acceptance are eligible.

Corresponding authors on a fixed-term contract are eligible too: PhD students, postdocs and research assistants, interns in medicine, adjunct professors and so on.

Open Access pubblication is possible only after verification of the affiliation of the corresponding author by the Approval Manager of the contract. 

It's possible to publish in all Springer hybrid journals and in the hybrid journals turning Full open access from 2023.

The agreement does not cover APCs for the Nature journals.

A complete, up-to-date list of eligible journals is available on the publisher's webpage dedicated to the contract.

Original Paper, Review Paper

CC-BY license.

Some journals publish articles under the CC-BY-NC 4.0 license, as indicated in the list of eligible journals

The agreement covers APCs up to the nationally limited annual cap, to be shared among all CARE-CRUI participating institutions. 

In case the cap is exhausted, authors may choose either to publish traditionally or to cover the APCs for Open Access with their own funds; in the case of fully open access journals, it will be possible to publish the article only by covering the costs at one's own expense.

Indicatively, in 2024 the national cap was exhausted around the beginning of October.

Other publication costs such as submission fees, color pages and overlength pages fees, etc. are excluded.

Publisher's webpage about the CARE-CRUI agreement

Publisher's webpages for authors