| Agreement | Elsevier |
| Duration | 2023 - 2027 ATTENTION: Fund to cover the costs for publication in Full Open Access journals is exhausted (05/06/2024) It is still possible to publish open access in Hybrid Journals |
| Tipology | Read & Publish |
| Conditions | The agreement provides access to Elsevier Freedom Collection on Sciencedirect platform and the possibility to publish on Open access in hybrid and full open access journals, without any APCs (Article processing charges) for the authors, starting from July 2023. |
| Eligible authors | All corresponding authors affiliated with the University of Trieste at the moment 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 confirmed after both the affiliation with and the permission to publish from the University are verified |
| Eligible journals | It's possible to publish in Core hybrid journal, Full open access journals, some journals of the Cell Press collection. The agreement does not cover APCs for the journals in the Clinics collection, hybrid journals in The Lancet collection, journals that do not provide OA publication, and journals in which OA publication is already supported by research or government entities. |
| Eligible articles | Original paper, Review paper, Case report, Short Communication (starting from January 2025) |
| Licenses | CC-BY license is recommended. The author may as well opt for CC-BY-NC 4.0, however this choice also provides for the transfer of marketing rights to the publisher and therefore its use is not recommended. |
| Limits | Until December 31, 2024: agreement covers APCs up to the nationally limited annual cap, to be shared among all CARE-CRUI participating institutions. Since January 1, 2025: there are no limits or annual caps. ATTENTION: in the event that at the time of acceptance of the article the APC fund is exhausted, the author can choose to publish in a traditional mode (pay walled) or to publish in Open Access mode, covering the costs at his own expense; in the case of fully open access journals it will be possible to publish the article only by covering the costs at your own expense (with a 15% discount from the publisher). |
| Green Open Access | Authors affiliated with the University of Trieste can share on their personal website or in the Institutional Archive (ArTS) the AAM - Author Accepted Manuscript Version of their article published in the traditional way in non-eligible journals with a maximum duration of 12 months embargo . This condition is more favorable than the standard conditions applied by the publisher outside the contract (embargo of average 12-18-24-36 depending on the journal). |
| Web pages, tutorials and other materials for further reference | Publisher's webpage about the CARE-CRUI agreement Publisher's webpages for authors |
| Further information | Contact SBA - Digital library: Michele Codaglio |
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