All corresponding authors affiliated with and employed by University of Trieste and/or ASUGI - Azienda sanitaria universitaria Giuliano Isontina, 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 many hybrid journals and in the hybrid journals turning Full open access during the term of the agreement.

Complete and up-to-date list of eligible hybrid journals.

Research Article, Review Article, Case Report, Brief Report.

CC-BY license is recommended.

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, with a 15% discount on the list price.

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

Publisher's webpage about the CARE-CRUI agreement