| Agreement | Springer |
| Duration | 2020 - 2024 (extended until 06/30/2025) ATTENTION: The APC funding for open access publishing is expected to end towards the end of May 2025 |
| Tipology | Read & Publish |
| Conditions | The agreement provides access to Wiley journals and the possibility to publish on Open access in hybrid journals, without any APCs (Article processing charges) for the authors, starting from July 2020. |
| Eligible authors | 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. |
| Eligible journals | 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. |
| Eligible articles | Original Paper, Review Paper |
| Licenses | CC-BY license. Some journals publish articles under the CC-BY-NC 4.0 license, as indicated in the list of eligible journals |
| Limits and exclusions | 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. |
| Green Open Access | Authors affiliated with the University of Trieste can deposit in the ArTS Institutional Repository or on their personal website the Author's Accepted Manuscript (AAM) version of articles not covered by the Agreement and make it freely accessible with a 12 months embargo. |
| Web pages, tutorials and other materials for further reference | |
| Further information | Contact SBA - Digital library: Michele Codaglio |
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