Transformative agreements

Authors from the University of Urbino have the opportunity to publish Open Access articles without paying APC fees in journals published by the publishers the University has transformative agreements with.

The publishers are:

• ACM (Association for Computing Machinery): Eligible authors can publish the following types of articles in open access without limit: 1. Research articles , 2. Review articles, 3. Conference or proceedings papers, 4. Short Papers, 5. Technical Note / Note, 6. Tutorial, 7. Case Study, 8. Interview, 9. Survey

• ACS (American Chemical Society): currently under negotiation by CRUI/ACS; publications are suspended at the moment

• DE GRUYTER: (updated for 2024) list of eligible publications for OS fee coverage through the CRUI-DE GRUYTER transformative agreement

• Elsevier: includes Hybrid Journals oas well as Cell and Cell Stem Cell from the Cell Press group. (For Gold Open Access Journals, the possibility to publish without APC fees for 2024 has ended)

• Emerald

• Oxford University Press : Eligible authors may publish in open access without restriction in all eligible hybrid journals and the following article types: 1. Research articles, 2. Review articles, 3. Case Reports, 4. Brief Reports. 15% discount on APCs for fully OA (gold) journals outside the hybrid agreement.

• RSC (Royal Society of Chemistry): only hybrid journals are eligible for the contract (vedi l'elenco)

• Springer (including Palgrave and ADIS).  Negotiations with CARE / CRUI are ongoing for 2025, but for articles accepted after January 1, 2025, it is possible anyway to take advantage of OA publication with APC payment coverage; Gold Open Access journals are excluded.

• Wiley: includes both Hybrid and Gold Open Access journals; authors can publish: 1 research articles e review articles, 2. case studies, 3. reviews, 4. short communications

• The corresponding author (the one who takes responsibility among the various authors to submit the article and follow the publication process) submits an article to a journal (it's mandatory to use the institutional email);

• the journal evaluates the article through the peer-review process;

• when the article is submitted, the author can decide to publish it in open access by filling out the appropriate field on the publisher's platform;

• if tokens for OA publication are still available, the publication will occur without additional costs.

IMPORTANT NOTE

The number of articles for which APC fees for OA publication are covered is shared among all Italian universities that subscribe to the contract with that publisher through CRUI; this number is limited, and the possibility of free publication is granted to those who request it first, until the allocated number of articles for Italy is exhausted.