Publishing in Open Access @UNIPR

Agreement Validity

May 1, 2022-December 31, 2025

Who Can Publish

Corresponding authors formally affiliated with the university on the date of acceptance of articles are "eligible", provided they use the institutional email address (domains: @unipr.it and @studenti.unipr.it) for submission and declare as their first, or only, affiliation the University of Parma.

"Eligible" corresponding authors also include those on fixed-term contracts (contract professors, research fellows, PhD students, post-doctoral researchers, trainees, scholarship holders) who are formally affiliated with the university at the time of article acceptance (i.e., with an active contract). In this case as well, it is necessary to use the institutional email address and declare the University of Parma as the primary affiliation.

If the article has more than one corresponding author, such as one author from the University of Parma and one from another institution, the affiliation will be verified, and consequently the attribution of the article to the institution that signed the agreement, will be based on the author who submitted the article.

What To Publish

ACM allows the following types of articles to be published:

• Research articles
• Review articles
• Conference or proceedings papers
• Short Papers
• Technical Note / Notes
• Tutorial
• Case Study
• Interview
• Survey

Where To Publish

The list of ACM publications eligible for open access publication is available at the following page: ACM Publications Eligible for Open Access Publishing Under ACM OPEN.

How Much Does It Cost

The APCs (Article Processing Charges) are fully covered by the University. In the event that funds are exhausted, this will be indicated here.

How To Publish

The publication procedures are detailed at Submissions (acm.org)

An editor's tutorial is available on YouTube at this address https://youtu.be/sUGEoPaXRKQ

Publication workflow used by ACM.

Licenses Allowed

The publishing license allowed by the agreement is:

• CC BY 4.0: Creative Commons - Attribution 4.0 International - CC BY 4.0

For an explanation of Creative Commons licenses it may be helpful to consult the https://creativecommons.it/chapterIT/index.php/license-your-work/ page.

Agreement Validity

01/01/2020-31/12/2023

[Update of 13/12/2024]: CARE has informed that, for the year 2024, neither retrospective conversion to OA nor retrospective refund of APCs paid for publications in OA are foreseen.

[Update on 03-02-2025]: CARE informed that, for the year 2025, while waiting for the new agreement to be finalized, ACS decided to reactivate the open access publication procedure.

Who Can Publish

Corresponding authors formally affiliated with the university on the date of acceptance of articles are "eligible", provided they use the institutional email address (domains: @unipr.it and @studenti.unipr.it) for submission and declare as their first, or only, affiliation the University of Parma.

"Eligible" corresponding authors also include those on fixed-term contracts (contract professors, research fellows, PhD students, post-doctoral researchers, trainees, scholarship holders) who are formally affiliated with the university at the time of article acceptance (i.e., with an active contract). In this case as well, it is necessary to use the institutional email address and declare the University of Parma as the primary affiliation.

If the article has more than one corresponding author, such as one author from the University of Parma and one from another institution, the affiliation will be verified, and consequently the attribution of the article to the institution that signed the agreement, will be based on the author who submitted the article.

What To Publish

All peer-reviewed articles.

Where To Publish

The agreement provides for the possibility of publishing articles in Open Access in the journals indicated in THIS PAGE on the publisher's website.

How Much Does It Cost

The APCs (Article Processing Charges) are fully covered by the University. If funds are exhausted, this will be indicated here.

How To Publish

How to publish is indicated on the following page https://acsopenscience.org/researchers/publish-oa/.

Licenses allowed

The publication license allowed by the agreement is:

CC BY 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode.it

For an explanation of Creative Commons licenses it may be helpful to consult the https://creativecommons.it/chapterIT/index.php/license-your-work/ page.

Agreement Validity

01/01/2025 - 31/12/2025

Who Can Publish

Corresponding authors formally affiliated with the university on the date of acceptance of articles are "eligible", provided they use the institutional email address (domains: @unipr.it and @studenti.unipr.it) for submission and declare as their first, or only, affiliation the University of Parma.

"Eligible" corresponding authors also include those on fixed-term contracts (contract professors, research fellows, PhD students, post-doctoral researchers, trainees, scholarship holders) who are formally affiliated with the university at the time of article acceptance (i.e., with an active contract). In this case as well, it is necessary to use the institutional email address and declare the University of Parma as the primary affiliation.

If the article has more than one corresponding author, such as one author from the University of Parma and one from another institution, the affiliation will be verified, and consequently the attribution of the article to the institution that signed the agreement, will be based on the author who submitted the article.

What To Publish

All peer-reviewed articles.

Where To Publish

You can publish in hybrid and gold open access journals.

LIST OF BENTHAM JOURNALS by disciplinary area.

How Much Does It Cost

Article Processing Charges (APCs) are paid in full by the University.

How To Publish

• Download the instructions for authors in Italian: https://biblioteche.unipr.it/Bentham_Guida_Autori

or

• Consult the full manuscript submission procedure on the publisher's website (in ENGLISH): https://bentham.manuscriptpoint.com/manuals/author_tutorial.pdf

Licenses Allowed

The publishing license allowed by the agreement is:

• CC BY 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode.it

For an explanation of Creative Commons licenses it may be helpful to consult the https://creativecommons.it/chapterIT/index.php/license-your-work/ page.

Agreement Validity

01/01/2023-31/12/2024 - Extended until 12/31/2025

[Update from CARE on 29/05/2025] The publisher BMJ has informed us that the Gold OA fund has been exhausted.

The fund for OA publication in hybrid journals is unlimited.

The agreement provides the opportunity for authors from member Institutions to publish scientific articles under an Open Access license in BMJ Hybrid Journals and BMJ Gold OA Journals at no cost to the authors. The fund for publication in the Hybrid Journals is unlimited, whereas the fund for publication in the BMJ Gold OA Journals is not (see below under "How Much Does It Cost" for more information).

Who Can Publish

Corresponding authors formally affiliated with the university on the date of acceptance of articles are "eligible", provided they use the institutional email address (domains: @unipr.it and @studenti.unipr.it) for submission and declare as their first, or only, affiliation the University of Parma.

"Eligible" corresponding authors also include those on fixed-term contracts (contract professors, research fellows, PhD students, post-doctoral researchers, trainees, scholarship holders) who are formally affiliated with the university at the time of article acceptance (i.e., with an active contract). In this case as well, it is necessary to use the institutional email address and declare the University of Parma as the primary affiliation.

If the article has more than one corresponding author, such as one author from the University of Parma and one from another institution, the affiliation will be verified, and consequently the attribution of the article to the institution that signed the agreement, will be based on the author who submitted the article.

What and Where To Publish

The agreement provides for publication in OA in the BMJ Hybrid Journals of this LIST and publication in OA in the BMJ Gold OA of this LIST. The lists also include the types of articles.

How Much Does It Cost

Article Processing Charges (APCs) are fully covered by the University and the fund is unlimited for hybrid journals.

The fund for publishing in gold journals has run out [update from CARE on 29/05/2025]

How To Publish

How to publish is indicated HERE

The corresponding author must necessarily declare as their first, or only, affiliation the University of Parma and use the institutional email address (@unipr.it).

Licenses Allowed

Publication licenses allowed by the agreement, depending on the journals, are:

• CC-BY-NC: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode.it
• CC-BY 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode.en

For an explanation of Creative Commons licenses it may be useful to consult the page:
https://creativecommons.it/chapterIT/index.php/license-your-work/

RETROSPECTIVE CONVERSION AND REFUND FOR AUTHORS

Since the agreement is valid from January 1, 2023, and the stipulation was later, the following are provided:

• refund of the APCs already paid for articles published in open access on hybrid journals from January 1, 2023 to June 30, 2024
• refund of the APCs already paid for articles published in open access on gold OA journals from January 1, 2024 to June 30, 2024
• retrospective conversion to OA for articles published in hybrid journals in NON-open access mode from January 1, 2023 to June 30, 2024

NB: the publisher has NOT yet provided operational guidelines on refund and/or restrospective conversion procedures, which will be published here as soon as they are available. 
Authors eligible for APC refund and/or retrospective conversion will be notified once the publisher provides the lists and they will be able to choose whether or not to proceed with the conversion of published articles to OA and with the refund of APCs already paid.

Agreement Validity

06/03/2024 - 31/12/2025

Who Can Publish

Corresponding authors formally affiliated with the university on the date of acceptance of articles are "eligible", provided they use the institutional email address (domains: @unipr.it and @studenti.unipr.it) for submission and declare as their first, or only, affiliation the University of Parma.

"Eligible" corresponding authors also include those on fixed-term contracts (contract professors, research fellows, PhD students, post-doctoral researchers, trainees, scholarship holders) who are formally affiliated with the university at the time of article acceptance (i.e., with an active contract). In this case as well, it is necessary to use the institutional email address and declare the University of Parma as the primary affiliation.

If the article has more than one corresponding author, such as one author from the University of Parma and one from another institution, the affiliation will be verified, and consequently the attribution of the article to the institution that signed the agreement, will be based on the author who submitted the article.

What To Publish

The agreement provides for the possibility of publishing:

- Research articles
- Review articles
- Rapid communications
- Brief reports
- Case reports

The definition of the publisher's article types: here

Where To Publish

You can publish in hybrid and gold open access journals

LIST OF JOURNALS

How Much Does It Cost

Article Processing Charges (APCs) are paid in full by the university.

How To Publish

Guides to the open access publication process:

• https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/authors/publishing-open-access
• https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-file-manager/file/62a341d2d8a97be747fbac28/0191-1200dpi-02.pdf

Licenses Allowed

The publication license allowed by the agreement is:

- CC BY 4.0 (possible exceptions for some journals): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode.it

For an explanation of Creative Commons licenses it may be helpful to consult the https://creativecommons.it/chapterIT/index.php/license-your-work/ page.

Agreement Validity

01/01/2023-31/12/2027

Who Can Publish

Corresponding authors formally affiliated with the university on the date of acceptance of articles are "eligible", provided they use the institutional email address (domains: @unipr.it and @studenti.unipr.it) for submission and declare as their first, or only, affiliation the University of Parma.

"Eligible" corresponding authors also include those on fixed-term contracts (contract professors, research fellows, PhD students, post-doctoral researchers, trainees, scholarship holders) who are formally affiliated with the university at the time of article acceptance (i.e., with an active contract). In this case as well, it is necessary to use the institutional email address and declare the University of Parma as the primary affiliation.

Elsevier stipulates that for an article there can be only one corresponding author. The agreement specifies that the name of the corresponding author cannot be changed after acceptance of the article, except in the case of clerical errors and with prior authorization from CRUI.

What To Publish

Articles accepted for publication within the term of the agreement and falling into one of the following article types are considered eligible:

a) Original Paper
b) Review Paper
c) Case Report
d) Short Communication

Where To Publish

You can publish in Hybrid Journals and Cell Press journals:

• LIST OF HYBRID AND CELL PRESS JOURNALS ELSEVIER

Here you will find the LIST OF NON-ELLIGIBLE JOURNALS

How Much Does It Cost

The APCs (Article Processing Charges) are paid in full by the University.

From 2025 the fund for publication in hybrid journals becomes unlimited.

How to publish

How to publish is detailed on the https://www.elsevier.com/open-access/agreements/crui page in the Process section.

The corresponding author must necessarily declare as their first, or only, affiliation the University of Parma and use the institutional email address (@unipr.it).

Licenses Allowed

The publication licenses allowed by the agreement are two:

• CC BY 4.0 set as the default license (info: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
• It is also possible to publish under the CC BY NC ND 4.0 license, which, however, requires the assignment of commercial rights to the publisher https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode.it

For an illustration in Italian of the Creative Commons licenses it may be useful to consult the page https://creativecommons.it/chapterIT/index.php/license-your-work/

Agreement Validity

01/01/2020-31/12/2024 Extendend until 31/12/2025

Who Can Publish

Corresponding authors formally affiliated with the university on the date of acceptance of articles are "eligible", provided they use the institutional email address (domains: @unipr.it and @studenti.unipr.it) for submission and declare as their first, or only, affiliation the University of Parma.

"Eligible" corresponding authors also include those on fixed-term contracts (contract professors, research fellows, PhD students, post-doctoral researchers, trainees, scholarship holders) who are formally affiliated with the university at the time of article acceptance (i.e., with an active contract). In this case as well, it is necessary to use the institutional email address and declare the University of Parma as the primary affiliation.

If the article has more than one corresponding author, such as one author from the University of Parma and one from another institution, the affiliation will be verified, and consequently the attribution of the article to the institution that signed the agreement, will be based on the author who submitted the article.

What To Publish

All peer-reviewed articles.

Where To Publish

The agreement provides for open access publishing in all of the publisher's hybrid and gold journals.

How Much Does It Cost

Article Processing Charges (APCs) are paid in full by the university. If funds are exhausted, this will be indicated here.

How To Publish

Information for authors on how to publish in open access in this PAGE on the publisher's website.

Licenses Allowed

The publication license allowed by the agreement is:

• CC BY 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode

For an explanation of Creative Commons licenses it may be helpful to consult the https://creativecommons.it/chapterIT/index.php/license-your-work/ page.

Agreement Validity

01/01/2022-31/12/2024

[Update on 31/01/2025]: CARE reported that negotiations with the publisher have broken down. As of January 2025, it is no longer possible to publish in OA with the coverage of the agreement, i.e., without paying APCs.

Who Can Publish

Corresponding authors formally affiliated with the university on the date of acceptance of articles are "eligible", provided they use the institutional email address (domains: @unipr.it and @studenti.unipr.it) for submission and declare as their first, or only, affiliation the University of Parma.

"Eligible" corresponding authors also include those on fixed-term contracts (contract professors, research fellows, PhD students, post-doctoral researchers, trainees, scholarship holders) who are formally affiliated with the university at the time of article acceptance (i.e., with an active contract). In this case as well, it is necessary to use the institutional email address and declare the University of Parma as the primary affiliation.

If the article has more than one corresponding author, such as one author from the University of Parma and one from another institution, the affiliation will be verified, and consequently the attribution of the article to the institution that signed the agreement, will be based on the author who submitted the article.

What To Publish

IEEE allows the following types of articles to be published:

• Regular Paper
• Review Paper
• Brief Paper
• Invited
• Survey

Where To Publish

You can publish in all hybrid and full open access journals published by IEEE.

List of journals

How Much Does It Cost

[Update on 31/01/2025]: CARE reported that negotiations with the publisher have broken down. As of January 2025, it is no longer possible to publish in OA with the coverage of the agreement, i.e., without paying APCs.

Article Processing Charges (APCs) are paid in full by the University. If funds are exhausted, this will be indicated here.

N.B. - Author charges, not included in this agreement, may be applied for excessive article length and the addition of color on the pages.

How To Publish

How to publish is indicated in the Author's Guide.

Licenses Allowed

The publishing license allowed by the agreement is:

• CC BY 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode

For an explanation of Creative Commons licenses it may be useful to consult the https://creativecommons.it/chapterIT/index.php/license-your-work/ page.

Agreement Validity

01/01/2022-31/12/2025

Who Can Publish

Corresponding authors formally affiliated with the university on the date of acceptance of articles are "eligible", provided they use the institutional email address (domains: @unipr.it and @studenti.unipr.it) for submission and declare as their first, or only, affiliation the University of Parma.

"Eligible" corresponding authors also include those on fixed-term contracts (contract professors, research fellows, PhD students, post-doctoral researchers, trainees, scholarship holders) who are formally affiliated with the university at the time of article acceptance (i.e., with an active contract). In this case as well, it is necessary to use the institutional email address and declare the University of Parma as the primary affiliation.

If the article has more than one corresponding author, such as one author from the University of Parma and one from another institution, the affiliation will be verified, and consequently the attribution of the article to the institution that signed the agreement, will be based on the author who submitted the article.

What To Publish

IOP allows you to publish the following types of articles:

• Paper
• Special issue paper
• Review
• Letter

Where To Publish

You can publish in hybrid and gold open access journals. The list of eligible journals can be viewed at the following PAGE on the publisher's website.

How Much Does It Cost

The APCs (Article Processing Charges) are paid in full by the University.

N.B. - Any additional costs for the publication of the article, including, but not limited to, so-called page charges, are borne by the corresponding author. 

How To Publish

The guide for the process of publishing in open access under transformative agreement is published at the following PAGE on the publisher's website.

Licenses Allowed

The allowed license is CC BY 4.0 : https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode

Exceptions to this requirement are permitted under the following circumstances:

• when the Corresponding Author does not accept CC BY 4.0 and opts for another version of the CC BY license;
• when a new partner journal is added to the included journals during the term of this agreement and the new journal uses another CC BY license.

For an explanation of Creative Commons licenses, it may be helpful to consult the https://creativecommons.it/chapterIT/index.php/license-your-work/ page.

Agreement Validity

01/01/2025 - 31/12/2027 

Who Can Publish

Corresponding authors formally affiliated with the university on the date of acceptance of articles are "eligible", provided they use the institutional email address (domains: @unipr.it and @studenti.unipr.it) for submission and declare as their first, or only, affiliation the University of Parma.

"Eligible" corresponding authors also include those on fixed-term contracts (contract professors, research fellows, PhD students, post-doctoral researchers, trainees, scholarship holders) who are formally affiliated with the university at the time of article acceptance (i.e., with an active contract). In this case as well, it is necessary to use the institutional email address and declare the University of Parma as the primary affiliation.

If the article has more than one corresponding author, such as one author from the University of Parma and one from another institution, the affiliation will be verified, and consequently the attribution of the article to the institution that signed the agreement, will be based on the author who submitted the article.

What To Publish

The agreement provides for the possibility of publishing:

• original paper (primary research articles)
• review paper (review articles)

The publisher declares that this list of article types includes the following categories of articles:
a) Original articles
b) Research articles
c) Systematic reviews
d) Meta-analyses
e) Narrative reviews
f) Literary reviews
g) Case reports
h) Case series
i) Short reports

Where To Publish

You can publish in hybrid journals: LIST OF HYBRID JOURNALS

How Much Does It Cost

The APCs (Article Processing Charges) are paid in full by the University. If funds are exhausted, this will be indicated here.

How To Publish

How to publish is indicated on the page https://tools.ovid.com/openaccess/crui/#instructions

Licenses Allowed

Publication licenses allowed by the contract are:

• CC BY 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode
• For hybrid journals that do not offer such a license or where the eligible author refuses it, articles are published using the Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, in the version in force on the date of signature of this agreement.

For an explanation of Creative Commons licenses, it may be helpful to consult the https://creativecommons.it/chapterIT/index.php/license-your-work/ page.

Agreement Validity

01/01/2020-31/12/2024 Extended until 30/06/2025

[CARE Update of 30/05/2025] The APCs covered by the agreement for Open Access until 30 June 2025 have been exhausted. 

Authors may consider choosing the Subscription option.
 

Who Can Publish

Corresponding authors formally affiliated with the university on the date of acceptance of articles are "eligible", provided they use the institutional email address (domains: @unipr.it and @studenti.unipr.it ) for submission and declare as their first, or only, affiliation the University of Parma.

"Eligible" corresponding authors also include those on fixed-term contracts (contract professors, research fellows, PhD students, post-doctoral researchers, trainees, scholarship holders) who are formally affiliated with the university at the time of article acceptance (i.e., with an active contract). In this case as well, it is necessary to use the institutional email address and declare the University of Parma as the primary affiliation.

If the article has more than one corresponding author, such as one author from the University of Parma and one from another institution, the affiliation will be verified, and consequently the attribution of the article to the institution that signed the agreement, will be based on the author who submitted the article.

What To Publish

The agreement provides for the possibility of publishing:

• original paper
• review paper

Where To Publish

You can publish in hybrid journals (also referred to as open choice in the Springer agreement).

From 2023, hybrid journals that become fully open access during the term of the agreement are also included.

Excluded from the agreement are "gold open access" journals (also called "fully open access" journals, such as those published in BioMed Central - BMC or SpringerOpen) and journals from the Nature group.

The list of eligible journals can be downloaded from the Springer website starting at this PAGE (download the Eligible journals file located under Publishing open access in a hybrid journal).

How Much Does It Cost

The APCs (Article Processing Charges) are fully paid by the University until funds are exhausted.

[CARE Update of 30/05/2025] The APCs covered by the agreement for Open Access until 30 June 2025 have been exhausted. 

Authors may consider choosing the Subscription option.

How To Publish

See SPRINGER NATURE OPEN ACCESS AGREEMENTS. A guide for authors on the publisher's website.

                                                                             Licenses Allowed

The publishing licenses allowed by the agreement are:

• CC BY 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode
• CC BY-NC 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode.it

For an explanation of Creative Commons licenses it may be useful to consult the https://creativecommons.it/chapterIT/index.php/license-your-work/ page.

Agreement validity

01/01/2024 - 31/12/2027

The agreement provides the opportunity for Authors from member Institutions to publish scholarly articles under Open Access license in all fully OA (= gold) and hybrid journals published by Wiley, at no cost to the authors.

Read on Wiley's website what the CARE CRUI agreement provides for UNIPR authors and find out how to proceed to publish in open access at no cost.

Who Can Publish

Corresponding authors formally affiliated with the university on the date of acceptance of articles are "eligible", provided they use the institutional email address (domains: @unipr.it and @studenti.unipr.it ) for submission and declare as their first, or only, affiliation the University of Parma.

"Eligible" corresponding authors also include those on fixed-term contracts (contract professors, research fellows, PhD students, post-doctoral researchers, trainees, scholarship holders) who are formally affiliated with the university at the time of article acceptance (i.e., with an active contract). In this case as well, it is necessary to use the institutional email address and declare the University of Parma as the primary affiliation.

The agreement provides that for an article there can be only one corresponding author and that the name of the corresponding author cannot be modified after acceptance of the article, except in the case of material errors and with prior authorization from CRUI.

What To Publish

The agreement provides for the possibility of publication:

• Case study
• Commentary
• Data article
• Education
• Lecture
• Method and protocol
• Perspective
• Practice and policy
• Rapid publication
• Research article
• Review article
• Short communication
• Technical note

Where To Publish

The agreement contemplates publication in all gold OA and hybrid journals of the publisher Wiley at no cost to the authors. Hindawi journals are excluded from the agreement.

Download the updated list of hybrid journals from the Wiley website

Download the updated list of gold OA journals from the Wiley website

How Much Does It Cost

Article Processing Charges (APCs) are paid in full by the University until the national fund administered by CRUI is exhausted.

Any notices of approaching fund depletion as well as the news of depletion will be posted on this page in real time.

How To Publish

Follow the indications on Wiley's website to publish for free in the journals fully OA under the agreement.

Follow the indications on Wiley's website to publish for free in open access on the hybrid journals under the agreement.

Licenses Allowed

From 2025 only the CC BY license option is presented to authors; should they wish to publish under other licenses they will need to contact the Wiley support team via the Submission Dashboard.

From 2026 only the CC-BY option will be available. Authors wishing to publish articles under other licenses will be able to proceed outside of the agreement and bear the costs of publication themselves with funds other than contractual funds.

For information on the CC BY 4.0 license see https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode

For an illustration in Italian of Creative Commons licenses it may be useful to consult the https://creativecommons.it/chapterIT/index.php/license-your-work/

                              RETROSPECTIVE CONVERSION AND REFUND FOR AUTHORS 

Since the agreement is valid from January 1, 2024, and the stipulation was later, there are:

1. refund of amounts already paid for APCs for articles published in open access mode in hybrid and gold open access journals from Jan. 1 to July 9, 2024
2. retrospective conversion for articles published in Wiley hybrid journals in NON-open access mode from Jan. 1 to July 9, 2024

[Update 07-11-2024] CRUI has provided us with lists of corresponding authors who may request conversion to OA of articles already published in subscription mode or refund of APCs paid for articles published in open access.

All authors listed by Wiley and CRUI have been contacted by the office that follows up on transformative agreements.

NB: In case a corresponding author has not been contacted and believes he or she falls under one of the two cases (points 1 and 2), please contact us by writing to bibliot@unipr.it