The University of Bologna has joined the national CARE-CRUI agreement with Springer. The transformative agreement covers both the subscription fees for accessing the Springer, Adis and Palgrave collection subscribed by the University of Bologna and the fees for publishing in Open Access in the hybrid journals included in the same collections.
The agreement does not cover the costs for publishing Open Access in the journals of Nature and BioMed Central.
Depositing in the Institutional Repository (Green Open Access)
For any article published in hybrid journals whose costs are not covered by the agreement, authors can deposit the Author’s Accepted Manuscript (AAM) (post-print) version of their article and make it available as Open Access:
- on the author's personal website, right after the acceptance
- in the institutional repository and in the funder's respository, after a 12-month embargo period.
In the registered version, together with a link to the published version on the publisher’s website, this acknowledgement should be included: “This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of an article published in [insert journal title]. The final authenticated version is available online at: http://dx.doi.org/[insert DOI]”.
How long does the agreement last?
The agreement lasts from January 1, 2020 to December 31, 2024.