The agreement expired on December 2023. A new agreement is under negotiation: waiting for the renewal, it is now possible to publish Open Access with the coverage of the new agreement.

The new agreement will be transformative and will cover both the subscription fees for accessing the All Publications collection and the fees for publishing Open Access in the hybrid and full OA journals included in the same collection. Therefore, authors can publish Open Access at no additional costs.

 

SUMMARY SHEET FOR PUBLICATION

Requirements for covering publishing costs: elegibility of the corresponding author (see the dedicated FAQ), journal and article type.

List of the eligible journals: 2025 list (see the dedicated FAQ).

Licence: CC BY.

 

FURTHER INFORMATION

Which authors may be eligible?

Only corresponding authors already affiliated with the University of Bologna on the date the article is accepted are eligible, including academics with fixed-term contracts such as PhD students, research fellows, fixed-term assistant professors, specialisation school students, etc.

In such cases, authors must submit their contributions via their institutional email address (i.e.: name.surname@unibo.it or name.surname@studio.unibo.it).

If the article has more than one corresponding author, only the primary author (the one who keeps directly in contact with the publisher and takes care of the whole submission and publishing process) is deemed eligible to publish Open Access.

Which are the eligible journals?

Authors can publish in hybrid and full OA journals included in the All Publications collection, available on the ACS Publications website.

Here is the 2025 list.

Under which kind of licence will articles be published?

A CC BY licence.

Authors retain all rights relating to their articles, which may be deposited in the University of Bologna institutional repository (IRIS) and published on the authors’ personal websites. Open access is granted right after the publication without any embargo period.

When will the article be published Open Access?

The article will be published once the University of Bologna has verified the author’s affiliation with the University and has given its approval.

Which costs are excluded from the coverage of the agreement?

Any other publication fees (i.e.: submission fees, color pages, overlength pages fees etc.) are not covered by the agreement.

Where can I find more information about the agreement?