The University has joined the national CARE-CRUI agreement signed with Wolters Kluwer for the Lippincott Williams & Wilkins journals. The transformative agreement covers both the subscription fees for accessing the journals included in the Total Access Journal Collection and the fees for publishing Open Access in the hybrid journals included in the same collection, as well as in hybrid journals that will be converted to Open Access. Therefore, authors can publish Open Access at no additional costs.

 

SUMMARY SHEET FOR PUBLICATION

Agreement duration: 2025-2027. Activated in January 2025. 

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

List of the eligible journals: list [.xlsx 15 KB] (see the specific FAQ).

Types of eligible articles: Original Papers e Review Papers (which include: Original articles, Reseach articles, Systematic Reviews, Meta Analyses, Narrative Reviews, Literature Reviews, Case Reports, Case Series, Brief Reports).

Available fund: unlimited fund.

Licence: see the dedicated FAQ.

Self-archiving mode (Green Open Access): authors can deposit the Author’s Accepted Manuscript (AAM) (post-print) version of their article in the institutional repository or publish it on their personal websites and make it available as Open Access.

 

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).

Which are the eligible journals?

Authors can publish in the hybrid journals included in theTotal Access Journal Collection and accessible on the Ovid platform.

The transformative agreement doesn’t cover the costs of publishing in full Open Access journals, which therefore are charged to the authors.

Here is a list [.xlsx 15 KB] of the eligible journals in 2025.

Under which kind of licence will articles be published?

The standard licence is CC BY, except for some journals which publish their articles under a CC BY-NC-ND licence.

Authors retain all rights relating to their articles, that can 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?

  • For further information, please contact the  of the University of Bologna.