The University of Bologna has joined the national CARE-CRUI agreement signed with the Royal Society of Chemistry. The transformative agreement covers both the subscription fees for accessing the RSC Gold Collection subscribed by the University of Bologna and the fees for publishing Open Access in the hybrid journals included in the same collection, as well as in all hybrid journals that will be converted to Open Access during the term of the agreement. Therefore, authors can publish Open Access at no additional costs.

 

SUMMARY SHEET FOR PUBLICATION

Agreement duration: 2025. 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: 2025 list [.xlsx 20 KB] (see the dedicated FAQ). 

Types of eligible articles: Analysis, Application, Chemistry Frontiers, Communication, Concise Article, Critical Review, Edge Article, Emerging Area, Feature Article, Focus, Forum, Frontier, Highlight, Letter, Method, Mini-review, New Product Update, Opinion, Paper, Perspective, Research Article, Review Article, Synopsis, Technical Innovation, Technical Note, Tutorial Account, Tutorial Review, Viewpoint.

Available fund: annual limited national 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 articles in the institutional repository or publish it on their personal websites. The publication will be accessible as Open Access after a 12-month embargo period from the acceptance date.

 

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.

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 the RSC Gold Collection subscribed by the University of Bologna, as well as in all hybrid journals that will be converted to full Open Access during the term of the contract, accessible on the RSC Publishing platform.

Journals that were already full Open Access when the agreement was signed are not included; in this case, the publication fees are charged to the authors.

Here is a list [.xlsx 20 KB] of the eligible journals in 2025.

What happens if the annual national fund is exhausted?

The agreement covers the publishing costs up to the annual national fund available to all institutions that have signed the agreement.

Once the national fund is exhausted, the costs for publishing new articles will be charged to the authors.

Under which kind of licence will articles be published?

The standard licence is CC BY . The author may, however, opt for a CC BY-NC 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?

After the author has expressed his willingness to publish Open Access and completed the post-acceptance publication workflow. The Univerisity will check the validity of the affiliation at a later time.

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?