The University of Bologna has joined the national CARE-CRUI agreement signed with Wiley. The transformative agreement covers both the subscription fees for accessing the Database collection subscribed by the University of Bologna and the fees for publishing Open Access in all the hybrid and full Open Access journals available on Wiley Online Library platform.

The agreement does not cover the costs for publishing Open Access in Hindawi journals.

 

SUMMARY SHEET FOR PUBLICATION

Agreement duration: 2024-2027. Activated in July 2024. 

Open Access publishing obligation: No.

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

List of the eligible journals: 2024 list [.xlsx 185 KB] (see the dedicated FAQ).

Types of eligible articles: see the dedicated FAQ.

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 and/or publish it on their personal websites. The publication will be freely accessible a 12-month embargo period.

 

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).

According to the agreement, each article can have only one corresponding author, who cannot be modified after acceptance of the article by the publisher.

Which are the eligible journals?

All the hybrid and full Open Access journals available on Wiley Online Library platform.

Here is the list [.xlsx 185 KB] of the eligible journals in 2024.

The agreement does not cover the costs for publishing Open Access in Hindawi journals: the publisher plans to quickly suppress the Hindawi brand and make this journals available, under the Wiley brand, on the Wiley Online Library platform.
As the ex-Hindawi journals enter the Wiley Online Library platform, they will be integrated into the contract and the articles published in these journals will become eligible for Open Access publication with the coverage of the contract itself, following the same workflow as the other full Open Access journals.

Which are the eligible types of article?

The types of articles covered by the agreement are:

  • Abstract
  • Announcement
  • Article Note
  • B2B
  • Brief Communication
  • Career and Management
  • Case Study
  • Commentary
  • Concern
  • Correspondence
  • Cover
  • Custom Content
  • Data Article
  • Editorial
  • Education
  • Erratum
  • Events
  • Index
  • Introduction
  • Issue Information
  • Lecture
  • Media Review
  • Meeting Report
  • Method and Protocol
  • News
  • Obituary
  • Off-Line Licenses
  • Opinion
  • Perspective
  • Practice and Policy
  • Profile
  • Rapid Publication
  • Research Article
  • Retraction
  • Review Article
  • Short Communication
  • Technical Note
  • Withdrawal

What happens if the annual national fund is exhausted?

The agreement covers the Open Access publication of a limited number of articles.

In case the annual fund is exhausted, the publisher inhibits on its platform the possibility of requesting the coverage of the Open Access publishing costs through the contract, no longer showing the University of Bologna in the list of institutions that have an agreement of this type.

  • For articles in hybrid journals, authors can publish their articles under restricted access (without paying any fee) or in Open Access (bearing their own costs).
  • For articles in full OA journals, instead, to proceed it is necessary to pay the fees for publishing in Open Access.

At the beginning of the following year, the new annual coverage will be activated and authors will be able to publish again in Open Access, benefitting from the agreement cost coverage; the new annual fund, however, can be used only for the articles accepted in the year to which the fund refers: articles accepted during the previous year can't be published in Open Access with the new coverage.

Under which kind of licence will articles be published?

The standard licence is CC BY. However:

  • in 2024 the author will also be able to opt for the CC BY-NC-ND licence;
  • in 2025, to publish under a licence other than CC BY, authors will have to contact the Wiley support team via the submission "dashboard";
  • from 2026 only the CC BY option will be available. Authors who wish to publish articles under other licences can proceed outside the contract and independently cover the publication costs with funds other than the contractual ones.

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?