The University of Bologna has signed a transformative agreement with the publisher American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). This agreement covers both fees for accessing the complete ASME Digital Collection and fees for publishing in Open Access in all hybrid journals and in the full OA journal ASME Open Journal of Engineering, at no additional costs to the authors.

  

SUMMARY SHEET FOR PUBLICATION

Agreement duration: 2025. Effective from April 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: all.
Available fund: unlimited fund.

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.

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?

All hybrid journals included in the ASME Digital Collection subscribed by the University, as well as the full OA journal ASME Open Journal of Engineering, accessible on the ASME Journals platform.

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

Under which kind of licence will articles be published?

The standard licence is CC BY. 

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?