NOTE! The agreement expires on December 31, 2024. Since January 2025 it will no longer be possible to publish in OA under the agreement.

 

The University of Bologna has joined the national CARE-CRUI agreement signed with IEEE. This transformative agreement covers both the subscription fees for accessing the resources included in the IEL -IEEE Electronic Library database (journals, conference proceedings, standards) and the fees for publishing Open Access in the hybrid and full Open Access journals included in the same collections. Therefore, authors can publish open access at no additional costs.

 

SUMMARY SHEET FOR PUBLICATION

 

Agreement duration: 2022-2024. Activated in August 2022. 

Open Access publishing obligation: No. In case an article has already been published with restricted access, authors can convert it to Open Access within 90 days of the publishing date.

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 (see the dedicated FAQ).

Types of eligible articles: Original Research, Regular Paper, Review Paper, Brief, Invited, Survey.

Available fund: unlimited fund.

Licence: see the specific 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 freely accessible.

 

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 and full Open Access journals available on IEEE Xplore.

Here is the list of the eligible journals in 2024.

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-ND 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.

In case an article has already been published with restricted access, authors can convert it to Open Access an within 90 days of the publishing date.

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 agreement?