Facilitations for Authors
Thanks to specific agreements stipulated with publishers, Unipd authors who wish to publish their work in Open Access can take advantage of facilitations on the payment of APCs (Article Processing Charges).
Transformative agreements
According to the new type of agreement defined as "transformative", only authors belonging to the institutions adhering to the specific transformation contract can publish without additional costs.
Each article managed under the agreement is defined as an "OA publishing token" or "voucher". In some Read & Publish agreements, OA vouchers for the free publication of Open Access articles, although available in large numbers, are limited at the national level and they are expected to run out before the end of the calendar year.
Requirements for accessing the facilitations provided for by the Transformative Agreements
The corresponding author must formally belong to the University. Upon submitting the article to the journal, the corresponding author must indicate affiliation with the University of Padua. Furthermore, the use of the institutional e-mail @unipd.it is preferable.
The University of Padua Read & Publish agreements are available with the following publishers:
Characteristics of the contract
- Italian consortium contract (CARE - CRUI)
- Extent: 2020 - 2023
- Open access publications in hybrid journals (i.e. journals that may contain both open access and closed access articles) of the publisher, without the need for any payment of OA article publishing charges
- The contract covers only open access fees; other expenses (colour pages, extra length, etc.) are not included.
- Publication license suggested: CC BY (Copyright remains with the author)
Essential conditions to take advantage of the discount
Affiliation of the corresponding author identifiable by the publisher through institutional email or name of the institution
Instructions for authors on the publisher's website.
Characteristics of the contract
- Italian consortium contract (CARE - CRUI)
- Extent: 2022
- Contract model Subscribe to Open (S2O)
The publications involved in the S2O initiative are the following:
- Annual Review of Biomedical Engineering
- Annual Review of Cancer Biology
- Annual Review of Environment and Resources
- Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics
- Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science
- Annual Review of Political Science
- Annual Review of Public Health
- Annual Review of Virology
Characteristics of the contract
- Italian consortium contract (CARE - CRUI)
- Extent: 2020 - 2025
- Unlimited Read and Publish agreement includes open access publications in all the journals of the publisher, both Hybrid (i.e. journals that may contain both open access and closed access articles) and Gold (full Open Access), without the need for any payment of OA article publishing charges
- The contract covers only open access fees; other expenses (colour pages, extra length, etc.) are not included.
- Publication license suggested: CC BY (Copyright remains with the author)
Essential conditions to take advantage of the discount
Affiliation of the corresponding author identifiable by the publisher through institutional email or name of the institution
Type of documents for which the concession provided by the contract is applicable.
2023- Read & Publish subscription is under renewal. Articles currently accepted in 2023 will be able to be published in OA at no cost for authors thanks to the new contract under development.
Characteristics of the contract
- Italian consortium contract (CARE - CRUI)
- Extent: 2020 - 2022
- Open access publications in hybrid journals (i.e. journals that may contain both open access and closed access articles) of the publisher, except those published by scientific societies or associated publishers, without the need for any payment of OA article publishing charges
- The contract covers only open access fees; other expenses (colour pages, extra length, etc.) are not included.
- Publication license suggested: CC BY (Copyright remains with the author)
Essential conditions to take advantage of the discount
affiliation of the corresponding author identifiable by the publisher through institutional email or name of the institution
Further benefits
There is also a 20% discount on the price list of Article Processing Charges (APCs) for fully open access journals.
Characteristics of the contract
- Italian consortium contract (CARE - CRUI)
- Extent: 2020 - 2024
- Open access publications in both Hybrid (i.e. journals that may contain both open access and closed access articles) and Gold OA (full Open Access) journals of the publisher, without the need for any payment of OA article publishing charges
- The contract covers only open access fees; other expenses (colour pages, extra length, etc.) are not included.
- Publication license suggested: CC BY (Copyright remains with the author)
Essential conditions to take advantage of the discount
Affiliation of the corresponding author identifiable by the publisher through institutional email or name of the institution
Characteristics of the contract
- Italian consortium contract (CARE - CRUI)
- Extent: 01/08/2022 - 31/07/2024
- Unlimited Read and Publish agreement includes open access publications in both Hybrid (i.e. journals that may contain both open access and closed access articles) and Gold OA (full Open Access) journals of the publisher, without the need for any payment of OA article publishing charges
- Retrospective OA conversion is available until 90 days from the date of the first online publication by IEEE
- The contract covers only open access fees; other expenses (colour pages, extra length, etc.) are not included.
- Publication license suggested: CC BY (Copyright remains with the author)
Essential conditions to take advantage of the discount
Affiliation of the corresponding author identifiable by the publisher through institutional email or name of the institution
Instructions for authors on the publisher's website.
Characteristics of the contract
- Italian consortium contract (CARE - CRUI)
- Extent: 01/01/2023 - 31/12/2025
- Unlimited Read and Publish agreement includes publishing in all hybrid and fully OA titles including open access publications in both Hybrid (i.e. journals that may contain both open access and closed access articles) and Gold OA (full Open Access) journals of the publisher, without the need for any payment of OA article publishing charges
- Some IOP partners' Journals are not included in the Read & Publish Subscription
- The contract covers only open access fees; other expenses (colour pages, extra length, etc.) are not included.
- Publication license suggested: CC BY (Copyright remains with the author)
Essential conditions to take advantage of the discount
Affiliation of the corresponding author identifiable by the publisher through institutional email or name of the institution
Characteristics of the contract
- Italian consortium contract (CARE - CRUI)
- Extent: 2020 - 2023
- Open access publications in hybrid journals (i.e. journals that may contain both open access and closed access articles) of the publisher, without the need for any payment of OA article publishing charges
- The type of documents for which the concession provided by the contract is applicable are: Original Paper, Review paper
- The contract covers only open access fees; other expenses (colour pages, extra length, etc.) are not included.
- Publication license suggested: CC BY (Copyright remains with the author)
Essential conditions to take advantage of the discount
Affiliation of the corresponding author identifiable by the publisher through institutional email or name of the institution
Instructions for authors on the publisher's website.
Characteristics of the contract
- Italian consortium contract (CARE - CRUI)
- Extent: 2022 - 2024
- Open access publications in hybrid journals (i.e. journals that may contain both open access and closed access articles), without the need for any payment of OA article publishing charges
- The contract covers only open access fees; other expenses (colour pages, extra length, etc.) are not included.
- Publication license suggested: CC BY (Copyright remains with the author)
Essential conditions to take advantage of the discount
Affiliation of the corresponding author identifiable by the publisher through institutional email or name of the institution
Characteristics of the contract:
- Italian consortium contract (CARE - CRUI)
- Extent: 2020 - 2024
- Open access publications in hybrid journals (i.e. journals that may contain both open access and closed access articles) of the Springer publishing group (comprised in the SpringerLink platform), without the need for any payment of OA article publishing charges
- The contract covers only open access fees; other expenses (colour pages, extra length, etc.) are not included.
- Publication license suggested: CC BY (Copyright remains with the author)
Essential conditions to take advantage of the discount
Affiliation of the corresponding author identifiable by the publisher through institutional email and/or IP address and/or name of the institution
Instructions for authors on the publisher's website.
Characteristics of the contract:
- Italian consortium contract (CARE - CRUI)
- Extent: 03/2021 - 2023
- Open access publications in hybrid journals (i.e. journals that may contain both open access and closed access articles) of the Wiley publishing group contained in the Wiley Online Library platform and publications in journals converted in 2022 into Gold OA, without the need for any payment of OA article publishing charges
- The contract covers only open access fees; other expenses (colour pages, extra length, etc.) are not included.
- Publication license suggested: CC BY (Copyright remains with the author)
Essential conditions to take advantage of the discount:
affiliation of the corresponding author identifiable by the publisher through institutional email or name of the institution
Publishers who provide other kinds of facilitation
2023- subscription is under renewal. Currently APCs discount is not available.
Characteristics of the contract
- Italian consortium contract (CARE - CRUI)
- Deadline: December 31, 2022
- Access to: the historical journal The BMJ Online, the BMJ Online Collection, and the BMJ Case Report database from the BMJ Publishing Group
- 25% discount on APCs, both in Gold and hybrid journals (i.e. journals that can contain both open access and closed access articles)
2023- subscription is under renewal. Currently APCs discount is not available.
Characteristics of the contract
- Italian consortium contract (CARE - CRUI)
- Extent: 2018 - 2022
- Year 2022: 10% discount
List of journals (updated November 2021)
Agreement between CRUI CARE and Elsevier webpages.
Information on how to publish in Green & Gold Open Access on Elsevier journals.
SCOAP3 (Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics) is a financing model for publication costs in Particle Physics journals. It is an international project, coordinated by CERN in Geneva since 2014, aimed at supporting the costs of Open Access publication.
The University of Padua adheres to the SCOAP3 project, therefore UniPd authors do not sustain any expenses to publish in OA in the following journals:
- Acta Physica Polonica B (APPB). Ed. Jagiellonian University in cooperation with the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Advances in High Energy Physics (AHEP). Ed. Indawi
- Chinese Physics C (CPC). Ed. IOP
- The European Physical Journal C (EPJC). Ed. Springer
- The Journal of High Energy Physics (JHEP). Ed. Springer
- Nuclear Physics B (NPB). Ed. Elsevier
- Physics Letters B (PLB). Ed. Elsevier
- Physical Review C (PRC). Ed.APS Physics - Since 2018
- Physical Review D (PRD). Ed.APS Physics - Since 2018
- Physical Review Letters (PRL). Ed.APS Physics - Since 2018
- Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics (PTEP). Ed.Oxford University Press in cooperation with JPS The Physical Society of Japan
Publication license: CC BY and the authors maintain the copyright on the work.
The University Library Centre (ULC) has signed up for a membership that allows UniPd authors who publish Open Access with Taylor & Francis to enjoy a 10% discount on the cost of Article Processing Charges (APC).
Upon acceptance of the article by the publisher, the corresponding authors are informed of this possibility and how to access it.
The facilities include open access publications in Gold OA and hybrid journals (i.e. journals that can contain both open access and closed access articles). For the latter, the 10% discount refers to the cost of the APCs, not to the costs of traditional publishing.
Library Helpline
If you need any further information, please contact the Library Helpline. Select:
- "Supporto alla pubblicazione accademica"
- "Consulenza tematiche diritto d’autore"
- "Supporto Open Science (Open Access, Open Data)"