Transformative Agreement, subscribed through CARE-CRUI (2023-2027)

Contents

Freedom Collection and OA option
Access to the Freedom Collection journals and option of OA publishing for University corresponding authors in hybrid journals available on Sciencedirect platform. Number of OA vouchers will be unlimited starting 1 January 2025.

Eligible articles:

a) Original Paper
b) Review Paper
c) Case Report

Starting 1 January 2025, voucher will be unlimited and also Short Communication will be eligible

Articles will be published under a Creative Commons CC-BY license, or a CC-BY-NC license. Under this publishing model corresponding author maintains copyright.

During the term of the contract, titles which may change from hybrid to GOLD OA remain eligible.

Cell Press collection
Access to the subscribed ejournals and option of OA publishing for University corresponding authors in the same hybrid journals available on Sciencedirect platform under license CC-BY e CC-BY-ND.

Gold Open Access Fund

The national fund 2024 for the full coverage of APCs for Elsevier’s GOLD OA journals has been exhausted. 
However, a 15% discount on the list price of the APC is available for all corresponding authors affiliated through UNIMI on the publisher's GOLD OPEN ACCESS journals.

The discounted cost is eligible with the request for central UNIMI Fund for articles published in GOLD OPEN ACCESS journals. Please double-check rules and conditions

Green Open Access

After acceptance of the publication, authors can self-archive their articles on their personal website and into AIR with an embargo period of 12 months, even for the journals with longer than 12 months embargo
These guidelines do not apply to articles published in Open Choice Journals with an Open Access license. They are immediately available Open Access.

OA publications management

After peer-review process and publishing acceptance of the article, corresponding author will be intitled to select the University as his/her institution of affiliation before taking the Open Access option. Finally affiliation will be validated by the Appoval Manager of the Digital Library Office.

Please check the journals' editorial policy for any additional costs foreseen for services that are not included in the cost of the open access APC (e.g. submission fees, color images and/or extra pages). These costs are not included in the contract as they are due regardless of the articles' publishing version, be it OA or closed.

Some journals require a submission fee that is not covered by the contract. Regarding this, on the publisher's website (under the heading Submission fees. Elsevier), it is stated as follow:

''Along with many other journals in the wider community, around 45 of the economics, finance, and accounting journals published by Elsevier levy submission fees. If a journal charges submission fees, this is clearly flagged in the journal's guide for authors and during the submission process.
We encourage authors to pay attention during the submission process.''

Author guide to publishing under the agreement

As soon as further details will be available from CARE, information will be sent to the authors by the Authors Services APC.bibliotecadigitale@unimi.it