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Subscription with online access to the Standard collection and the option for affiliated authors UNIMI to publish scientific articles under Open Access licenses in hybrid journals with CC BY-NC and CC BY 4.0 licenses: see attached document.
The articles eligible in the contract for Open Access publication are listed in the attached document.

Green Open Access

Authors are allowed to publish, perpetually, on their personal website or the institution's open access repository, the version of their articles that has been published by BMJ in the Subscribed Products (reflecting the changes made during the peer review process), and make it available in open access, also for the purpose of complying with obligations arising from research contracts, regulations from their own institution, and according to the constraints provided by national and European legal provisions, provided they include a link to the published version of their article on the BMJ platform and the following text: "This article has been accepted for publication in [Journal, volume, issue] following peer review and the version of record can be accessed online at [insert full DOI]".

OA publications management

Corresponding authors can choose to publish their work in open access at the time of editorial acceptance using their institutional address, to be identified as an affiliated author of the University on the Rights platform of the Copyright Clearance Center made available by the publisher. The contract allows OA publication with the retention of copyright by the author. Please find the Author Guide attached.

Please note that the process of retrospective conversion to open access for articles published between January 1, 2023, and June 30, 2024, by corresponding authors affiliated with the University will begin shortly.

BMJ Case Reports

BMJ Case Reports offers access to clinical case reports and the option to submit new cases.
Access: Articles may be consulted at https://casereports.bmj.com/ without requiring login credentials.
Submission: A Fellow Code is required for submission, which can be requested from the University’s Author Services.
Publication of case reports does not include Open Access publication costs.
An author guide is attached.