As a result of library subscriptions and other deals mainly supported by the national consortium CRUI-CARE, corresponding authors (tenured teaching, research and administrative staff, PhD students) affiliated to the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano may publish open access in hybrid or fully open access (gold) journals. Costs for Article Processing Charges (APCs) are already covered by the subscription.
In the case of costs covered by national subscriptions where the number of annual articles is exhausted, authors will be notified by the publisher and can then choose whether or not to publish in open access and if so choose another kind of funding: the unibz open access publishing fund or other tools.
Here’s the list of the available agreements:
Where: Journal List
What: Research articles, Review articles, Conference or proceedings papers, Short Papers, Technical Notes / Notes, Tutorials, Case Studies, Interviews, Surveys
How: Corresponding authors have to opt for open access publishing and declare the current unibz / eurac affiliation on the publisher’s dedicated platform using the institutional email address (@unibz.it or @eurac.edu).
Costs are covered by the subscription.
Authors don’t need to fill in the unibz open access publishing fund request form to use this deal.
License: CC-BY 4.0 (default and recommended) by choosing "Institutionally Paid Open Access rights", otherwise, by choosing “Exclusive License to Publish”, all individual co-authors of the published article retain the copyright to their article but provide ACM with an exclusive license to publish their article.
Green Open Access (Self-archiving of closed access articles): authors can self-archive the author's accepted manuscript version without embargo for publication on their website or in BORIS/BIA.
An Author’s Accepted Manuscript (AAM i.e. post‐print) is the version accepted for publication in a journal following peer review but prior to copyediting and typesetting.
Where: All Publications (except ACS Omega)
How: Corresponding authors have to opt for open access publishing and declare the current unibz affiliation on the publisher’s dedicated platform.
Costs are covered by the subscription until articles limit is reached at national level.
Authors don’t need to fill in the unibz open access publishing fund request form to use this deal.
Where: List of journals (Hybrid and Gold OA Journals*)
What: Original papers, Review papers, Case Reports. Short Communications starting in 2025.
How: Corresponding authors have to opt for open access publishing and declare the current unibz affiliation on publisher’s platform.
Procedure for Hybrid or Flips - Gold Open Access Eligible in Core Hybrid (please check the category in the Excel file above)
Costs are covered by the subscription (excluding additional services, such as overlength page or color charges, covers) until articles limit is reached at national level for 2024. An unlimited number of articles in eligible hybrid journals is planned for the period 2025-2027.
Authors don’t need to fill in the unibz open access publishing fund request form to use this deal.
License: CC-BY 4.0 [recommended) or CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 (not recommended because the publisher retains the rights for commercial purposes).
Green Open Access (Self-archiving of closed access articles): after acceptance of the publication, authors can self-archive the author's accepted manuscript (AAM) version on their personal website and in BORIS/BIA with an embargo period of 12 months, even for the journals with longer than 12 months embargo.
An Author’s Accepted Manuscript (AAM i.e. post‐print) is the version accepted for publication in a journal following peer review but prior to copyediting and typesetting.
Procedure for Gold Open Access Titles (please check the category in the Excel file above)
*The dedicated fund for publication in fully open access journals in 2024 is exhausted.
Under the terms of the current agreement, affiliated corresponding authors are entitled to a 15% discount on the fee for publication in gold (i.e. fully open access) journals.
For the funding of publication in these journals, authors must rely on the usual funding sources according to their role, the unibz OA fund or other funds.
Publication agreement in fully gold open access journals for the period 2025-2027 will be negotiated later.
Where: All Journals
How: Corresponding authors have to opt for open access publishing and declare the current unibz affiliation on the publisher’s dedicated platform.
Costs are covered by the subscription until articles limit is reached at national level.
Authors don’t need to fill in the unibz open access publishing fund request form to use this deal.
License: CC-BY 4.0
Green Open Access (Self-archiving of closed access articles): authors may, from the date of publication without embargo, deposit the author's accepted manuscript (AAM) version on the following conditions:
for non-commercial scholarly purposes only;
under the Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial International Licence 4.0 (CC BY-NC 4.0) (available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ );
deposits are limited to the author's personal website, BORIS/BIA; subject repositories; and Social Collaboration Networks (SCNs) that have signed up to the Voluntary STM Sharing Principles (available at https://www.stm-assoc.org/stm-consultations/scn-consultation-2015/).
An Author’s Accepted Manuscript (AAM i.e. post‐print) is the version accepted for publication in a journal following peer review but prior to copyediting and typesetting.
Where: List of journals
How: Corresponding authors have to opt for open access publishing and declare the current unibz affiliation on the publisher’s dedicated platform.
Costs are covered by the subscription, excluding overlength page charges and color charges. Agreement is effective as of 1st August 2022.
Authors don’t need to fill in the unibz open access publishing fund request form to use this deal.
License: CC-BY 4.0
Green Open Access (Self-archiving of closed access articles): authors can self-archive the author's accepted manuscript (AAM) version for publication on their website or in BORIS/BIA.
An Author’s Accepted Manuscript (AAM i.e. post‐print) is the version accepted for publication in a journal following peer review but prior to copyediting and typesetting.
Where: List of journals
What: Original paper and Reviews.
How: authors have to opt for open access publishing and declare the current unibz affiliation on publisher’s platform.
Costs are covered by the subscription until articles limit is reached at national level. For more information click here.
Authors don’t need to fill in the unibz open access publishing fund request form to use this deal.
License: CC-BY or CC-BY-NC
Green Open Access (Self-archiving of closed access articles): upon acceptance of the publication, authors can self-archive the author’s accepted manuscript (AAM) version on their personal website and in BORIS/BIA with an embargo period of 12 months, with the following mention: “Version following the peer review process, pending the review of the article as published in [enter journal title]. The authenticated final version is available online at: http://dx.doi.org/[enter DOI]”.
An Author’s Accepted Manuscript (AAM i.e. post‐print) is the version accepted for publication in a journal following peer review but prior to copyediting and typesetting.
Where: List of Journals
How: Corresponding authors have to opt for open access publishing and declare the current unibz affiliation on publisher’s platform.
Costs are covered by the subscription (excluding additional services, such as overlength page or color charges, covers) until articles limit is reached at national level. For more information click here.
Authors don’t need to fill in the unibz open access publishing fund request form to use this deal.
Green Open Access (Self-archiving of closed access articles): authors can self-archive the author’s accepted manuscript (AAM) version for publication on their website or in BIA/BORIS with an embargo period of 12 months for the STM area and 24 months for the HSS area.
An Author’s Accepted Manuscript (AAM i.e. post‐print) is the version accepted for publication in a journal following peer review but prior to copyediting and typesetting.