The University has joined the transformative agreement signed between CRUI-CARE and ACM (Association for Computing Machinery), valid for the period 2024-2025, for access to electronic journals and for open access publishing at no cost to the authors.

Below are the main points of the agreement:

• The publication workflow is entirely managed by the publisher
• The corresponding author must: be affiliated with the University of Palermo; indicate UniPa as the primary affiliation; and must use the institutional email @unipa.it
• The possibility to publish open access applies to an unlimited number of articles
• The list of titles eligible for open access publication is available at the link: https://libraries.acm.org/subscriptions-access/publications-eligible-for-oa

 The following types of articles can be published open access:

1. Research articles
2. Review articles
3. Conference or proceedings papers
4. Short Papers
5. Technical Note / Note
6. Tutorial
7. Case Study
8. Interview
9. Survey

The articles will be published under the Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 license.
For further details, you can write to: pubblicazione_openaccess@unipa.it

 The University has joined the transformative contract signed between CRUI-CARE and Elsevier (Science Direct) for the period 2023-2027, for access to electronic journals and open-access publications free of charge to the authors. The main points of the agreement are the following

The University has joined the transformative agreement signed between CRUI-CARE and IEEE for the period 2022-2024, for access to electronic journals and open-access publications free of charge to the authors in all the publisher’s “hybrid” and ‘gold open access’ journals (list of journals). The main points of the agreement are the following:

● Authors affiliated to the University of Palermo can publish their research products in open access without additional costs for them, with a Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 license.

● In orderto take advantage of the facilities, the author must be the corresponding author of the article proposed for publication and must indicate the University of Palermo as the affiliation institution at the time of article submission.

● It is expressly required that the corresponding author uses and indicates exclusively an institutional email address (@unipa).

● The types of eligible articles are: Regular Paper; Review Paper; Brief; Invited; Survey.

● The publication process is managed on the publisher's platform; the University (through the appropriate offices of the Library System) will validate the correct affiliation of the corresponding author. As with other transformative contracts managed by CARE-CRUI, there is no pre-established allocation of the fund for open access publishing among the Institutions."

For further details, you can write to: pubblicazione_openaccess@unipa.it.

The Palermo Library System has renewed, through the CRUI-CARE consortium, for the period 2022-2025, the national contract with the IOP publisher for access to electronic journals and (as a “transformative” agreement) for open access publishing, without costs for the authors, in all the publisher’s hybrid and “gold open access” journals (excluding titles from the American Astronomical Society). Within the publication workflow managed by the publisher, the corresponding author interested in publishing their article in open access can indicate their affiliation by selecting the appropriate option in the related form. The author will be identified as “eligible” to use the option through at least one of the following parameters: name of the institution/affiliation or email domain (it is recommended to always indicate the @unipa email address).

The editorial version of the article on the IOP platform will include all the necessary metadata (including, for example, the name and email address of the corresponding author, the full name of the authors’ affiliation and any other affiliations, the acceptance date, the journal title, the journal’s e-issn, the article title, and the type of article). The “open” article will be accompanied by a Creative Commons “CC-BY” 4.0 license. The Publisher will provide the University with a monthly report and an annual statement with all the articles accepted and published in the reference period. If the University does not recognize the corresponding author as affiliated with UniPa, the publisher will reserve the right to offer the corresponding author the possibility to pay the APC outside the contract, therefore with their own funds, or to publish in a different way.

For further details, you can write to the email: pubblicazione_openaccess@unipa.it

Starting from July 2020, authors from Universities that sign the Springer contract under the CARE-CRUI agreement (including the University of Palermo) have the opportunity to publish their article in “open access” mode without having to pay the APC (Article Processing Charge) as it is already included in the contract. Below are the main points of this important update:

● This possibility is provided for over 2,000 journals out of the nearly 2,400 that the University subscribes to.

● The choice to publish in open access is up to the corresponding author, who makes the decision during the article submission process through simple steps.

● If the author chooses to publish in “open” mode, they will retain the copyright (which would otherwise pass to the publisher) and will be free to share, copy, and use their own article without constraints.

● The “open” article will be accompanied by a Creative Commons “CC-BY” license, except for some individual journals that require “CC-BY-NC”: both allow sharing and modifying but under different conditions.

● The publication process is managed on the publisher's platform, in a simple and quick manner: after the publication is accepted by the peer reviewers, Springer identifies the affiliation of the corresponding author who will make the submission using the institutional email address of UniPa or the institutional IP or the name of the University; the corresponding author can decide whether to publish in open access; the University (through the appropriate offices of the Library System) will validate the correct affiliation of the corresponding author.

● Based on the national contract managed by CARE-CRUI, the number of open access publications progressively decreases until exhausted: CARE-CRUI will be aware of the publication trends of all the Universities involved while the individual University will have information exclusively on the open publication choices made by their corresponding authors. Therefore, the individual University does not hold a precise quantity of open publications to use; the total number of open access publications available concerns the entire consortium and it is managed centrally by CARE-CRUI. This number is managed on an annual basis, so each year of the contract (which lasts until 2024) the quota of articles available for the consortium Universities starts over.

For further details, you can write to the email: pubblicazione_openaccess@unipa.it.

The national transformative agreement with the publisher Wiley (2024-2027) has been renewed (under the CARE-CRUI agreement), which includes access to the subscribed resources available on the “Wiley Online Library” platform and open access publication without costs for authors in all Hybrid and Gold Open Access journals published by the publisher (over 1,680 titles in total).

Here are the main points of the agreement:

• Authors affiliated with the University of Palermo can publish their research products in open access without additional costs to them.
• To take advantage of the benefits, one must be the corresponding author of the article proposed for publication and, at the time of article submission, must indicate the University of Palermo as the affiliation institution.
• It is expressly required that the corresponding author uses and indicates only an institutional email address (@unipa).
• The publication process is managed on the publisher’s platform in a simple and quick manner.
• The chosen license for open access publication is Creative Commons CC-BY, which allows the author to retain all rights to the published article.
• Once the publication process is completed with the open access option selected, the library system offices will validate the correct affiliation of the corresponding author.

Similarly to transformative agreements managed by CARE-CRUI, the fund for open access publication is unique for all participating institutions. The possibility of publishing without costs for the APC (Article Processing Charge) is granted until the number of articles allocated by the publisher is exhausted. 

The list of eligible journals for open access publication is divided into two sheets (one for Hybrid titles and one for Gold titles).
Here is the list of classifications of articles eligible for open access publication.