Unife has signed the 2023-2025 transformative agreement signed by CRUI's Electronic Resources Area with the publisher Cambridge University Press (CUP).
From the university's network, or from a connection outside the Unife LAN using the OpenVPN software, thanks to the CRUI-CUP contract, it is possible to consult the Cambridge Full Collection (408 journals in 2023) by accessing the platform Cambridge Core.
For the entire duration of the contract, Unife researchers will also be able to publish with open access in all the publisher's Hybrid and Gold journals. Information for submitting a contribution to the CUP website.
When publishing with Open Access, the APC (Article Processing Charge) is ascribed to the contract participation cost paid by the university.
The list of «hybrid» journals included in the CRUI-CUP transformative agreement can be consulted here.
At this URL it is possible to consult all the information on the contract signed by the university, and other information on open access publishing in this publisher's journals.
The number of OA publications is unlimited for three years. Consequently, CRUI has not provided for a pre-established allocation of funds for OA publication in hybrid and Gold journals among the institutions participating in the contract.
The articles considered to be suitable for OA publication are Research Articles, Review Articles, Rapid Communications, Brief Reports, Case Reports.
The clauses of the CRUI-CUP contract can be consulted here.
The OA licence CC-BY 4.0 and the authors will retain rights over the articles.
A procedure is planned to retroactively recover the expenses from articles published in eligible Hybrid and Gold journals from 1st January 2023: for articles published with OA in contract journals, a refund of the amounts paid for APCs will be provided to authors.