Transformative agreements are particular contracts stipulated with publishers to convert the traditional “Pay per view” model into the “Read and Publish” one. This model allows authors to publish their works in open access at no additional cost.
At the moment, IMT School subscribes to the following transformative agreements through CRUI-CARE negotiation:
Contract: 2022-2025
Contents: full-text access to the publications accessible on the ACM Digital Library platform and the possibility for authors affiliated with the IMT School to publish in open access on the hybrid journals, the gold open access journals and on the conference proceedings.
Management of open-access publication: corresponding authors affiliated with the IMT School, can publish in open-access research and review articles, conference or proceedings papers, short papers, technical notes, tutorials, case studies, interviews e surveys, by using institutional email at the moment of the submission. The publication is under a Creative Common license and authors retain copyright.
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As of January 2025, applying for facilities (vouchers or discounts) for publications in gold open-access journals will no longer be possible.
Contract: 2023-2027
Contents: full-text access to the publications of the subscribed collections accessible on the Science Direct platform and the possibility for authors affiliated with the IMT School to publish in open access on the subscribed journals at no additional cost.
Where it's possible to publish:
- in hybrid journals included in subscribed collections (unlimited articles starting from 2025).
Accepted contributions: original research articles, review articles, case reports, and short communications.
Publication license: CC-BY; CC-BY NC-ND (not recommended).
Management of open-access publication: all authors affiliated with the IMT School can take advantage of the open-access publication. The submission must be made using the formal name of the institution (Scuola IMT Alti Studi Lucca) and the institutional email address. The number of articles granted for publication is limited for the contract's first two years (2023 and 2024), and unlimited for the remaining years. For publications in fully OA journals, the 2023 and 2024 costs will be deducted from a pre-paid fund that will be renegotiated for subsequent contract years.
The contract with the publisher expired in December 2024 and it is currently not allowed to publish in open access under the terms of the agreement.
Contract: 2022-2024
Contents: access to full text of all the publications included in the IEEE Xplore platform and the possibility for authors affiliated with the IMT School to publish in open access. Overlength and color charges are not included.
Management of open-access publication: corresponding authors affiliated with the IMT School, can publish in open-access regular papers, review papers, briefs, invited papers, and surveys, by using institutional email at the moment of the submission.
License of publication: CC-BY 4.0; CC-BY NC-ND.
Contract: 2020-2024
Contents: access to full text of all journals included in the SpringerLink platform (from 1997 to the present) and the possibility for authors affiliated with the IMT School to publish in open access in hybrid journals.
Management of open-access publication: corresponding authors affiliated with the IMT School, can publish in open-access original papers and review papers. They must be published under a Creative Commons CC-BY license for most of the journals and, more specifically, a CC-BY-NC license for some of them. Authors retain copyright.