Starting from July 2020 SISSA has signed a few so-called Transformative Agreements with some of the major STEM journals publishers. These agreements have been reached thanks to Italian CRUI consortium, and generally mean that SISSA users have the possibility to:
- access online subscription based journals
- publish open access in hybrid or gold journals at no additional cost (because APC are covered by SISSA)
According to Library Regulations (D.D. 194 d.d. 04.03.2024) this opportunity will be granted only to authors who have explicitly indicated SISSA as their affiliation in the relevant paper.
The use of SISSA institutional email is strongly suggested, in order to avoid mistakes by the publisher.
Depending on the different contracts there may be a limited number of articles per year: when the maximum of articles for the current year is reached, exceeding articles may be published open access only if the authors pay the fee. Other contracts have unlimited articles.
No author will be obliged to publish open access, but all eligible authors are invited to do so.
Depending on the publisher’s workflow: the affiliation indicated by the author has to be validated by the library staff before the article is actually published, only when the validation is granted, the author will receive a confirmation; or the affiliation is validated afterwards.
Authors will maintain their copyright.
Please be aware that these services are not included and will be charged directly to the author:
Services related to pages
Colour pages or images
Covers
Reprints
Videos in abstracts
Editing services
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (2025-2027)
Starting form January 2026 SISSA Corresponding Authors have right to apply an affiliation 12% discount for Research Articles published in Science Advances. See more information
American Chemical Society (2024-2026)
SISSA Corresponding Authors have right to publish Gold Open Access articles in hybrid and gold ACS journals https://acsopenscience.org/hybrid-acs-journals/.
Licence: CC-BY
Who is eligible? Corresponding Authors who have indicated SISSA as their affiliation will be offered this opportunity when the article is accepted, so make sure you indicate SISSA as your affiliation.
The validation of the author’s affiliation is made by SISSA library staff.
Workflow on Rightlinks platform
See more information:
https://solutions.acs.org/access-options/academic/all-publications/
https://acsopenscience.org/institutions/read-and-publish/
https://acsopenscience.org/customers/care-crui/
https://solutions.acs.org/acs-kbart-files/
American Institute of Physics (2022-2026)
Starting from 2023 SISSA Corresponding Authors have right to publish Gold Open Access articles in AIP hybrid journals.
Who is eligible? Corresponding Authors who have indicated SISSA as their affiliation will be offered this opportunity when the article is accepted, so make sure you indicate SISSA as your affiliation. If you think you are eligible but you are not offered to do so, please contact library staff journals@sissa.it or OApublications@sissa.it
There is a limited amount of articles per year.
Please find here updated and detailed information Read and Publish - AIP Publishing LLC
The Company of Biologists (2024-2026)
Starting from 2024 SISSA corresponding Authors have right to publish Gold Open Access an uncapped number of articles in Company of Biologists journals.
Who is eligible? Corresponding Authors who have indicated SISSA as their affiliation will be offered this opportunity when the article is accepted, so make sure you use your institutional email and indicate SISSA as your affiliation. If you think you are eligible but you are not offered to do so, please contact library staff journals@sissa.it or OApublications@sissa.it your article may be retrospectively published open
There is no limit to the number of articles to be published.
A step-by-step guide for authors is available here
IOP (2022-2025 under discussion in 2026)
Access to journals and OA publishing will be guaranteed during contract discussion.
Starting form 01.01.2023 SISSA Corresponding Authors have right to publish Gold Open Access articles in IOP hybrid and gold journals.
Who is eligible? Corresponding Authors who have indicated SISSA as their affiliation will be offered this opportunity when the article is accepted, so make sure you use your institutional email and indicate SISSA as your affiliation. If you think you are eligible but you are not offered to do so, please contact library staff journals@sissa.it or OApublications@sissa.it your article may be retrospectively published open
There is no limit to the number of articles to be published.
Please find here updated and detailed information:
https://publishingsupport.iopscience.iop.org/publishing-support/authors/open-access/transformative-agreements-hub/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtmJBFn9eo4
https://publishingsupport.iopscience.iop.org/questions/researchers-from-institutions-within-the-crui-consortium/
Please note that American Astronomical Society has not taken part in this agreement so Astrophysical Journal and other AAS publication fees are not covered.
Oxford University Press (2024-2026)
The contract is to be signed shortly (January 2025). Starting form 2025 SISSA Corresponding Authors have right to publish Gold Open Access articles in OUP hybrid journals.
Who is eligible? Corresponding Authors who have indicated SISSA as their affiliation will be offered this opportunity when the article is accepted, so make sure you indicate SISSA as your affiliation. If you think you are eligible but you are not offered to do so, please contact library staff journals@sissa.it or OApublications@sissa.it.
Eligible articles: Research Article, Review Article, Case Report, Brief Reports
Eligible articles published during 2024 will be converted, SISSA corresponding authors who published articles in OUP journals during 2024 and want them to be open should contact journals@sissa.it
A 15% discount will be applied for APC on full gold journals.
There is no limit to the number of articles to be published.
Details may be found here: Italian Institutions (CRUI affiliated) | Oxford Academic and r&p_author_guide.pdf.
Springer - Nature (2025-2029)
SISSA corresponding authors are entitled to publish Gold Open Access articles in eligible Springer Nature hybrid journals, provided they indicate SISSA as their primary affiliation when submitting the manuscript.
Eligible journals: all hybrid Springer, Palgrave, Adis, Nature academic journals (excluding fully open access journals) + all hybrid Nature and Nature research journals (excluding full open access journals, Nature reviews, Nature protocols, Scientific American)
Eligible papers: Original papers and Review Papers in Springer journals
Primary research papers in Nature journals
Licence: CC-BY
The author’s affiliation is validated by SISSA library staff on the Springer platform
Vouchers are limited and might be exhausted before the end of the year
For detailed information see Open access agreements for Italy | Open science | Springer Nature
Wiley (2024-2027)
CRUI estimate that the vouchers for Wiley 2026 OA publication will be exhausted by the end of October. Articles accepted between that moment and 31.12.2026 will not be eligible for free publication. New vouchers will be available starting from 01.01.2027.
SISSA Corresponding Authors can publish Gold Open Access articles in Wiley hybrid and full open journals. Hindawi journals are not included.
Only original paper and reviews paper (no brief communications).
Licence: CC-BY (CC-BY-NC for some journals)
Who is eligible? Corresponding Authors who have indicated SISSA as their affiliation, will be offered this opportunity when the article is accepted, so make sure you use your institutional email and indicate SISSA as your affiliation.
The validation of the author’s affiliation is made by SISSA library staff on Wiley platform.
Vouchers are limited and might end before the end of the year, authors should keep this possibility in mind when submitting papers to full gold journals.
Workflow on Wiley platform
See detailed information here:
https://authorservices.wiley.com/home.html
https://authorservices.wiley.com/author-resources/Journal-Authors/open-access/index.html
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This page will be updated when other Read&Publish contracts are signed.
If you need any more information, please contact library staff journals@sissa.it or OApublications@sissa.it