The agreement provides unlimited access and publication on all the publisher's hybrid and gold OA journals.

Validity Period: 2024-2026

Pubblicazione Open Access

• Publication Costs: publication costs are covered through an unlimited annual national fund;
• Eligible Journals: all hybrid and gold OA journals;
• Eligible Articles: Review Paper and Original Paper (no further subcategories are предусмотрed);
• Corresponding author eligibility: the corresponding author must be affiliated with Politecnico at the time the article is accepted (for articles published by multiple authors, only the author who submitted the article can be considered the Affiliated Author) and must have signed the OA publishing agreement. The University is responsible for verifying the affiliation;
• Licenses: CC-BY 4.0;
• Post-print self-archiving (Green OA): for articles not covered by the agreement cost, authors may publish the post-print version (revised text without publisher formatting) on their own website or in the institutional repository only after a 12-month embargo period. ACS retains copyright ownership, precluding the application of Creative Commons licenses;
• Retrospective conversion: retrospective conversion to OA is not available; even if an article is converted, ACS will not reimburse any costs incurred or return the copyright transferred by the authors.
  
  For more information:
• Guide for OA Publication
• Publisher's website (agreement)
   

The contract provides access to historical content and the possibility of publishing an unlimited number of articles in open access, exclusively in subscribed journals

Validity Period: 1 January 2023 to 31 December 2027

Pubblicazione Open Access

• Publication Costs: from 2025, coverage of publication expenses is guaranteed through an unlimited annual national fund.
• Eligible Articles: articles accepted for publication with an acceptance date within the relevant calendar year.
• Eligible Journals: exclusively the subscribed journals . The subscribed periodicals that, during the validity of the contract, transition from the hybrid model to the full Open Access (Gold OA) model will not be excluded, but will retain their full "eligibility"
• Eligible Article Types: Original paper, Review paper, Case Report, Short Communication.
• Excluded Journals: non-subscribed journals and Gold OA journals
• Corresponding author eligibility: only corresponding authors formally affiliated with the University on the date of article acceptance are eligible, provided that the institutional email address or the institution's name was used for submission.
• Post-print self-archiving (Green OA): for articles not published in open access in hybrid journals, authors may immediately self-archive (Green OA) the post-print reflecting the changes made during the peer-review process on their personal website or in our institutional repository IRIS and make it available in Open Access with an embargo of 12 months.
• Licenses: from 2025, CC BY 4.0 will be set as the default license; however, authors will also be able to publish under the CC BY NC ND 4.0 license. The choice of this second license entails the transfer of commercialization rights to the publisher; therefore, its use is not recommended.

For publication in Open Access, the publisher will require an affiliation check, which will be carried out by the Polytechnic's contacts.

For more information:

• Eligible journals 2026
• Publisher's website (agreement)

Transformative agreement that includes both access to all content of the IEL database (IEEE Electronic Library) and the possibility for corresponding authors affiliated with the Politecnico to publish a limited number of articles in hybrid journals in Open Access mode, without costs to the author.

Validity Period: 1 January 2025 to 31 December 2027.

Pubblicazione Open Access

• Publication Costs: coverage of publication expenses guaranteed through a limited annual national fund, managed according to the principle "first arrived, first served". Publication costs such as submission fees, color pages, and overlength pages fees, etc. are excluded.
• Eligible Articles: articles accepted for publication with an acceptance date within the relevant calendar year. For 2025, only articles accepted from 1 November onward will be eligible.
• Eligible Journals: exclusively hybrid journals until the annual national fund is exhausted. Journals that, during the term of the agreement, transition from the hybrid model to the full Open Access model (Gold OA) will retain their full “eligibility”
• Eligible Article Types: Original Paper, Review Paper, Original research
• Excluded Journals: Gold OA journals
• Corresponding author eligibility: only corresponding authors formally affiliated with the University on the date of article acceptance are eligible, provided that the institutional email address or the institution's name was used for submission.
• Fund exhaustion: if the funds are exhausted, the publisher will immediately disable the option to request coverage of Open Access publication costs on the platform. The new annual coverage will be activated at the beginning of the following year. Please note, however, that the new fund may be used exclusively for articles accepted in the year to which the fund applies; the new coverage cannot be used for articles accepted in the previous year.
• Post-print self-archiving (Green OA): for articles (in journals or conference proceedings) that are not published in open access with costs covered by the agreement, authors may immediately self-archive (Green OA) the post-print (Author’s accepted Manuscript) in our institutional repository IRIS or on their personal websites without any embargo period.
• Licenses: the preferred OA license is CC BY 4.0. Upon the author's specific request, it is possible to opt for the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license.

For more information:
IEEE Author Center
IEEE Open

• Publication Costs: coverage of open access publication costs guaranteed through a limited annual national fund, managed according to the principle "first arrived, first served".
• Eligible articles: original papers and review papers.
• Eligible journals: hybrid journals included in the collections and hybrid journals that become full Open Access during the term of the contract.
• Eligible authors: only corresponding authors formally affiliated with the University on the date of article acceptance are “eligible”, provided that the institutional email or the name of the institution was used for submission.
• Post-print self-archiving (Green OA): possibility of making the post-print version of the articles publicly available on a personal website or in the Institution’s repository after an embargo of 6 months for Nature Academic Journals and 12 months for Springer and Palgrave journals.
• Licenses: CC-BY .

The agreement provides both reading access to the journals on the Wiley Online Library platform and the possibility for corresponding authors affiliated with the Polytechnic to publish Open Access, at no cost to the author, a limited number of articles in hybrid and gold journals.

Validity Period: 1 January 2024 to 31 December 2027
 

Pubblicazione Open Access

• Publication Costs: coverage of publication expenses guaranteed through a limited annual national fund, managed according to the principle "first arrived, first served".
• Eligible Articles: articles accepted for publication with an acceptance date within the relevant calendar year.
• Eligible journals: Hybrid and Gold Open Access journals available on the Wiley Online Library platform until the annual national fund is exhausted. Journals that, during the term of the contract, transition from the hybrid model to the full Open Access model (Gold OA) retain full eligibility.
  The effective dates and the list of qualifications subject to transition are specified and updated in the following references: Year 2026; Year 2027. Articles submitted after the transition date to Gold OA will continue to be covered by the fund. However, with the transition, open access publication becomes mandatory (it will no longer be possible to choose the subscription option). If the fund tokens are exhausted, the APCs will be borne by the author.
• Eligible article types: Case Study, Commentary, Data Article, Education, Lecture, Method and Protocol, Perspective, Practice and Policy, Research Article, Review Article, Short Communication, Technical Note.
• Excluded journals: Hindawi journals
• Corresponding author eligibility: only corresponding authors formally affiliated with the University on the date of article acceptance are eligible, provided that the institutional email address or the institution's name was used for submission.
• Fund exhaustion: if the coverage fund is exhausted, authors choosing hybrid journals may publish under restricted access/subscription (at no cost to them). Authors choosing Gold OA journals, on the other hand, must always cover the Open Access publication costs (APCs) themselves. The new annual coverage will be activated at the beginning of the following year. Please note, however, that the new fund may be used exclusively for articles accepted in the year to which the fund applies; the new coverage cannot be used for articles accepted in the previous year.
• Post-print self-archiving (Green OA): for articles in hybrid journals published without OA, with costs covered by the agreement, authors may immediately self-archive (Green OA) the post-print (Author’s accepted Manuscript) on their personal website or in our institutional repository IRIS and make it available in Open Access with a maximum embargo of 12 months. 
• Licences: CC-BY. Authors who wish to publish articles under other licences may do so outside the agreement and bear the publication costs independently, using funds other than those provided under the agreement.
  
  For publication in Open Access, the publisher will require an affiliation check to be conducted by the Representatives of the Polytechnic.

For more information:

• Riviste eleggibili - Sito dell'editore (Italy agreement)

Transformative agreement that includes both access to the content of the Library Package SSH and the possibility for affiliated corresponding authors of Politecnico to publish a limited number of articles in Open Access on hybrid journals.

Validity period: 2026-2027

Pubblicazione Open Access

• Publication costs: publication costs covered through a limited annual national fund;
• Eligible journals: it is possible to publish in hybrid
• Eligible articlesResearch Article, Brief Report, Note, Essay, Report, Review Article, Research Letter, Discussion, Case Report, Method, Article Commentary, Pictorial Work, Reply, Rapid Communication, Data Note, Legal Case, Dissertation, Multimedia Article, Target Article, Plain Language Summary, Registered Report;
• Corresponding author eligibility: corresponding author affiliated with Politecnico on the date the contribution is accepted. It should be noted that, in the case of articles published by multiple authors, only the author who submitted the article may be considered the corresponding author. Verification of affiliation is the responsibility of the University;
• Autoarchiviazione post-print (Green OA): authors may deposit the Author’s Accepted Manuscript (post-print) version of articles not covered by the contract cost or for which APCs have not been paid on their own website or in the institutional repository and make it freely accessible after a 12-month embargo;
• Fund exhaustion: in the event that the annual allocation is exhausted, the automatic approval system will be suspended and it will no longer be possible to request coverage of Open Access publication costs. The author may choose whether to publish in the traditional manner or to publish in Open Access by covering the costs themselves.

Riviste eleggibili - Sito dell'editore (Italy agreement)

• List of eligible journals