Publishing Open Access and Using Transformative Agreements
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Open Science services and Regulations at SNS
How to publish Open Access at the Scuola Normale
page maintained by the the Research Assessment and Open Science Service, which indicates the possibilities that SNS affiliates have to publish in Open Access, with indications for the choice of the editorial office; includes indications for accessing the SNS fund intended for Open Access publications.
Regulation on Open Access to scientific literature of the Scuola Normale Superiore
Open Access Publishing at SNS using the Transformative Agreements
The transformative agreements, managed by the Library, are contract formulae of varying types signed by institutions (often associates in consortiums) and international scientific editors whose main aim is the gradual shift from a traditional business model based only on subscriptions to read content to one that supports the publication of open access articles.
The Scuola Normale, as it progressively adopts this type of agreements in the context of the negotiations conducted by the CARE-CRUI Group with academic editors, will no longer pay publishers solely to access the contents, but also to allow affiliated researchers (that is, the corresponding authors) to publish their own open access works in "hybrid" journals (subscription journals in which only some of the articles are open access) and, for some editors, also those in "gold open access" (completely in open access), making them permanently available to all.
The publication costs (APC - Article Processing Charges) will be entirely included in the contractual fee, hence no added costs will be borne by the individual authors.
There will be no pre-established distribution of the APCs for publishing in open access among the member institutions: the fees will progressively diminish until the number available at a national level runs out.
All researchers of the SNS (professors, researchers, research fellows, PhDs, etc.) who are corresponding authors of the articles proposed for publication and who have a formal relationship with the SNS can publish in open access in the context of signed transformative agreements.
The corresponding author is the author who is responsible for submitting the article and following the entire publication process, authorized to act as a contact with the publisher on behalf of any co-authors.
The Creative Commons CC-BY license is generally applied to articles published with open access, as part of the signed transformative agreements (with the exception of some individual titles that require a CC BY NC license), and the copyright remains with the author.
Authors wishing to publish in a hybrid journal not included in a transformative agreement are advised not to pay any APCs requested by the publisher but to self-archive the permitted version of their work in an open access institutional or disciplinary archive, verifying the publisher's policy relating to open access to the Open Policy Finder database or by contacting the Research Assessment and Open Science Service.
The workflow envisaged by the various publishers for the corresponding author for open access publication has some common characteristics.
Affiliation: the corresponding author's affiliation mechanism with their own institution is activated within the platform set up by the publisher for managing the submission, review and acceptance process of the articles by entering the SNS and their institutional email address in their own profile (@ sns.it)./p>
Acceptance of agreement: once the peer review phase has been completed, the publisher notifies the corresponding author that an agreement has been stipulated with the SNS thanks to which it is possible to publish the article with open access without incurring any additional cost and the latter is therefore invited to choose whether or not to agree to the proposal.
Choice of license: in the case of acceptance, the corresponding author, through the platform specially prepared by the publisher, is guided in the choice of the license that will be applied to the open access publication of his article, usually a CC BY license.
Validation of the article: the publisher, through the CRUI or thanks to the automatic notifications of its platform, sends to the approval managers of the SNS (the technical contacts of the library who manage the agreement) a request for confirmation and validation of the affiliation in order to proceed with the publication of the article.
Publication of the article: the publisher sends the corresponding author a confirmation of the open access publication of the article.
Active Transformative Agreements for SNS Affiliates
For each publisher with whom the Scuola Normale has currently activated a transformative agreement, all the necessary information is provided.
- American Chemical Society (ACS)
- American Institute of Physics (AIP)
- Cambridge University Press (CUP)
- De Gruyter
- Elsevier
- Institute of Physics (IOP)
- Springer Nature
- Wiley
Open Disciplinary Repositories for publishing your Research Outputs
This list of disciplinary repositories for the self-archiving of research outputs in the active research areas at SNS is only an initial selection among the many initiatives of this kind available on the web. For more comprehensive information, we recommend consulting ROAR (Registry of Open Access Repositories).
STEM subjects
- authoritative archive that makes available in open access the research outputs produced and archived by scientists belonging to the following disciplinary areas: Mathematics, Physics, Computer Science, Non-linear Sciences, Biology, Financial Mathematics, Statistics. Since the '90s, it has represented a point of reference, especially for mathematicians and physicists who, like many scientists of the Scuola Normale, deposit their works there.
BaAMPS : the database of biofilm-active antimicrobial peptides
- database for studying AMPs against biofilms, of interest to microbiologists, bioinformatics researchers, and medical scientists working in this field. A project developed in collaboration between Istituto Nanoscienze del CNR Pisa, Center for Nanotechnology Innovation dell'Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, NEST Scuola Normale Superiore, Università di Pisa.
bioRxiv : the preprint server for Biology
- open archive of pre-print papers (not yet published in journals), in the field of life sciences, managed by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
ChemRxiv : the Preprint Server for Chemistry
- open archive of pre-print papers, in the field of chemistry and related areas.
- self-deposit archive of scientific contributions; managed by the University of Southampton, it covers these subject areas: psychology, neuroscience, linguistics, computer science, philosophy, biology, areas of physics, mathematics, social sciences relevant to the study of cognitive science.
- self-archiving repository for articles, books, patents, and clinical guidelines in the life sciences. Offers authors a tool to retrieve their ORCID identifier, with extended searches for grants from 29 biomedical funders.
- authoritative open-access self-deposit archive in particle physics, operated since the 1960s by the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC); the archive brings together research results from research environments and institutions around the world.
SSH subjects
- self-archiving repository in the field of Linguistics, managed by The Arctic University of Norway. It accepts any version of a paper (pre-print, post-print, or publisher’s version), although full-text access to peer-reviewed versions may be subject to an embargo if required by the journal.
PhilSci : an archive for Preprints in Philosophy of Science
- archivio aperto per l'autoarchivizione, specificamente pensato e gestito da filosofi della scienza. Gestito da University of Pittsburgh, ospita articoli di periodici, atti di convegni e workshop, libri, capitoli e sezioni di libri, preprint sottoposti alla validazione di un Board’s Executive Committee.
- platform for the deposit of papers in pre-print version, divided into 4 areas: Arts & Humanities / Law / Education / Social & Behavioral Science.
Social Science Open Access Repository (SSOAR)
- repository of the Leibniz Association for depositing research outputs in the social sciences, freely available in full text. Its coverage mainly includes the following fields: sociology and political science and their methodologies; social policy; social psychology; population studies; historical social research; employment research; and communication studies.