Taylor & Francis signs three-year OA agreement with Italian universities
Taylor & Francis has announced a new three-year open access (OA) agreement with CRUI (Conferenza dei Rettori delle Università Italiane), the association representing Italian state and private universities.
The read-and-publish agreement, which has been adopted by 33 CRUI member institutions, will allow eligible researchers to publish OA articles in more than 2,100 Taylor & Francis and Routledge Open Select hybrid journals without paying individual article publishing charges.
The agreement covers research across the social sciences, humanities, science, technology, engineering and medicine, with articles made openly available immediately upon publication.
Backdated to January 2025, the deal will also enable hundreds of articles published by researchers at participating institutions since the beginning of that year to be retrospectively converted to OA.
Under the reading component of the agreement, participating universities can select journals from across the Taylor & Francis portfolio to meet their institutional requirements. Additional subscriptions outside the core agreement will be available at discounted rates.
Dr Antonio Torrisi of the Library and Coworking Services Center at the University of Catania said: “The CRUI agreement with Taylor & Francis provides important strategic advantages to the University of Catania, our authors and library users. For the university the new agreement supports the ‘third mission’, sharing new knowledge with broader society, as well as increasing institutional visibility and prestige. Our authors benefit from dedicated support to publish in high-impact journals, accelerating the international dissemination of their studies. For library users the agreement ensures access to the resources they need, both enriching teaching and inspiring innovative research.”
Carolyn Kirby, Vice President & Commercial Lead at Taylor & Francis, said: “We’re absolutely delighted to have reached an agreement that fully meets the ambitions of CRUI members and their researchers. This partnership reflects our ongoing commitment to working with research communities worldwide to advance open research in ways that are practical, equitable, and aligned with institutional priorities.”