Transformative agreements are signed between the CARE-CRUI Consortium and leading scientific publishers. They are based on the Publish & Read model, which provides access to subscription journals and also covers the costs of Open Access publication in the journals covered by each agreement.

These costs are called APCs (Article Processing Charges). Each contract provides for an annual allocation of APCs, which is managed centrally by the Consortium and is not pre-assigned to individual universities. Once the annual budget has been exhausted, additional articles can only be published in OA upon payment by the author. Extra charges (submission fees, extra pages, color plates, etc.) are not covered by APC vouchers.

All authors formally affiliated with the School who are Corresponding Authors of the paper are eligible for these benefits.

The process to follow is generally as follows:

• Article acceptance: Following final acceptance of the article, the CA is notified by the publisher via email to complete the author flow; the date of acceptance is valid for the eligibility of the article.
• Post-acceptance flow: Through the link in the email, the CA is asked to confirm their affiliation (IP address + institutional email) and choose the publication model: Open Access (the CRUI national agreement to use vouchers is indicated) or subscription (in this case, there are no costs for the author). The last step is to sign the distribution license: for Open Access, this is Creative Commons CC-BY, where the copyright remains with the author; otherwise, for subscription articles, the copyright goes to the publisher.
• Affiliation verification: the publisher asks the Library Staff to confirm the affiliation and the voucher's eligibility.
• Open Access article in production: after confirmation from the Library, the article is published in Open Access and the CA receives the PDF and DOI from the publisher.

Below is a list of valid contracts, with eligible titles and main conditions.