Research Publishing & Impact: Elsevier

Included titles

This agreement allows authors from participating institutions to publish open access in 235 titles with no transactional APCs. This includes high impact titles such as:

• Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews
• Applied Catalysis B: Environmental
• Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews

And titles with high Australian and New Zealand authorship, such as:

• Science of the Total Environment
• Women and Birth
• Chemical Engineering Journal

View the 2023 Otago titles list.

Eligible articles

Article types

Open access publishing covered under this Read & Publish agreement includes the following article types:

• Full Length Articles
• Review Articles
• Case Reports
• Practice Guidelines
• Replication Study

Authors may publish excluded article types as “closed access” or pay an article processing charge (if applicable) to make the article open access.

Acceptance date

Eligible articles that have an acceptance date during the term of this agreement (2023 - 2025) are eligible to be published open access under the terms of the agreement.

Number of included articles

This agreement provides for 7,010 articles to be published open access in 2023.

Other charges

• A small number of included journals have mandatory page charges that are not covered by the agreement.
• Colour printing is optional and colour printing charges are not included under the terms of the agreement. Figures can appear in colour online and black-and-white in print at no charge. These charges only apply to journals with print issues.
• A small number of journals (mostly in the Economics field) have submission charges that are not covered by the agreement.
• When submitting articles for publication, please check individual journal home pages for up-to-date information on page and colour charges.

Corresponding authors from institutions listed under 'Participating institutions' may publish immediately to open access on the publisher's platform once the article has been accepted, with no transactional APCs.

Author rights

Articles from authors at participating institutions may be published under the authors' choice of either

• CC-BY
• CC-BY-NC-ND

The Creative Commons licenses allow reuse (some with conditions) while protecting the authors' rights of acknowledgment as authors. Authors retain copyright.

Please note: Under the CC BY-NC-ND license and for the Elsevier user license permitted 3rd party reuse is only applicable for non-commercial purposes. For further details on the rights granted to Elsevier see our copyright information or to obtain permission for commercial use see our permission information. Also note further permission may be required from the rights owner for any content within an article that is identified as belonging to a third party.
 

How to submit your article for open access publishing

1. Follow the publisher's usual article submission process via https://www.elsevier.com/authors/submit-your-paper
2. On acceptance of the article, the publisher will ask the corresponding author to make their publishing choices and complete a form (publishing agreement).
3. The corresponding author selects open access and confirms the licence type (e.g. CC-BY).
4. The APC is automatically waived for authors who have declared their affiliation to a participating CAUL institution during the publishing workflow.

Author identification

Authors will be identified as eligible for open access publishing by their institutional affiliation.

Authors must use their institutional email address when submitting an article for publication in order for the publication to be approved to be published open access with no transactional APCs.

Archiving in institutional repositories

Authors may deposit articles in institutional repositories.

• Preprints may be deposited at any time 
• For subscription articles, Author accepted manuscripts may be made available via institutional repositories after the journal’s stated embargo period.
• Gold open access articles may be deposited at any time

View the publisher’s policy on article sharing for further information.

Reading

The agreement provides access to all journals listed under ‘Included titles’.

Archiving in institutional repositories

Authors may deposit articles in institutional repositories.

• Preprints may be deposited at any time 
• For subscription articles, Author accepted manuscripts may be made available via institutional repositories after the journal’s stated embargo period.
• Gold open access articles may be deposited at any time

View the publisher’s policy on article sharing for further information.
 

Reporting

The publisher will supply CAUL Procurement Services with reports on publishing output with article-level information monthly. CAUL will share publishing output data with participating institutions on a regular basis. 

Elsevier - Retrospectively submitting an article to OA (having submitted behind paywall)

Elsevier can retrospectively convert the publishing model (from Subscription to OA) utilizing the CAUL quota.

Please ask your author to contact publishing support here to start the process: https://service.elsevier.com/app/contact/supporthub/publishing/

The full process is here: https://service.elsevier.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5997/c/10533/supporthub/publishing/kw/open+access/ (except there would be no invoice for eligible articles under the agreement).

In essence, Elsevier will gather the article details from the author and then resubmit to the publication system, for approval from CAUL.