NEW From 1st July 2023 the Elsevier Read & Publish Agreement will be expanded from the current selected title list of 235 journals to include 1,649 hybrid titles.
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This Elsevier capped agreement includes all 1649 Elsevier journals in the Core-Hybrid Freedom Collection, which allows authors from participating institutions to publish open access with no transactional article processing charges (APCs). The cap is set at 7138 articles for 2023. Extra titles and cap levels will be confirmed later for 2024 and 2025 sections of this agreement.
The title list is based on publications with the highest rate of publishing in 2022. The aim of this approach is to cover the highest demand titles whilst trying to ensure the publishing cap lasts the full 12 months.
15% discount on the APC is available for Gold Open Access journal titles.
This agreement allows authors from participating institutions to publish open access in 1649 hybrid titles with no transactional APCs. This includes high impact titles such as:
And titles with high Australian and New Zealand authorship, such as:
View the 2023 Otago titles list.
Open access publishing covered under this Read & Publish agreement includes the following article types:
Authors may publish excluded article types as “closed access” or pay an article processing charge (if applicable) to make the article open access.
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.
This agreement provides for 7,138 articles to be published open access in 2023.
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.
Articles from authors at participating institutions may be published under the authors' choice of either
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.
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.
Authors may deposit articles in institutional repositories.
View the publisher’s policy on article sharing for further information.
The agreement provides access to all journals listed under ‘Included titles’.
Authors may deposit articles in institutional repositories.
View the publisher’s policy on article sharing for further information.
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 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.