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As one of the world’s fastest growing access publishers, Elsevier enables open access in nearly all its 2,700+ journals, with 600+ dedicated open access journals.
Further information on this agreement is available from Elsevier.
This page was last updated on 16 January 2025.
The following institutions participate in this agreement:
* These institutions have access to only selected titles. Please refer to the Elsevier Journal Finder for further details.
Authors who do not see their institution listed above should contact library staff to enquire further.
This agreement allows authors from participating institutions to publish in most of Elsevier's hybrid journals without the need for any transactional open access article processing charge (APC).
This is a capped agreement. This agreement provides for an allowance of 13,689 articles by authors from institutions participating in the agreement to be published open access in 2025 with no transactional APCs.
Selected hybrid journals can utilize the APC quota since core hybrid titles outside of the Freedom Collection are eligible for a discount.
Articles accepted from 1/1/2025 are eligible to be published open access under this agreement.
The following article types are eligible for open access under this agreement:
As defined by the publisher, the eligible author is:
The corresponding author is the person who submits the manuscript and other related documentation to the journal and is the primary contact between the journal and all other authors. If the paper is published, the corresponding author is also the first point of contact for readers. For more details are available from the website under Eligibility FAQs section.
Responsible corresponding authors must include a participating institution as one of their affiliations to benefit from this agreement.
Authors will be identified as eligible for open access publishing by their:
Responsible corresponding authors must use their institutional email address when submitting an article for publication.
Responsible corresponding authors should not use personal email addresses (e.g. Hotmail, Gmail). Doing so may result in delayed approval of the article or the article may not be approved to be published open access under the terms of the agreement.
Articles not covered by this agreement may benefit from a 15% discount on eligible APCs. Please consult the title list for eligible journals.
Discounts exist for gold open-access journals not covered by the Quota.
The discount will be automatically presented to authors who are publishing in eligible titles.
The agreement allows for publishing in most journals. If you wish to publish open access, please check to ensure that your desired journal is included.
The title list is dynamic and will change throughout the year. To check for a title or search by subject area please use this website.
Hybrid journals that 'flip' to OA during the course of the agreement remain available for OA publishing for the duration of the agreement.
Articles from authors at participating institutions may be published under the following Creative Commons licenses:
Some or all exclusive rights are assigned to the publisher.
Please see here for Elsevier's OA licence policies.
Further information about licenses is available on the publisher's website.
The Creative Commons licenses allow reuse (some with conditions) while protecting the authors' rights of acknowledgment as authors.
Article approvals are managed by CAUL via a custom publisher platform.
Elsevier does charge additional fees for page and/or colour fees. Authors should always check each journal’s submission guidelines to ensure that they will not be subject to any other fees or charges.
The following instructions for authors have been provided by the publisher. Further details are available on the publisher’s website.
1.Follow Elsevier's usual article submission process via https://www.elsevier.com/authors/submit-your-paper
2.On acceptance of the article, the Elsevier 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).
The APC is automatically waived for authors who have declared their affiliation to a participating CAUL institution during the publishing workflow
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Please email oasupport@elsevier.com for questions regarding this agreement. Please include your full name, institution, article title, journal name and DOI (if available), and state the reason for your enquiry.
Please contact library staff at your institution for questions related to this agreement. They can provide advice on using the CAUL Open Access Agreements.
