| Model |
Read & Publish Agreement |
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| Term | 2024 - 2027 | |
| Fees | ~ Library cost neutral | |
| Participants | Current SCELC Elsevier Journal Package Subscribers | 37 Institutions |
| Publisher Description | See selected details on Elsevier's Open Access Agreements website | SCELC Agreement |
| Publish Benefits | 'Core' Hybrid Journals (Uncapped) Fully OA Journals (Capped) |
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| APC Fees Covered |
Core Hybrid Journals (Unlimited Corresponding Author Article APC Waivers)
Fully Open Access Journals (Capped Corresponding Author Article APC Waivers)
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| Growth | Fully Open Access Journals: 24-25% growth in APC Drawdown Account value | |
| APC Discount | 10% in Fully OA journals (if Cap is exceeded in any given year) | |
| Eligible Journals (OA Publishing) |
Core hybrid titles in the ScienceDirect Freedom Collection plus 170 specialty journals, as well as core fully OA (Gold) titles
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| Eligible Authors | Those with a participating institution email address. Use of the institutional email address throughout is highly recommended, and OrcID entry is encouraged | |
| Eligible Article Types |
Full-length article, Short communication, Short survey, Review article, Data, Case report, Micro articles, Original software publication, Video article, Protocols, Replication studies, Practice guidelines |
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| Eligible Article Dates | Original acceptance date between 1 January 2024 and 31 December 2027. | |
| License options |
Closed (in Hybrid journals) and Open CC-BY, Open CC BY-NC, Open CC-BY-NC-ND |
Open Access Licenses |
| Retroactive Conversion | Corresponding Authors that have published a journal article under a subscription model in a Core Hybrid Eligible Journal during the agreement may notify Elsevier by 31 January of the following year via email that they wish to retroactively convert the journal article to open access status, and such article will be changed to an open access article with appropriate open access terms for the Corresponding Author. If the Corresponding Author chooses a license other than CC-BY for an open access article, upon request of the Corresponding Author, Elsevier will work with the Corresponding Author to facilitate changing the license to CC-BY. The author should contact the Journal Article Publishing Support Center to make the request, mentioning that they are covered under the SCELC agreement. More info | |
| Publishing History | SCELCs annual output: 2022 Hybrid: 367; 2022 Fully OA: 63 | Institutional Publishing History |
| Read Benefits | Access to closed articles 1995 to present (Status quo by institution) | |
| Journals Included | Varies depending on Access Package: Freedom Collection, Subject Collection, UTL, College Edition (V1-present) | |
| Post Cancellation Access Rights |
Included for Subscribed titles (College Editions Subscribers have no Subscribed titles) |
2024 lists available on request |
| Workflow | Automated, Author-driven | Overview Slides |
| Identification | at Acceptance: Based on corresponding author institution at submission. [propietary Ringgold-based list] | |
| Approval | Elsevier is confirming institutional affiliation on the back end. This manual approval does NOT delay open publication. | |
| Reporting |
Minimum metadata requirements are: Corresponding Author name, Corresponding Author affiliation, corresponding author e-mail, funding grant IDs (if provided), date of submission, date of acceptance, journal title, ISSN, article title, article type, article APC and discount (if any), open access Y/N, DOI, and CC license. Elsevier will also provide access to SCELCs agreement publication dashboard on request. |
Monthly to SCELC, quarterly to Libraries |
| License | 2024 - 2027 License | |
| License Info |
Individual institution schedules are omitted. |
Consortia Manager Agreement link |