Elsevier, a global leader in research publishing and information analytics and the Royal Danish Library have agreed on a four-year contract to support continued reading and open access (OA) publishing for Danish researchers. This is the first time the Danish consortium led by the Royal Danish Library has signed an open access transformative agreement with any publisher and the agreement complements Elsevier’s transformative agreements across many European countries.
Elsevier will support the Danish researcher community's ambitions by enabling Danish researchers to publish open access across a broad range of Elsevier journals, therefore making their latest research freely available at the point of publication. Elsevier is determined to find the right solutions for its customers and meet customers’ diverse OA requirements across different academic institutions worldwide. The agreement will support over 30 Danish institutions, including the eight leading universities, helping them share their latest research globally. The new agreement program will take effect from January 2021 through to the end of 2024.
Elsevier continues to test and learn from the OA agreements that are already being put into practice with institutions and governments worldwide. This enables Elsevier to work with its partners to improve open access offerings, such as building new workflows and submission processes to provide greater visibility, transparency and a best-in-class publishing experience for authors.
The agreement is the latest in a series of transformative agreements Elsevier has reached with customers across Europe, the US, Asia Pacific and the Middle East.
In 2020 Elsevier published nearly 100,000 gold or pay-to-publish OA articles compared to 50,000 in 2019. Nearly all of Elsevier's 2,600 journals now enable OA publishing, including 500 fully OA journals.
Elsevier enables researchers to stay up to date with the latest science, technology, and health findings from around the world via ScienceDirect, Elsevier's leading platform of peer-reviewed scholarly literature. Overall, ScienceDirect gives researchers access to 16 million articles from over 2,600 journals published by Elsevier and society partners.
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