Elsevier, a global leader in research publishing and information analytics, and the Kooperation E-Medien Österreich (KEMÖ) / The Austrian Academic Library Consortium, including the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), have agreed on a three-year pilot to support continued reading and open access (OA) publishing for Austrian researchers. This pilot allows OA publishing in Elsevier’s hybrid journals together with an additional one-year agreement that will support Austrian researchers to publish in fully gold open access journals. This agreement complements Elsevier's transformative and pilot agreements across many European countries and represents libraries, the funder and the publisher coming together to support open access.
Elsevier will support the Austrian researcher community’s ambitions, 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. We do so while critically ensuring published research remains trusted and of a high quality. This agreement will support over 40 Austrian institutions, helping them share their latest research globally.
The new agreement program will take effect from January 1, 2021 through to the end of 2023. Elsevier continues to test and learn from the OA agreements that are already being put into practice with institutions and governments worldwide. These agreements enables the global publisher to work with its partners to continually improve their OA 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 81,000 gold or pay-to-publish OA articles, an increase of 65 percent over 2019. Nearly all of Elsevier's 2,600 journals now enable OA publishing, including 500 fully OA journals.
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