Elsevier, a global leader in research publishing and information analytics, the Conference of Rectors of Spanish Universities (Crue Universidades Españolas) and the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) have agreed on a new four-year pilot to support continued reading and open access (OA) publishing for universities and CSIC’s researchers in Elsevier’s hybrid journals. This is one of the largest transformative agreements that Elsevier has reached and complements the pilot agreements that are already in place across many European countries.
Elsevier will support the Crue-CSIC’s goals by enabling their researchers to publish OA across a broad range of Elsevier journals, making their latest research freely available at the point of publication. This agreement will support 59 participating Spanish institutions and will apply to articles accepted from January 1, 2021, through to the end of 2024.
Elsevier aims to find the right solutions to meet the diverse needs of academic institutions, researchers, and funders worldwide while ensuring published research remains trusted and high quality.
This agreement is the 17th transformative agreement Elsevier has reached with customers across Europe, the US, Asia Pacific, and the Middle East. Elsevier is testing and learning from these agreements enabling us to provide our customers with choices that meet their diverse needs.
In 2020 Elsevier published 81,000 open access articles, up 65 percent from 2019, making the company one of the world's largest open access publishers. Nearly all of Elsevier's 2,600 journals now enable OA publishing.
Elsevier enables researchers to stay up to date with the latest science, technology, and health findings worldwide 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 its society partners.
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