CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency, and Elsevier, a global leader in research publishing and information analytics, have announced a new three-year agreement. Under the deal, Elsevier will provide CSIRO researchers with access to global academic research and open access publishing options. This is the first agreement that includes reading and publishing services for Elsevier across the Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) region.
The new agreement provides CSIRO researchers with access to ScienceDirect, Elsevier’s world-leading platform that brings together scientific knowledge and peer-reviewed research with over 16 million articles from the company’s more than 2,500 journals, enabling researchers to publish open access across Elsevier journals.
According to CSIRO’s Chief Information and Data Officer, Brendan Dalton, this new read and publish agreement is an important milestone in CSIRO’s open access publishing position.
Elsevier is one of the world’s fastest-growing open access publishers, with over 49,000 gold open access articles published in 2019, 40 percent more than the previous year. In 2019, Elsevier launched 100 new gold open access journals, bringing today's total to over 500 Elsevier-published fully OA titles. These join more than 1,900 hybrid journals that already offer the option to publish open access. Additionally, more than 2,300 of Elsevier’s 2,500+ journals offer the option to publish open access and make an article freely available.
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