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Enabling open access to knowledge

Advancing open access to serve researchers, science and society.

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Open access at Elsevier

Open access is a key part of our commitment to a collaborative, inclusive, and transparent world of research where quality knowledge can be shared and built upon to advance outcomes.

As a global leader in open access, we offer a wide range of options to fit the diverse needs of researchers, institutions, academic societies and funders around the world. We listen to our customers and collaborate with them to achieve their research goals and we do so without compromising on the things they trust us for: quality, rigorous peer review and research integrity.

Enabling open access

As one of the fastest-growing open access publishers in the world, nearly all of Elsevier's 2,900 journals now enable open access publishing, with more than 190K Gold open access articles published in 2023 and more than 800 fully open access journals across our portfolio

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Partnering on solutions for our authors, librarians and institutions

We serve over 2,000 institutions worldwide with open access services through our transformative agreements.

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Preparing for a transformative agreement

Discover how library leaders develop agreements that support their institutions’ strategic goals and get a unique insight into the transformative agreement process.

Open Science 

Open access is just one element of the way we partner with you to drive open science. Together we can create a more inclusive, collaborative and transparent world of research.

Unlocking the potential of data

We're working to help researchers and institutions store, share, discover and effectively reuse data. Effective data sharing can improve the impact, validity, reproducibility, efficiency and transparency of scientific research.

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Enabling research integrity

We are committed to promoting the integrity of research through a range of activities and initiatives from free author training on publication ethics and providing transparency in author contributor roles

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Free access initiatives

From researchers and students using content published in our books and journals on a daily basis to a patient who needs critical information about their treatment, Elsevier has a range of access options to ensure that everyone can access the important information they need.

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