Widening Access

Growth in global online usage
Through ScienceDirect, Elsevier content is now available back to volume 1, issue 1. Elsevier is committed to supporting the advancement of linguistics globally, and full-text article usage has grown exponentially year on year since the launch of ScienceDirect in 1999. 

This growth has been driven by improvements in ScienceDirect functionality and a range of flexible access solutions which mean that more than 11 million scientists worldwide now have access to online content.

Comprehensive free access for developing nations
Elsevier opens its content to researchers in developing countries, bringing them closer to their peers and their individual research communities through a range of initiatives.

Elsevier is one of the founding publishers of HINARI (Health InterNetwork Access to Research Initiative), a UN-based initiative which provides online access to Elsevier journals without charge or at very low cost for public institutions in developing countries. Elsevier is proud to make all of its social science journals accessible through Hinari.

Elsevier also offers all its journals free to developing countries via AGORA (Access to Global Online Research and Agriculture) and OARE (Online access to Research in the Environment). 

The Innovative Libraries in Developing Countries (ILDC) Program
This program awards grants to library programs in the developing world for innovative systems and services that improve access to STM information. Programs which will be considered include enhancing libraries’ capacity in the fields of science, technology and medicine - through library training and education; library infrastructure, technology or information services; and digitization and preservation of information. The foundation especially encourages proposals that support partnerships between libraries in the developing countries and institutions in developed countries. In 2006, grants were awarded to non-profit organizations in China, India and Southeast Asia.

Affordable personal subscriptions
Individuals can subscribe to Elsevier language and linguistics journals at a fraction of the institutional subscription rate. 

Further member discount subscription rates are all available to members of the following societies:

• The Academy of Aphasia
• Alliance for Computers and Writing
• American Association for Applied Linguistics
• American Psychological Association
• Association for Psychological Science
• American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
• British Association for Applied Linguistics
• British Association for Lecturers in English for Academic Purposes
• Cognitive Neuroscience Society
• Conference on College Composition and Communication
• International Association of Logopedics and Phoniatrics
• International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language
• International Communication Association
• International Neuropsychological Society
• International Phonetics Association
• The Psychonomic Society
• International Pragmatics Association
• International Speech Communication Association
• Japan Association of Language Teaching
• Linguistic Society of America
• Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages 

Flexible access options
Elsevier provides a range of access options to allow you the freedom to choose how you want to access content. In addition to the comprehensive online collections available to academic institutions, Elsevier has developed offerings tailored to meet a variety of specialized customer requirements. See the chart below or visit: www.info.sciencedirect.com for more information about online access options.

Elsevier is now also making selected special issues available for a reduced single purchase price of $59.95 US; to view the available special issues visit: https://enduser.elsevier.com. 

Lowering the average cost per downloaded article 
Today, our customers’ average cost per journal article downloaded is a quarter of what it was 5 years ago while users enjoy many more features and functionalities. 

The average cost per article downloaded on ScienceDirect has plunged from $10.72 in 2000 to $2.48 in 2005.