Access initiatives
Our access initiatives
Open access publishing: We have a number of open access publishing options which give researchers the freedom to choose to open their research beyond the academic community. These include open access journals, open access article options, open archives and manuscript posting.
Postdoc Free Access Programme: For scholars who recently received their PhD’s and currently do not have a research position, we are pleased to offer unlimited complimentary access to all our journals and books on ScienceDirect, for up to 6 months. This program allows those who qualify to have access to scientific journals and books in their field. For more details click here.
Public access initiatives: We support the need for the public to access science. Patient INFORM is a program in which publishers and health organizations provide patients and their caregivers access to some of the most up-to-date research about specific diseases. Through DeepDyve, Elsevier offers patients and their families an option to rent articles for a small transaction fee. Our ScienceDirect platform is also available to the public via walk-in user access from any participating library.
Elsevier has established agreements with funding bodies and has developed policies to help our authors comply with funding body archiving policies, including the policies put in place by the National Institutes of Health, The Wellcome Trust and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
Information philanthropy: We are a founding partner in Research4Life, a public/private partnership providing journal content to researchers in the developing world. More than 2000 Elsevier journals and 6,000 Elsevier e-books are available through Research4Life.
Licensing: Elsevier publishes approximately 2400 subscription journals and provides access to over 14 million researchers. Our online journal platform, ScienceDirect, hosts 10 million articles dating back to the 1820s and now has close to 600 million full text article downloads per year. With the digitisation of content and through adoption of new technology, we now invest in making our content accessible beyond the research community, on different devices, and through new channels such as social media. Elsevier has developed a number of licensing options, including the freedom and subject collections. These give customers flexibility in the way they purchase access.
Access for people with disabilities: We have been working since before 2007 to ensure people with disabilities are also able to access our content. In 2010 Elsevier won the first Publisher Lookup Accessibility award.
Transactional: Elsevier offers options to purchase single articles (Pay-per-view) and groups of articles (Article Choice). We also work in partnership with document delivery suppliers such as Ingenta and Subito.
