Access Policies

Elsevier have developed several policies to assist our customers to understand our position on key issues within our Universal Access programme. These are:

  Accessibility Policy

Elsevier consistently and proactively endeavors to make our products fully accessible to all users, regardless of physical abilities. That commitment reflects the growing customer need for accessibility of our books and online products, and our focus on customers, innovation and partnership with the science and health communities we serve. 

  Article Posting Policy 

Elsevier wants to ensure a proper balance between the scholarly rights which authors retain (or are granted/transferred back in some cases) and the rights granted to Elsevier that are necessary to support our mix of business models.  We routinely analyze and modify our policies to ensure we are responding to authors’ needs and concerns, and the concerns generally of the research and scholarly communities.

  Content Mining Policy

Content Mining concerns the automatic processing of large collections of various forms of data and information to identify, organise and perform analysis in order to determine possible links within the content that may not be obvious on initial inspection. Elsevier has developed this policy to assist customers who wish to mine our content.

  Funding Body Policies

Elsevier has engaged with several funding organisations around the world and have developed agreements and policies to support the open access needs of these organisations.

For any questions concerning these policies, please contact universalaccess@elsevier.com