The following are examples of how Elsevier has engaged with our communities in testing new approaches to electronic publishing.

Author Posting

• Elsevier’s author posting policy allows authors to post their accepted manuscripts to their own websites and their institution’s repository.

Sponsored Articles

• A number of Elsevier journals allow articles to be sponsored where an article, accepted for publication, is made free to non-subscribers on ScienceDirect, after an article has been accepted and upon payment of a fee.

Funding Body Agreements and Policies

• 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.

Delayed Access

• Select journals provide content to some or all of a journal’s backfile. For example, articles in many of Elsevier’s  Cell Press journals are free to non-subscribers 12 months following final publication.

Individual Article Purchases on ScienceDirect

• All Elsevier articles can be individually accessed on ScienceDirect, without delay or a subscription, upon credit card payment.

Library Access

• Elsevier licenses have been written to explicitly allow members of the public to have unlimited walk-in access to our online databases and materials subscribed to by a library.

OncologySTAT

•  OncologySTAT, Elsevier’s professional information and education portal for oncologists and health professionals involved cancer treatment, provides non-subscriber access to news, recent peer-reviewed research articles, drug monograph and interaction information, and chemotherapy regimens.

Patient Access

• Elsevier has initiated a beta test program, called  Patient Research, to give patients and their families access, for a minimal processing fee, to medical articles that might help them better understand their health issues.

• We are a founding participant in  PatientINFORM, a partnership with the American Cancer Society, the American Heart Association and the American Diabetes Association, The National Organization for Rare Disorders (NORD), and the ALS Association (ALSA). PatientINFORM is designed to give patients and caregivers free online access to original medical studies from selected peer-reviewed medical journals published around the world.

Information philanthropy in the developing world

Elsevier is a founding publisher of three major UN-based initiatives that provide public and non-profit institutions in more than 100 least-developed nations access to 1,200 Elsevier journals at no cost.

•  HINARI: The Health InterNetwork Access to Research Initiative is a partnership with the World Health Organization to ensure that relevant health information and the technologies to deliver it are widely available and effectively used by health personnel, including professionals, policy makers, researchers and scientists.

•  AGORA: Access to Global Research on Agriculture is a partnership with the Food and Agricultural Organization to provide researchers, policy-makers, educators, and students in developing countries vital research that will ultimately help increase crop yields and food security.

•  OARE: Online Access to Research in the Environment is a partnership with the United Nations Environment Program to expand the capacity of developing world organizations to improve the quality and effectiveness of environmental research, education and training in low-income countries.

Preservation for future generations

• Elsevier reached a groundbreaking agreement in electronic archiving with the  National Library of the Netherlands (Koninklijke Bibliotheek) making it the first, official, independent, digital archive of all Elsevier journals, and ensuring access for future generations.

• Elsevier has signed a second archival agreement with  Portico, a non-profit archiving agency, to ensure that the over 2,100 current and formerly published journals on Elsevier’s ScienceDirect service are preserved in a permanent archive for posterity.

• We guarantee our librarian customers the right to archive their electronic holdings in the same manner as physical holdings (books and journals), ensuring that libraries and their users have permanent access to any subscribed electronic Elsevier publications.