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In recent years there has been a steady increase of research published in open access (OA) journals and platforms globally. This has been led by institutions keen to drive open access forward. These initiatives continue to gain momentum with the introduction of open access policies by major funding bodies, governments and public institutions requiring research they fund be published open access. Open access โ the publishing of scholarly literature that is free for anyone to read and share โ offers benefits for research and society, so supporting it is an important element of how Elsevier is empowering open science.โฏ
Open access has evolved over the past two decades to offer multiple paths for researchers to publish their work, but they may not be aware of the options or how open access helps them meet funders requirements. This is where academic librarians are well-positioned to lend expertise and guidance in navigating the open access landscape to support their researchers and institutions.โฏโฏย ย
This article presents some essentials for understanding the benefits that open access publishing offers as well as the current publishing models.
The benefits of open access publishingโฏย
Authors, institutions, and the general public can benefit from open access publishing.โฏย
Accessible for anyone. Research published open access can be read by anyone without needing to pay a subscription, reaching the greatest number of readers, both within and outside academic circles. This exposure supports a more timely uptake of important results in both practice and policy making, and more researchers can build on the findings. Open access research outside of oneโs field is easier to discover, so it also enables collaboration across disciplines and geographic regions.โฏย
Generates higher visibility. Research articles published open access usually have more engagement from public sites and media sources. This brings attention to an institutionโs programs and can help researchers advance their careers.โฏ
Complies with funding requirements. Recognizing the benefits of open access and open science, many government and institutional funders now mandate open access publishing of the research they fund.โฏโฏย

Defining open access modelsโฏย ย
Open access models represent a combination of three aspects necessary to publishing quality research:โฏโฏย
How publishing services can be adequately fundedโฏโฏย
How and when readers can access articles and for how longโฏโฏย
How published articles can be further distributed or usedโฏย
Elsevier provides both the gold open access model and green open access route, derived from the subscription model, to enable authors to make their manuscripts available open access.ย ย
Gold open access: Articles published gold OA are immediately, permanently, and freely accessible for anyone to read and share. Libraries and other journal readers do not pay a subscription fee to access these articles. Publishing costs are covered by authors (or research funders on their behalf) with an article publishing charge (an APC โ see more about this below).โฏThis is also described as โpay-to-publish.โย ย ย
With gold OA, authors retain the copyright on their article, and they are able to apply a choice of creative commons end user licenses, which offer flexible options for sharing and reuse. Nearly all of Elsevierโs 2,700 journals offer a gold OA choice for authors.โฏย
Green open access: Also known as self-archiving, green OA is an option where authors can upload a copy of their research article published under the subscription model to an institutional or other repository, which makes it available for anyone to read for free.โฏย
These research articles are subject to an embargo period โ this means authors may have to wait a specified number of months before uploading the manuscript to a repository. The length of the embargo period depends on the journal.ย
When publishing under the subscription model and using the green OA route, copyright for the article is usually held by the publisher. However, authors have rights that support certain kinds of sharing to help the research reach as broad an audience as possible. This can include free access to the journal article for the first 50 days following publication, an option for authors publishing in Elsevier journals, plus free access to the article via a range of initiatives. All of Elsevierโs journals support self-archiving/green OA, so authors publishing in subscription journals can meet open access funding requirements.โฏย
Diamond open access: Journals and platforms using the diamond OA model are often led by institutions or academic communities, sometimes at a national or regional level, using funding and subsidies from various sources to cover publishing costs. There are several diamond OA publishers hosted on Elsevierโs Digital Commons platform.โฏย
Other models: While the above models represent the majority today, you may come across others such as subscribe to open, membership models, and more. Finding and developing good options is an ongoing process for everyone working to improve open science.โฏย
Other terms for understanding the open access landscapeโฏย
Article Publishing Charge (APC): Publishing is more than just posting online. To support the services that go into publishing academic research, publishers cover these costs with APC fees, which vary per journal. These fees replace the need for subscriptions but maintain the same journal quality. APCs cover many activities that ensure the integrity of research, provide for discovery and readability, and maintain the continuity of the scientific record. โฏย
APCs are often covered by a sponsoring institution or research funder on the authorโs behalf. They are also reduced for authors working in institutions or countries that have signed open access agreements (see more on these below). โฏย
Elsevier also waives or reduces APCs for authors or institutions from low- or middle-income countries.โฏโฏย

Copyright and sharing: Articles published open access are freely available for anyone to read, download, copy and distribute, however re-use may have certain protections. Creative Commons, an international non-profit, has defined several licensing frameworks that authors and publishers can apply to manage certain rights. Two licenses common to open access are โCC BY-NC-NDโ and โCC BY,โ with the following permissions:โฏย
CC BY 4.0 | CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 | |
Read, print and downloadโฏย | โฏย Yes | Yes |
Redistribute or republish the article (e.g. display in a repository)โฏย | Yes | Yes |
Sell or re-use for commercial purposesโฏย | โฏย Yes | โฏย No |
Translate the articleโฏย | โฏย Yes | For private use only and not for distribution |
Download for text and data mining purposesโฏย | โฏย Yes | โฏย Yes |
Reuse portions or extracts from the article in other worksโฏย | Yes | Yes |
Embargo period: The period of time after an article is published in a subscription journal before it can be accessed for free on an institutional or funderโs repository.โฏย
Hybrid journal: A journal that enables authors to publish under either the subscription or the gold OA models. At Elsevier, the option is open for anyone to publish gold OA in almost all of our hybrid journals.ย ย
The pricing of subscription journals is based only on the readership of articles not published open access. Elsevier has a strict system in place to differentiate how each articleโs publishing costs are paid in order to avoid the possibility of โdouble-dippingโ.โฏย
Preprints have received a lot of attention since the pandemic as a way to gain early access to research results, especially important where public health is concerned.โฏโฏย
ย A preprint is an authorโs write-up and analysis of research results before it has been peer-reviewed or accepted for scholarly publication. These can be uploaded to โpreprint serversโ prior to being submitted for publication.ย ย
Repositories are usually institutional (hosted by the authorโs university or funding body, for example) or may focus on specific disciplines (such as arXiv, PubMed Central, or CERN). Although accessible to anyone, they tend to be read by the community of fellow researchers in the authorโs discipline or related fields. In some cases, early feedback on the findings shown in a preprint has helped to add value to its subsequent publication.โฏโฏย
SSRN (Social Science Research Network) is a preprint server offered by Elsevier that provides early access to research across 70 disciplines in both the sciences and humanities.โฏย
ย Open access agreements: Publishers work together with universities, consortia or government agencies to structure contracts to support both authorsโ freedom to choose how they want to publish and institutions aiming to support open access. This further enables them to comply with open access funding policies. There are varied ways to support open access under these agreements, and varied terms (read and publish, publish and read, transformative, transformational, transitional, etc.) can be used to describe them. Though there is no universally accepted definition of these terms, most of these agreement types would typically include both a reading and a publishing element and aim to either support or boost open access uptake, depending on each institutionโs goals.ย ย
Elsevier has signed such agreements with many institutions, countries and consortia, supporting researchers at over 2,000 institutions to publish open access worldwide. Each agreement is tailored to the unique needs of the institution, and are understood as โtest-and-learnโ pilots that can evolve as we learn more about how well they support our customers' needs.โฏ
To discover more about how Elsevier supports open access visit the Open Access hub.
Global community resources for librarians to support researchers with open accessโฏย
In addition to Elsevierโs own resources for accessing and publishing open access research, below are some resources for further exploring open access opportunities.โฏย
ROARMAP โ searchable international registry of open access mandates adopted by universities, research institutions and research fundersโฏย
DOAJ โ Directory of Open Access Journals, indexing #โฏย
DOAB โ Directory of Open Access Books, a community-driven discovery service that indexes and provides access to scholarly, peer-reviewed open access books and helps users to find trusted open access book publishersโฏย โฏย
How can I share it provides an easy way to support responsibly sharing published research with a quick DOI lookup.โฏย
Elsevierโs resources for librarians and researchersโฏโฏย
SSRN โ preprint repository with over 70 disciplines in the humanities and sciencesโฏย
Digital Commons โ platform for institutional repositories and diamond OA journalsโฏโฏย
Scopus โ discover over 11 million articles from global publishers by filtering your search on the open access tagโฏย
ScienceDirect โ access over 1.4 million full-text open access research articles published in Elsevier journals.โฏย
Elsevier has 140 journals that also offer an open archive, which provides readers free access to published articles after 12 months.โฏย
Elsevierโs Open Access hub provides resources for understanding agreements, publishing options and policies, as well as links to our other free access initiatives.โฏ