Agreement with Elsevier with APC-free publishing
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(July 30, 2024)
As part of its ongoing commitment to Open Access initiatives, Memorial University Libraries is pleased to announce a new three-year agreement with academic publisher Elsevier that allows Memorial University affiliated authors unlimited open access publishing in more than 1,800 Elsevier hybrid journals with no Article Processing Charge (APC). The agreement was reached via the Libraries membership in the national Library consortium, the Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN).
The term of the agreement is from January 1, 2024, to December 31, 2026.
For more information, the complete agreement is available on the CRKN website. Additional information about this agreement's open access publishing component and the eligible titles can be found on the Open Access Publishing page on the CRKN website.
For information about Open Access initiatives from Memorial University Libraries that support research, teaching and learning in a digital world, visit the Libraries’ open access webpage.
The new agreement by the numbers:
- 1,800+ journals available for open access publishing at no cost to authors
- 9,000+ estimated new open access articles published annually
- 2,300+ journals available for reading through participating CRKN member libraries
- 73 CRKN members leveraging our collective negotiating power to transform access to research
- Funded by CRKN member libraries, with $0 in costs for researchers at participating CRKN member institutions