Publications in Cadmus
Transformative Agreement with Elsevier
Elsevier: 2023-2027
Publish your article Open Access for free in 2,495 journals
- Duration of the agreement: 1 January 2023 - 31 December 2027 (5 years)
- Type of agreement: Read and Publish Agreement. Reading access and unlimited Open Access publishing for free (APC waived) for EUI members to Elsevier Hybrid journals.
- Coverage: Hybrid titles:
- Science Direct Freedom Collection (1,866 titles): unlimited vouchers for 2025
- Four Subject Collections (629 titles):
- Business, Management and Accounting
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance
- Environmental Science, and
- Social Sciences
- The Open Access option and fee waiver is done after peer-review and after acceptance of the article.
More details on the Elsevier read and publish agreement for Italy - CRUI
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Find a participating journal in this agreement by title or by subject area here: Elsevier journal finder.
To be eligible, articles must:
- Have a corresponding author affiliated with the European University Institute (EUI).
- Be research articles – eligible article types include case reports, full-length articles, review articles and short communications (from 2025).
- Be accepted for publication in an Elsevier journal covered by the agreement.
- Be accepted for publication from 1 January 2023 - 31 December 2027.
What license options apply?
With this agreement, authors have a choice between a commercial (CC BY) or non-commercial (CC BY-NC-ND or CC BY-NC) license. The license choice is dependent on the journal selected.
How to publish in Open Access under the agreement:
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Step 1 – Once the journal accepts your article, you will receive an email containing a link to the “post acceptance author journey”.
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Step 2 – You will be asked to review your affiliation and funder details. Based on this information, you will see personalised publishing options including the option to publish under the agreement.
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Step 3 – You will confirm your publishing choices and complete the post acceptance journey.
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Step 4 – Your institution will validate your eligibility for the agreement
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Step 5 – You and your co-authors will receive an email to confirm that the APC will be covered by the agreement. Please note that the number of APCs included under the agreement is fixed and will be allocated based on date of acceptance.
During the submission process, the system will present you with personalised publishing options including any agreement or offer that you may be eligible for. You can indicate your publishing choice during submission, but you are not required to finalize your choice until after acceptance.
VIDEO GUIDE
This video guides you through the author workflow for Read and Publish agreements with Elsevier.
If you have published an article in an Elsevier journal using the subscription model, and you become eligible to convert the article to Open Access, the publisher or the EUI Library Open Science office will contact you. To do the process, follow the steps below:
- Click on the activation link provided to you in the email. This takes you to the post-acceptance author journey platform.
- Click on the 'Make changes and re-submit' link under the Rights and Access section (example screenshot below)
- Add your affiliation and research funder details.
- In the Elsevier publishing options page (step 4), where you see the CRUI agreement, change your selection from Subscription to Open Access.
- Choose the Creative Commons license and your copyrights.
- Once you get to the confirmation page (step 9), click on the 'Finish' button to complete the journey.
If you have any questions, please contact oasupport@elsevier.com or visit Elsevier information page.
You can also contact the EUI Open Science Office at cadmus@eui.eu