Participating Journals
Core hybrid titles in the ScienceDirect Freedom Collection plus 170 specialty journals, as well as core fully OA (Gold) titles.
Excludes Cell Press, Lancet and Clinics titles, and some third-party publishers and societies.
What is the cost to the author?
Unlimited Corresponding Author Article APC Waivers for Core Hybrid Journals
- Estimated waiver number: 2024: 350; 2025-2027 TBC
Capped (limited) Corresponding Author Article APC Waivers for Fully Open Access Journals
- Estimated waiver number: 2024: 89; 2025: 106; 2026: 126; 2027: 149
- 10% APC Discount in Fully OA journals (if Cap is exceeded in any given year)
- Due to cap on Gold OA waivers, authors submitting to a fully open access Elsevier journal should be prepared to pay the APC at acceptance in the unlikely event that the number of fully OA journal articles published exceeds the limit in any given calendar year.
Publishing Workflow
Original acceptance date between 1 January 2024 and 31 December 2027.
Eligibility is confirmed via corresponding author affiliation & institutional email address and by determineing whether the journal you’re submitting to is hybrid OA or fully OA
Once Accepted the Corresponding Author will receive an email to finalize by choosing publishing options, co-author information, funding details, license, and rights.
After Submission the Corresponding author and coauthors will receive a copy of the summary. The article becomes OA on ScienceDirect with 24 hours, Elsevier will validate the request within 3 weeks. If the request is approved, the author will receive the full APC coverage. If the request is reject, Elsevier will send the invoice to our consortium, SCELC.
Who Can Publish?
Eligible authors are those with a participating institution email address. Use of the institutional email address throughout is highly recommended, and OrcID entry is encouraged.
Which Article types qualify?
Full-length article, Short communication, Short survey, Review article, Data, Case report, Micro articles, Original software publication, Video article, Protocols, Replication studies, Practice guidelines.