Elsevier Open Access Publishing: Elsevier OA - Introduction

OhioLINK has negotiated an upgraded agreement that offers open access publishing benefits with Elsevier. Starting in January 2024 and continuing through the end of 2027, authors at participating OhioLINK member institutions now have the ability to publish open access (OA) journal articles in most of Elsevier’s hybrid journals at no additional cost to either the author or the institution.  Exceptions include: Cell Press and Lancet journals.  More details in this guide.

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Information for Authors

What is OhioLINK's Elsevier open access publishing deal?

OhioLINK has negotiated an upgraded agreement that offers open access publishing benefits. Starting in January 2024 and continuing through the end of 2027, authors at participating OhioLINK member institutions now have the ability to publish open access (OA) journal articles in most of Elsevier’s hybrid journals at no additional cost to either the author or the institution.  This open access publishing benefit is subject to availability. With this agreement, there is a maximum number of articles that may be published open access annually across all OhioLINK institutions.

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Eligible article types

Full-length articles, micro-articles, review articles, case reports, data in brief, original software publications, practice guidelines, protocols, replication studies, short communication, short survey, and video articles are eligible for open access publishing in any of the eligible hybrid journals under this agreement.  

Eligible journals

You can view the initial list of eligible journals for 2024 and for the most up-to-date information, you can search for eligible journals using Elsevier's journal finder tool for the OhioLINK agreement.

Eligible authors and institutions

In order to be eligible to publish open access at no cost in an Elsevier journal under this deal, the corresponding author of the article (see below for definition) must be affiliated with an institution that subscribes to OhioLINK’s Electronic Journal Center (EJC), a full text searchable database of electronic journal articles from top scholarly publishers. You can find a list of eligible institutions at Elsevier's information page about the OhioLINK agreement.

There is a maximum number of articles across all OhioLINK institutions that may be published as open access each year under this agreement. Should this limit be reached, authors will no longer see the option to request their article be published as open access at no charge under the agreement. 

The corresponding author is the author who submits the article to Elsevier and stays in contact with Elsevier in the end-to-end publishing process. The corresponding author also is responsible for making publishing choices on behalf of the author group. Every article has one corresponding author, which must be affiliated with an OhioLINK institution that participates in the Electronic Journal Center (EJC). Elsevier asks authors to identify their institution affiliation as part of the publishing process. Use of an institutional email address is encouraged to ensure the corresponding author’s eligibility can be accurately determined.

Quick Eligibility Checklist for no-charge APC coverage

• Eligible publication types:  full length articles, review articles and more (see details at left)
• Eligible journals:  approximately 1860 titles (=hybrid OA journals out of approx. 2740 OA journals overall) (search for journals here or see quick list) (tip: filter by Business Model "hybrid")
• Eligible authors:  the corresponding author of the article must be affiliated with an institution that subscribes to OhioLINK’s Electronic Journal Center (EJC) 
• Dates of eligibility:  To publish an article as open access in an Elsevier journal without paying any Article Publication Charge (APC), the article must be accepted for publication between January 2024 and December 2027 and the APC coverage must be available under the agreement. 
• Ineligible journal and publication types:  articles submitted to fully OA journals.  Cell Press and Lancet journals.
• Other restrictions:  When yearly cohort limit is reached, no-charge article publishing ends for the remainder of that year.  Authors can then consider a 10% discount on APC cost for publication in Elsevier hybrid OA journals

NOTE:  The OhioLINK Elsevier OA publishing deal does not include the Lancet or Cell Press journals.  Read more details here.

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