Author update
Adelphi University offers support to authors publishing open access with Elsevier
We are pleased to share the news that Adelphi University and Elsevier have reached an agreement to increase open access publishing while continuing to enable our researchers to read Elsevier's extensive portfolio of journals.
Through this agreement, the university will support Adelphi corresponding authors with publishing their research in eligible gold open access journals without having to pay an article processing charge (APC).
During the post-acceptance author journey, Adelphi University authors will automatically receive an APC waiver when publishing in eligible fully open access titles with an APC up to $2000.
Once accepted for publication, all open access articles will be published and made freely available on ScienceDirect, the world’s largest publishing platform.
For more details and step-by-step instructions, see the Elsevier Publishing Options for Adelphi Authors page of this guide.
What are open access publishing agreements?
Open access publishing necessitates new business models and contracts that will fund the entire process in ways that are sustainable for researchers, publishers, and the universities which mediate between them. College and university libraries are taking an active role in negotiating new kinds of contracts with publishers that address the fees charged to faculty members who want to publish their works openly. These open access publishing agreements come in many forms and this page provides information and resources on the major ones.
Transformative agreement news
Transformative agreements are a new kind of contract between universities and publishers which incorporate OA publishing costs in addition to traditional subscription fees. Since this enables faculty to read content from the publisher as well as publish with them for no additional cost, transformative agreements are also known as "read and publish" agreements. They represent one of the most successful funding models designed to replace the one wherein individual authors must pay a fee to publish their work OA in a journal, known as an Article Processing Charge or APC.
- LIBER Posts “Four Urgent Recommendations for Open Access Negotiations with Publishers” (April 2022)LIBER’s Urgent Recommendations for Open Access Negotiations with Publishers outline four priorities to bolster and integrate library Open Access strategies. They are: 100% open access under fair conditions, or no agreement;
pricing of open access publishing services must be fair and transparent; define strategies to support a diversity of open publishing venues; engage stakeholders in the process of transition.
Publisher information on transformative agreements
- OA Agreements at Springer Nature"Having early and rapid access to research findings is fundamental to the advancement of science and discovery. Many funders and institutions now cover OA publishing costs for affiliated researchers, as part of an OA agreement with Springer Nature."
- Wiley’s Transitional Agreements: A SummaryWiley is committed to an open access (OA) future and is supporting the transition to OA in a number of ways. One such way is through our negotiation of country-level agreements combining access (reading) and publishing on large scales.
- Transformative agreements at ElsevierA list of all the institutions, consortia, and countries with which Elsevier has signed transformative agreements along with links to more information.
