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Collection updates
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Collection updates

Source: https://subjectguides.library.unsw.edu.au/collectionupdates/sciencedirect Parent: https://subjectguides.library.unsw.edu.au/collectionupdates/transformativeagreements

ScienceDirect (Elsevier) Open Access Publishing Agreement

Agreement duration:The UNSW agreement is from 1 January 2026 - 31 December 2029.

Acceptance date: Eligible articles that have an acceptance date during the term of this agreement 1 January 2026 - 31 December 2029.

Summary: ScienceDirect journals published by Elsevier, one of the world’s leading scientific publisher and data analytics company. ScienceDirect journals are focussed on the medical, scientific and technical disciplines. This agreement allows UNSW affiliated authors to publish openly across hybrid journals. The agreement also allows uncapped publishing for hybrid journals. 

Titles included: Check the Elsevier ScienceDirect Hybrid Title List (dynamic and may change throughout the year). Core hybrid journals are included (including some hybrid titles from Cell Press and The Lancet). \ The following hybrid titles from Cell Press and The Lancet are included:

If you cannot find a journal title then it is not included in the OA publishing agreement.

Title restrictions:Fully open access (gold) journals are excluded from the agreement and author-facing APCs apply. Fully open Lancet collection titles and Cell Press titles are excluded from the agreement and author-facing APCs apply. A 15% discount on author facing APCs may be available. Some journal titles from The Lancet collection and Cell Press collections are excluded from the 15% discount on APCs.

The following titles have flipped from hybrid to fully open access (gold) in 2026 and are excluded:

For further support, please contact the Elsevier support team directly through the Publishing Open Access | Journal Article Support Centre. Authors may also email oasupport@elsevier.com for questions relating to your submission under this agreement.

Information for authors: UNSW corresponding authors must use their UNSW institutional email address (name@unsw.edu.au) to be eligible under this agreement. This agreement allows researchers to publish open access under a CC BY or CC BY-NC-ND licence. There may be additional page charges that remain payable by the corresponding author. There is a 15% discount on core hybrid or gold APCs for articles outside of this agreement. There is nothing additional for the corresponding author to do. The 15% discount will appear at the acceptance stage of the author journey and will be clearly shown on the invoice to the author. For journal response times between submission and acceptance you should check the specific journal guidelines for accurate information.

Eligible article types:Research articles (full length), review articles, case reports, practice guidelines and replication studies. Other article types such as brief articles and short communications are excluded.

Sharing via repositories: UNSW corresponding authors can comply with the Open Access policy by retaining the rights to the Author Accepted Manuscript and depositing a copy into UNSWorks (via ROS) using a CC BY licence.

How to submit your article for open access publishing:

  1. The UNSW corresponding author should follow the usual article submission process via the journal's homepage.
  2. On acceptance of the article, the publisher will ask the corresponding author to complete a form (publishing agreement).
  3. On acceptance of the manuscript, the payment system will allow UNSW corresponding authors to choose UNSW as their institution and remove the open access fee. Articles from authors at participating institutions will be published under a CC BY or CC BY-NC-ND licence.
  4. To comply with the Open Access policy the UNSW corresponding author will need to retain the rights to either the Published Version of Record or Author Accepted Manuscript, and deposit into UNSWorks using a CC BY licence.

Corresponding authors should not use personal email addresses (e.g. Hotmail, Gmail) or email addresses affiliated with other organisations, research centres or institutes. Otherwise they may be ineligible under the terms of this agreement.

**For any queries about this open access publishing agreement please use this short form.****