Agreement Period
1 Jan 2020 – 31 Dec 2025
Agreement Details
Continued read-access to the Elsevier’s Freedom Collection of journals
Allows corresponding authors from member institutions to publish articles open access in over two thousand Elsevier journals without publication charges. The agreement will allow an estimated 71% of articles by eligible authors in the relevant Elsevier journals to be open access immediately on publication for each year of the agreement.
Articles must be accepted for publication between 01.01.2020 and 31.12.2025.
All Irish authors with Elsevier will continue to be able to post copies of their articles to their institutions open access institutional repositories. Repositories may also use ScienceDirect APIs to automate downloads of structured metadata (including abstracts) for articles their authors published with Elsevier.
Eligible Authors
Corresponding authors from member institutions
Further Information
Elsevier Science Direct (IREL)
Details of agreement on ESAC Registry of Transformative Agreements