ABOUT THE AGREEMENT
SANLiC (South African National Library & Information Consortium) has negotiated an agreement with ScienceDirect (Elsevier) to support Open Access publishing.
The Read & Publish agreement allows full reading access to over 1,660 subscription-based journal titles in the ScienceDirect Freedom Collection.
Authors affiliated with SANLiC institutions may publish in any of ScienceDirect Hybrid Open Access journals at no charge to the author.
As from 2023 researchers are able to publish in ScienceDirect's Gold Open Access journals and eligible corresponding authors receive a APC discount on Elsevier's gold open access portfolio titles.
Herewith a list of Elsevier Hybrid & Gold OA titles: ScienceDirect Hybrid & Gold OA titles
To read more about SANLIC's Open Access agreement with ScienceDirect (Elsevier) here.
To be eligible:
Articles must have an original acceptance date between 1 January 2023 and 31 December 2025.
The following article types are part of this agreement:
Case reports
Data in Briefs
Full-length articles
Micro-articles
Original software publication
Practice guidelines
Protocols
Review articles
Replication studies
Short communications
Short surveys
Video articles