Gold open access
What is it?
It is when published research is free for everyone to read and use. Here is how it works:
Published articles are:
- Peer reviewed
- Immediately and permanently free for everyone to read and download
- Able to be reused in a number of different ways as defined by the user license
- Permanently preserved in our digital archives
- Have CrossMark® which links copies of the article to the final version of record to maintain the publication record
What does it cost?
All gold open access articles are free for everyone to read. We can provide gold open access services because the article publishing charge (APC) that authors, their institutions or funding bodies pay, covers all expenses needed to support the publication process. Our APCs range from $500-$5000 USD
and specific prices can be found on the individual journal’s homepages.
Where can you publish?
- Open access journals: Do not have any subscribers and publish all their articles gold open access. See a list of open access journals published by Elsevier
- Hybrid journals: Support open access and are two journals in one: a subscription journal and an open access journal. After acceptance authors can choose how they wish to publish and broadcast their research.
- Subsidized journals: Published research is free to read and the APC is subsidized by an organization or society which means authors do not need to directly pay.
Complying with policies
We are also able to help researchers in complying with the policies of their funders and institutions. We have established a number of agreements with organizations such as the Wellcome Trust, Research Councils UK, which help outline the compliant open access options available to researchers. See our list of funding body agreements.
Licenses
Everyone is able to download, copy and share gold open access articles. We provide authors with a choice of publishing under either the Creative Commons licenses CC-BY or the Creative Commons CC-BY-NC-ND user license. These licenses will help maximize the impact of your article, getting the most spread
and use out of it. Click here for the details.