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Elsevier Open Publishing Program

Update May 6, 2025: the program was launched with a pool of 1084 articles for 2025. According to the new contract, eligible for the program are articles accepted for publication in the current year after the contract was signed, and the date the article was sent to the journal is not important. List of journals that are included in Elsevier’s open access publishing program in 2025.

The program is designed for correspondence authors affiliated with institutions that are covered by Elsevier’s national license and have set up an administrative account in the Elsevier Open Access Platform (EOAP) system to verify the affiliation of their authors. It is required that the correspondence author include this affiliation on the title page of the article, and it can be one of the correspondence author’s multiple affiliations listed in any order.

Detailed rules of the program operation are available on the website of the Virtual Science Library:

https://wbn.icm.edu.pl/publikowanie-otwarte/#elsevier_oa

  • Journals and type of articles covered by the open publishing program

    Program in 2025 includes 1124 hybrid journals, see list (recommended browser: Microsoft Edge):

    https://vls.icm.edu.pl/zasady/2025/Elsevier/czasopisma_elsevier2025_oa.xlsx

    The program includes the following article types: Case Reports, Data, Full Length Articles, Micro Articles, Software, Reviews, Replication Study, Short Communications, Short Surveys, Videos, Practice Guidelines i Protocols, see description of types.

  • Fees covered by the program

    The only fee covered by the program is the Article Processing Charge (APC). Authors publishing in program are exempt from the APC charge, which is presented by Elsevier in the Rigts and Access form as a 100% discount. Catalog APC prices (without discount) are available on the publisher’s website, but this price list only provides information for the basic Full Length Article type, and does not take into account additional discounts to APCs that may be applied by editors. Binding APC price information for an article before and after the discount from the program is visible to the author as soon as the article is accepted for publication in the Rights and Access form.

    Some journals charge additional fees, such as Page Charges, Manuscript Acceptance Fee (Submission Fee), or for additional services that may be requested by the author (prints, printed color drawings, etc.). These fees are not indicated on the Rights and Access form, where only the APC fee is indicated. Additional charges are billed between the journal and the author on a separate invoice. The Page Charges fee applies regardless of the open-access or subscription model of publication and, according to the March 2021 information, is applied by more than a dozen journals: list, but the author should check the current policy on the website of the respective journal.

  • Article submission for the program

    You can apply to the program after your article has been accepted for publication in an Elsevier journal by filling out an online Rights and Access form, to which you receive a link by email from the publisher. The form should indicate the institution, which should match the affiliation or one of the affiliations assigned to the corresponding author on the title page of the article. If the article is eligible for the program and the pool of this program is not exhausted at the time of filling out the form, the form will display the option to waive the APC fee. See the presentation of the form for program:

    https://vls.icm.edu.pl/zasady/2019/Elsevier/Elsevier_Author_Journey_Poland_programA.pdf

    Note: presentation is intended only for institutions eligible for Elsevier’s open publishing program and can be downloaded only from the IP numbers of SGGW or from IPs of other academic institutions registered in the Virtual Library of Science (WBN).

    See the publisher’s website for supporting materials:

    How do I complete the Rights and Access form?

    If you choose the open publication option, you have to also select the CC BY or CC BY-NC-ND license type later in the form, as well as CC BY-NC in some journals. This is the author’s choice, but it should be noted that the Creative Commons Attribution CC BY license is recommended by Plan S, to which NCN, among others, is a signatory.

    Additional information on the NCN’s Open Access Policy:

    https://www.ncn.gov.pl/finansowanie-nauki/otwarta-nauka

    The Corresponding Author is not required to subscribe to program and may choose the traditional free (no APC) publication of an article (the ‘subscription’ option, which only applies to hybrid articles). Failure to use open access by the author will not result in any limitation of access to the program in the future.

  • Verification of articles submitted to the program

    After the author selects the option of open publication in the program, the article will be sent for verification, after which the author will receive another email with information about the result of verification.