Read and Publish: Elsevier
BCU has a subscription to the Elsevier Jisc Transformative agreement for the period of April 2022- December 2025.
This Read and Publish Deal covers the access to read the contents and the access to publish your article Gold OA at no cost to you. See the Package List to find out if the journal is covered by the deal. Use the eligible checker to find out if you are eligible and follow the submission procedure below. Only hybrid journals are covered by this deal. Fully-Open-Access journals are not covered and the library will not be able to fund the Article Processing Charge; but the author can receive discount on the fully open access titles because of the existing deal.
Criteria and restrictions
Author eligibility
The corresponding author must be affiliated with Birmingham City University. This will be easiest for us to check if you submit using your BCU email address.
Article eligibility
Primary research and review articles that have an acceptance date between 2022 and 2024.
Journal eligibility
Only hybrid journals are covered by this deal. Please check the Elsevier:Jisc Collections:Elsevier Read and Publish Agreement 2022-2024 (Publishing list) before submitting that the journal you have chosen.
Elsevier publishing options
When you submit your article, you should see the following message:
Please indicate your Publishing Options
This is a hybrid journal. The journal publishes both subscription and OA articles. We will present your personalized Publishing Options based on the Affiliations and Funding details you have given us. Please note that at this stage in your submission, you are only indicating your preference. We will ask you to make a final choice after the journal has accepted your manuscript.
Open-Access journals
Fully-Open-Access journals are not covered and the library will not be able to fund the Article Processing Charge. These journals are listed in the Elsevier:Jisc Collections:Elsevier Read and Publish Agreement 2022-2024 (Fully Gold titles). If you wish to publish in one of these journals, you will need another source of funding to cover the APC, though you can receive a discount because of the deal.
In addition, some journals will have additional fees such as submission or editorial fees. These are not covered by this deal and will invoice the author directly, so please check before you submit.
How to access
Please double-check when you submit your article that it is a primary research article in an eligible journal (see above).
When you submit your article, if it is eligible, you should be given this publishing option:
These are the available publishing options.
If the journal accepts your article, you can change your mind about these options.
Note: editors and reviewers can only see your selection after acceptance.
Elsevier may also contact you after acceptance and ask you to fill in a ‘rights and access form’ with OA publication options. Again, you should see a statement like the example above saying that as an author affiliated with BCU, the UK JISC Elsevier Transitional agreement will cover the APC.
More information
Please see the Agreement between United Kingdom and Elsevier page about the deal.