Elsevier-DEAL

Term of contract

01.01.2024 - 31.12.2028

 

 Benefits for members of the University of Duisburg-Essen

  • The University Duisburg-Essen has concluded a Read & Publish agreement with the publisher Elsevier as part of the DEAL agreement
  • The agreement covers both hybrid journals and Gold Open Access journals
  • Author fees (APCs) of submitting corresponding authors from UDE are financed and paid centrally from UDE. Invoices are processed by the University Library

 

Requirements 

  • You are a member of the UDE and responsible for submitting the article as corresponding author
  • UDE students can apply for article funding if a member of the supervising faculty supports or approves the publication of the paper. In these cases, funding is only granted upon application and is decided on a case-by-case basis
  • The University of Duisburg-Essen or the University Hospital must be specified as the first affiliation
  • Eligible article types:
    • Full Length Articles, Review Articles, Case Reports, Data in Brief, Microarticle, Original Software Publication, Protocol, Replication Study, Short Communication, Short Survey, Video Article

 

 Content

  • Approx. 2,500 journals, incl. the Cell Press and The Lancet brands
  • List of journals (included and not included)
  • Some journals from expert associations are not covered by the contract 

 

Information about the author workflow

 

CC licences

  • The DEAL Konsortium recommends the use of the Creative Commons licence CC BY, which provides the greatest possibility of reuse for your work. The less restrictive Creative Commons licences CC BY or CC BY-SA are also recommended in the UDE Open Access Policy
  • Further information on the CC licenses can be found here

 

Who can help?

The Open Access team will be pleased to advise you on all aspects of Open Access:
openaccess.ub@uni-due.de