Chapman University, as a member of the Statewide California Electronic Library Consortium (SCELC), is part of a four-year read-and-publish agreement with Elsevier for 2024-2027. This agreement allows Chapman-affiliated authors to publish their articles Open Access in many Elsevier journals at no cost to themselves.
In other terms, this agreement covers the Article Processing Charges (APCs) for Chapman authors whose research articles are accepted for publication in applicable Elsevier journals during the three year agreement.
Please read on for information to determine if your research publication is eligible and to learn how to take advantage of this opportunity.
To be eligible, it is expected that articles must:
This agreement will provide:
Eligible articles are identified when the corresponding author selects their institutional affiliation (Chapman) during the submission process and confirms at acceptance.
After the article is accepted, they will be able to select the option to publish their article open access and will see that the cost is covered by the institutional agreement discount so that there is no cost to the author.
They can then choose between a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY), Attribution-Noncommercial (CC-BY-NC), or Attribution-Noncommercial-NoDerivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) license.
Authors submitting to a fully open access Elsevier journal should be prepared to pay the APC at acceptance in the unlikely event that the number of fully OA journal articles published exceeds the limit in any given calendar year.
The cap aligns with past publishing patterns plus a 25% buffer, so it is unlikely the cap will be exceeded unless there is an unexpected increase in fully OA journal publishing.
Funding is approved at article acceptance, not reserved at submission.
If the cap is exceeded, authors will be offered a 10% discount on the article processing charge (APC).