Elsevier and the Robert Koch Institute Partner to Broaden Access

"Elsevier, the world-leading publisher of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, and the Robert Koch Institute announced they have entered into a two-year trial agreement enabling researchers at Robert Koch Institute to systematically post their manuscripts in the institutional repository. Elsevier and the Robert Koch Institute share the goal of broadening access to scientific information. The partnership serves this goal, and it makes the work of authors of the Robert Koch Institute and the contribution of the institute to research more visible and useful. Many scientists have a desire to post their manuscripts in their institutions' repositories, but feel reluctant to do so without the consent of their publisher. This type of agreement helps solve that issue....[Quoting Alicia Wise, Director of Universal Access at Elsevier:] "We hope to achieve similar agreements with other institutions in 2011." ..."