Crue Spanish Universities-CSIC Alliance and Elsevier agree four-year pilot for reading and open access publishing

Elsevier, [...], the Conference of Rectors of Spanish Universities (Crue Universidades Españolas) and the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) have agreed on a new four-year pilot to support continued reading and open access (OA) publishing for universities and CSIC’s researchers in Elsevier’s hybrid journals. It is one of the largest transformative agreements Elsevier has reached and compliments the pilot agreements already in place across many European countries.

Elsevier will support the Crue-CSIC’s goals by enabling their researchers to publish OA across a broad range of Elsevier journals, making their latest research freely available at the point of publication. This agreement will support 59 participating Spanish institutions and will apply to articles accepted from January 1, 2021 through to the end of 2024.