The Austrian Academic Library Consortium and Elsevier Agree to Pilot for Reading and Open Access Publishing

AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS / ACCESSWIRE / March 18, 2021 / Elsevier, a global leader in research publishing and information analytics, and the Kooperation E-Medien Österreich (KEMÖ) / The Austrian Academic Library Consortium, including the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), have agreed on a three-year pilot to support continued reading and open access (OA) publishing for Austrian researchers. This pilot allows OA publishing in Elsevier's hybrid journals together with an additional one-year agreement that will support Austrian researchers to publish in fully gold open access journals. This agreement complements Elsevier's transformative and pilot agreements across many European countries and represents libraries, the funder and the publisher coming together to support open access.