Elsevier signs first major open access deal with a US university
Carnegie Mellon faculty and students will have access to Elsevier’s 3500 academic journals, and can publish their work open access at no extra charge
Carnegie Mellon University in Pennsylvania has reached a deal with Dutch publishing giant Elsevier that makes the university the first in the US whose researchers will pay one flat fee to access the paywalled content of Elsevier’s academic journals, and also publish open-access articles in Elsevier journals. The four-year pilot programme will give faculty and students at the university access to 3500 journal titles.