| Publisher |
Elsevier |
| Agreement ID | els2022pl |
| Agreement labeling | Elsevier ScienceDirect |
| Has the agreement been disclosed and published? | No |
| Agreement period | 01/01/2022 – 12/31/2024 |
| Consortia / Institution | Consortium of all Polish academic institutions (“national license”) |
| Country | Poland |
| SIZE
Approximate range of annual corresponding author publications |
5000 |
| Comments on size/article output | Data from all types of journals |
| COSTS
How do the costs of the agreement relate to previous subscription-only agreements with the publisher? |
Cost decrease |
| Comments on cost development | Cost decrease due to reduction of funding and reduction of the licensed content |
| FINANCIAL SHIFT
Transformative agreements vary by their transformative mechanisms, meaning the way in which financing is shifted from the subscription side to open access publishing. What are the characteristics of this agreement to this regard?
|
Subscriptions partly converted to OA publishing fees |
| RISK SHARING
How do entitlements for open access publishing correlate to the anticipated article output? Which mechanisms for risk sharing have been agreed in cases of exceeding or not reaching the number of OA publishing entitlements? |
Agreement covers fixed number of articles per year which is less then anticipated total article output |
| OA COVERAGE
Are all journals relevant to your affiliated authors (in which you expect them to publish) eligible for OA publishing under the agreement? |
No |
| Are fully open access journals covered by the agreement? | No |
| OA LICENSE | CC-BY preference, exceptions allowed |
| ARTICLE TYPES |
Original research articles Review articles |
| ACCESS COSTS
What is the approximate share of access related costs of the overall agreement? |
More than 50% |
| ACCESS COVERAGE
Are all read relevant journals covered by the agreement? |
Yes |
| PERPETUAL ACCESS RIGHTS | Partly (e.g. to core journals only) |
| WORKFLOW ASSESSMENT | Ok |
| OVERALL ASSESSMENT AND COMMENTS | The scope of the agreement (subscribed content and number of articles) is not sufficient due to the decrease of the funding in the last years |
| Request contact to the licensee | contact [at] esac-initiative [dot] org |