els2025galileo

Publisher

Elsevier
Agreement ID els2025galileo
Has the agreement been fully disclosed and published? No
Agreement period 01/01/2025 – 12/31/2029
Consortia / Institution GALILEO
Country United States
SIZE

Approximate range of annual corresponding author publications

 1500
Comments on size/article output Potential publications across all eligible members 1000+ in hybrid journals. Gold OA is not included, but would be another 300+ articles.
COSTS

How do the costs of the agreement relate to previous subscription-only agreements with the publisher?

 Cost decrease
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?

 Cap is projected based on anticipated output, and grows annually. Very low risk of exceeding cap based on current publication patterns and OA uptake by authors.
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 variations allowed
ARTICLE TYPES
 Original research articles
Review articles
Case reports
Data in Briefs
Micro-articles
Original software publication
Practice guidelines
Protocols
Replication studies
Short communications
Short surveys
Video 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 Prior to this agreement, there was an enormous gap between our subscription spending and the value of our open access publishing. There is still a sizeable gap, but the initial year makes considerable progress to bringing the publication value towards to the amount we spend. In the long term, more will need to be done to close the gap. The inflationary reductions should move the balance further in the right direction, but not on a timeline (i.e. several decades) that is satisfactory.
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