| GENERAL INFORMATION | |
| Publisher | Elsevier |
| Agreement ID | els2026czelib |
| Agreement labeling | Elsevier Read and Publish agreement |
| Is the agreement document publicly available? | Yes |
| URL | https://smlouvy.gov.cz/smlouva/35900385 |
| Agreement period | 1/1/2026 – 12/31/2030 |
| Consortia / Institution | CzechELib |
| Country | Czech Republic |
| COST | |
| How do the costs of the agreement relate to the previous agreement with the publisher? | Cost increase |
| Describe how the cost model has changed from the previous agreement (e.g., move from subscription to R&P / from capped to uncapped / from single APC payments to flat fee, etc.) | Move from subscription to R&P |
| Read-access costs
If the agreement includes read access to subscription content, is a split of the cost between read access and publishing services defined? |
Yes |
| If a split of the cost between read access and publishing services is defined, what percentage of the overall agreement cost relates to read access? | More than 50% |
| PUBLISHING-RELATED TERMS | |
| Publication output
What is the approximate number of annual corresponding author publications from your institution/consortium with the publisher (in closed, hybrid and fully OA journals)? |
1700 |
| Is the agreement’s provision for OA publishing capped (e.g., limited to a specific number of articles per year) or uncapped? | Capped |
| What is the publication cap per year? | From 1100 in 2026 to 1293 in 2030 |
| Are APC-based full open access journals covered by the agreement? | No, only hybrid titles are included |
| Article types
Eligible article types |
Original research articles, Review articles, Letters, Case Report, Data in Brief, Full-length Article, Microarticle, Original Software Publication, Protocol, Replication Study, Short Communication, Short Survey |
| Risk sharing
What risk-sharing mechanisms exist in cases of exceeding or not reaching the anticipated number of OA publications under the agreement? |
Carrying tokens forward to the next year |
| Comments on publishing-related terms | Roll-over – only APCs to retroactively open articles from the previous year |
| READ ACCESS-RELATED TERMS | |
| Perpetual access
If the agreement includes read access to subscription content, are perpetual access (post cancellation/termination) rights included? |
Partly (e.g., to core journals only) |
| If perpetual access rights to subscription content is included, are there associated fees (for continued access to the platform, local hosting, data delivery, etc.)? | Yes |
| OA WORKFLOW | |
| Author workflow and verification
The date for articles’ eligibility is based on: |
Acceptance date |
| How do consortia or institutions verify author eligibility and approve OA funding? | Via publisher’s dashboard or third-party platform (pre-publication) |
| Does the agreement include mechanisms to correct mistakenly approved, missed, or not approved publications (e.g., retrospective OA conversion of closed articles or refunding paid APCs)? | Yes |
| Does the publisher’s reporting on publications satisfy the needs of your institution (frequency, metadata fields, data quality, etc.)? | Yes |
| Comments on publisher reporting | Reports from dashboard, including the opt-outs |
| May authors be charged additional publication fees (such as page charges, article development charges, etc.)? | Not part of the negotiations/not discussed |
| How would you assess the practical implementation of the agreement? | Ok |
| Comments on workflows | Approval workflow, no issues detected |
| PUBLISHING LICENSES | |
| Author’s licenses
Open access license types included |
CC BY variations allowed |
| Has the author workflow been customized to direct authors to a certain license (e.g., by making the option for CC BY the preselected default)? | No |
| In addition to the OA publishing provision, does the agreement include mechanisms to make author accepted manuscripts open access? | Yes |
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