Clemson Libraries signs agreement with Elsevier

Clemson Libraries has signed a three-year contract with Elsevier, one of the world’s leading scientific publishers and data analytics companies, that will allow faculty, staff and students to not only access Elsevier’s large catalog of journals and articles, but will also allow Clemson researchers to publish their work in Elsevier’s open access journals.

The subscription includes access to ScienceDirect, which includes more than 5,300 journals and more than 36,370 books, as well as 2,900 other journals published by Elsevier. The open access publishing agreement will allow faculty and graduate student researchers to publish their work in Elsevier’s journals without paying the publishing charge that most journals require.

“The Libraries are continuously pursuing and negotiating agreements with publishers that benefit our students, faculty, and the broader academic community, by providing access to cutting edge research and open access publishing support,” said Ariel Turner, associate dean for collections and discovery. “We are particularly pleased with the terms of this agreement, which will result in substantial cost savings for the university and will provide publishing support for our researchers in core publications for years to come.”

Clemson has similar transformative agreements with other publishers, such as Cambridge University Press, Springer and Wiley. Click here to learn more.

The agreement is part of Clemson’s membership in the Carolina Consortium, a collaborative partnership among academic institutions in North and South Carolina.