Elsevier

In 2025, Danish Universities have entered into a four-year national agreement with the publisher Elsevier, dealing with publishing Open Access - among other things.

The agreement with Elsevier covers articles accepted from 1 January 2025 to 31 December 2028.

What to do
Once your research article has been accepted for publication in an Elsevier journal, it is important that you choose DTU as your institutional affiliation and use your corresponding DTU email address to publish under Elsevier's Open Access conditions.

• Use your DTU e-mail as the corresponding author
• State DTU as your institutional affiliation (Technical University of Denmark)
• Select Gold Open Access to publish your article without a publication fee
  NOTE! You select Gold Open Access even if you are publishing in a hybrid journal
• Select a CC-BY license (More on CC license)

Who qualifies as the corresponding author?

• The corresponding author of the accepted manuscript must be employed by or a student at the institution they have credited.
• It is possible for corresponding authors to have dual or multiple affiliations (e.g., with a university and a hospital, a university and a company, or two different universities), as long as one of these affiliations is with an institution that is part of the relevant agreement, and this institution is explicitly credited.
• Only the corresponding author's affiliation with DTU is decisive for publishing Open Access under the agreement.

Who does not qualify as the corresponding author?

• Corresponding authors who are, for example, emeritus professors, guest researchers, or otherwise affiliated cannot publish Open Access under the agreement.  
   

See the 9 steps for free Open Access publishing (pdf)

On Elsevier's website, you will find a series of instructional videos about Gold Open Access
How do I complete the Rights and Access form?

Journals included
As corresponding author, DTU researchers can publish Open Access free of charge in some of Elsevier's journals (Elsevier's subscription-covered hybrid Open Access journals).
NB! The corresponding author must be employed at DTU when the article is submitted.

Use this link to find journals where you can publish Open Access free of charge. Search for a specific journal title or see all journals on a list using the search button.
Elsevier journals where you can publish Open Access

That is:

• The author does not have to pay an article processing charge (APC)
• The article is published with a CC-BY license *
• The author retains copyright *
• The article (Published version) becomes immediately available as Open Access
• The article (Published version) can be archived in DTU Orbit without an embargo period

* Learn more about CC-BY license and copyright

Journals not included
Gold Open Access journals are not part of the Open Access Agreement with Elsevier. When publishing in Gold Open Access journals, you are, as usual, charged a publishing fee (APC) to publish your article as Open Access.