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University of Cape Town Read & Publish Agreements: Elsevier_Science Direct Freedom Collection

This is a three-year (2023-2025) read and publish agreement with Elsevier for the ScienceDirect Freedom Collection.

The offer includes capped open access publishing in hybrid journals in the Freedom Collection at no extra cost to authors (that is, there are no article processing charges).

Gold open access titles: eligible corresponding authors will receive a discount of 15% on Elsevier’s gold open access portfolio of titles.

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The following article types are part of this agreement:

  • Case reports
  • Data in Briefs
  • Full-length articles
  • Micro-articles
  • Original software publication
  • Practice guidelines
  • Protocols
  • Review articles
  • Replication studies
  • Short communications
  • Short surveys
  • Video articles