This means that employees and students at Lund University will not have access to journal articles published by Elsevier after June 30, 2018. However, one can still read Elsevier articles published between 1995 and 30 June 2018. LU researchers can continue to publish articles and work editorial in Elsevier's journals.

In order to take steps towards the goal of immediate open access by 2026 set by the Swedish Government, the Bibsam Consortium has after 20 years decided not to renew the agreement with the scientific publisher Elsevier. To be able to make the necessary transition from a subscription-based to an open access publishing system the Bibsam Consortium requires:

• Immediate open access to all articles published in Elsevier journals by researchers affiliated to participating organisations
• Reading access for participating organisations to all articles in Elsevier’s 1,900 journals
• A sustainable price model that enables a transition to open access

The agreement will be cancelled 30th of June

Elsevier has not been able to present a model that meets the demands of the Bibsam Consortium and the current agreement will not be renewed after 30th of June.

Read the whole press release from National Library of Sweden

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Affected Elsevier journals

Elsevier journals with most downloads from Lund University 2017 (Top-20)

1. Journal of Cleaner Production
2. The Lancet
3. Cell 
4. Energy Policy
5. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews
6. Ecological Economics
7. Journal of Business Research
8. Combustion and Flame
9. Research Policy
10. World Development
11. Science of The Total Environment
12. Social Science & Medicine
13. Neuron
14. Water Research
15. Applied Energy
16. Bioresource Technology
17. Cell Stem Cell 
18. Computers in Human Behaviour
19. Immunity 
20. Current Biology 

Elsevier journals with most LU-affiliated articles 2017 (Top-20)

1.    Energy Procedia
2.    Journal of Cleaner Production
3.    Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
4.    European Urology
5.    Proceedings of the Combustion Institute
6.    The Lancet
7.    International Journal of Hydrogen Energy
8.    Resuscitation
9.    Cell Reports
10.  Food and chemical toxicology : an international journal published for the Brittish Industrial Biological Research Association

Please contact your Faculty library or Lund University Library at: publicera [at] lub [dot] lu [dot] se (publicera[at]lub[dot]lu[dot]se) for further information.