Open Access at CBS: Elsevier Agreement

For questions, please contact Claus Rosenkrantz Hansen and Lene Janussen Gry at oa@cbs.dk

Creative Commons licenses

Creative Commons licenses let users know how they can use your article without violating copyright.

See the CBS Library LibGuide page on Creative Commons licenses.

Elsevier and Open Access publishing

A new Elsevier agreement came into force in the beginning of 2025, and is valid until 31 December 2028. To CBS researchers, the agreement means that you can publish articles as Open Access at no cost in a number of Elsevier’s journals.

According to the agreement, the final version of an article can be published as Open Access under a Creative Commons license if it fulfills the agreement conditions. The publication costs are covered by the consortium agreement.

Agreement conditions

To publish Open Access at no cost, the following conditions need to be fulfilled:

• The article is submitted to the journal after 1 January 2025.
• Corresponding author is affiliated to Copenhagen Business School.
• The journal must be part of the agreement.

What to do as a researcher?

When your article is accepted for publication, you will receive an e-mail with a link to the “post-acceptance author journey”. To make sure that your article is published as Open Access at no cost, you need to fill out the form in the following way:

1. Choose ‘Copenhagen Business School’ as ‘Corresponding Author’s Organization’.
2. Choose ‘Gold OA’ to publish your article as Open Access without a publication fee.
3. Choose a Creative Commons license. You can choose between CC BY, and CC BY-NC-ND (if you have questions about Creative Commons licenses, please write to: oa@cbs.dk).

Please use your CBS e-mail address in the process.

For more information, or if you prefer video instructions, you can watch Elsevier’s instruction video with the title: “Gold Open Access: Central Funding Agreement”.

Which journals are part of the agreement?

The agreement includes most subscription-based journals. If you want to know if a specific journal is included in the agreement, you can look it up here.

Open Access journals (journals that are not subscription-based, and where all articles are published as Open Access) are not part of the agreement. If you publish in one of these journals, you will need to pay an Article Processing Charge (APC). You can see a list of Elsevier’s Open Access journals here.