Societies and partnerships

Authors, editors and readers score Elsevier’s publishing support and services highly against market benchmarks. This is driven by Elsevier’s industry leading submission system; author and editor tools that save time whilst providing unique insight; first class production focused on quality and speed; and industry leading publishing platforms.

Elsevier’s unique, data-driven approach can help you to identify, solicit and acquire the best content, and ScienceDirect and our journal branded sites can provide that content with unrivaled visibility, profile, and market penetration worldwide.

As one of the world’s leading open access publishers Elsevier publishes over 750 full open access journals and has helped many societies embrace open access.

Elsevier is absolutely committed to meeting authors’ needs and has a wealth of experience in launching and flipping journals to open access; in developing subscription and open access portfolios for success; and in helping societies to respond to initiatives such as Plan S and OSTP, and grow through Transformative Agreements.

The ASBMB and PSA are just two societies that have recently made the switch to Elsevier and full gold open access.

We invest heavily for our partners in author, editor, reviewer and institutional outreach in high growth markets. For example, we have built a >20% market share in China at a quality level >40% higher than average. We continue to develop strategies to support Chinese researchers and independent surveys show that Chinese authors are more and increasingly satisfied with Elsevier’s services when compared with other publishers. We understand how these markets operate, have well established and growing offices in Beijing, Shenzhen, Chennai, and many more, and are well connected to key stakeholders.

We understand that a strong financial return is important to you and our financial agreements are based on maximizing your return, minimizing your risk and ensuring the long-term prosperity of your journal(s).

Through our global sales teams and unique infrastructure and resources we are able to maximize your revenues and share more royalties back to you. We are sensitive to your desire and need to manage financial risk. With you, we will take a long-term view, including underwriting financial offers and structuring terms to help you transition to new business models in a sustainable way.