The UT Southwestern Library's subscription agreement with Elsevier offers the following discounts on article processing charges (APCs):
Our Elsevier Subscription Agreement states that according to Schedule 3, Elsevier-Gold and Hybrid Open Access Pilot for The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center:
The single author who manages the publication process for an article from submission to post acceptance and corresponds with the Publisher on the same that is Corresponding authors affiliated with the UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER (“Institution”) shall be referred to as “Corresponding Author (s)” and are each granted the right during the term of the Agreement, as part of an Open Access Pilot (“Pilot”), to submit articles to any eligible journal title published by Elsevier, and if accepted for publication, to publish the article open access subject to a 15% (fifteen) discount on the article publishing charge (“APC”) for Gold core Elsevier journals and a 10% (ten) discount on the APC for Hybrid core Elsevier journals, based on the then current list price set forth at https://www.elsevier.com/books-and-journals/journal-pricing/apc-pricelist. Eligible titles include Elsevier-owned hybrid and fully gold journals, with the exception of Cell Press and The Lancet, and certain society titles. In certain limited cases the eligible titles may be subject to change, for example where Elsevier launches new fully gold open access journals that will be eligible for the Pilot or where titles transfer to another publisher and will no longer be eligible.
If the Gold OA option is selected, articles will be published under either a CC BY or CC-BY-NC-ND license as determined by the submitting corresponding author.
